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Updated: September 14, 2025
The broad doorway had been partly filled in with unseasoned deal, and an inexpensive door had been fitted up. The bell-knob was of brass, new and glaring in the morning sun. The gentleman from London, having alighted, took gently hold of this and rang. A faint tinkle rewarded him. It was the peculiar sound of a bell ringing in an empty house.
But Flora draws us on, she and Anna. As she touched the bell-knob Constance sprang out to welcome her, though not to ask her in till she could have a word with her alone, the young wife explained. "I saw you coming," she said, drawing her out to the balustrade. "You didn't get Anna's note of last night too bad! I've just found out her maid forgot it!
Lindau could probably find as cheap a lodging in some decenter part of the town; and, in fact, there was some amelioration of the prevailing squalor in the quieter street which he turned into from Mott. A woman with a tied-up face of toothache opened the door for him when he pulled, with a shiver of foreboding, the bell-knob, from which a yard of rusty crape dangled.
Then, for involuntarily he now did everything running, with a dash up the steps he seized the sullen pendant bell-handle, and worked it pumpwise, till he perceived a smaller bell-knob beside the door, at which he worked piston- wise.
"It's our just having come in from the sunshine makes it seem dark. It's getting lighter. Cheer up! It's good for you." "It'll make me lose three pounds, I shouldn't wonder." They spoke in whispers, because when they had pulled the bell-knob and the door had swung open, a voice from incalculable altitudes had shouted, "Chi è?"
However, she pulled the loose bell-knob and was admitted to a dingy, dusty hallway by a maid so redolent of stale perspiration that it was noticeable even in the hall's strong saturation of smells of cheap cookery.
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