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Updated: June 2, 2025
"He'll come in at the window, the New Year will," said Mr. Maynard as he flung the casement wide open. "The old year is going. Bid him good-bye, children, you'll never see him again. Good-bye, old year, good-bye!" "Good-bye, old year, good-bye!" they all said in concert, and murmured it again, as the last seconds flew steadily by. "Happy New Year!" shouted Mr.
But, standing there at the casement, Barnabas watched him presently stride away towards a new world, upright of figure and with head carried high like one who is full of confident purpose. Being come to the end of the drive he turned, flourished his shabby hat and so was gone. "Gracious heavens he's actually up and dressed! Oh Lud, Barnabas, what does this mean?"
But if discovered; " and Savelli, who, fortunately for his foes, had not nerves equal to his will, covered his face and shuddered; "I think I hear a noise! no is it the wind? tush, it must be old Vico de Scotto, turning in his shell of mail! silent I like not that silence! No cry no sound! Can the ruffian have played us false? or could he not scale the casement?
There was first a small chamber, which he called my father's study, in truth, it would have done for any philosopher or saint who wished to shut out the world, and might have passed for the interior of such a column as the Stylites inhabited; for you must have climbed a ladder to have looked out of the window, and then the vision of no short-sighted man could have got over the interval in the wall made by the narrow casement, which, after all, gave no other prospect than a Cumberland sky, with an occasional rook in it.
As I stole towards her, my glance fell on a book that lay on a chair near the casement and beside those relics of an infancy once pure and serene. By the old-fashioned silver clasps I recognized Roland's Bible. I felt as if I had been almost guilty of profanation in my thoughtless intrusion.
Even the wild gales of the equinox have their varieties, sounds of wind-shaken woods and waters, creak and clatter of sign and casement, hurricane puffs and down-rushing rain-spouts.
Emily then seated herself at the casement, where she was soon recalled from the reverie, into which she sunk, by very unusual sounds, not of music, but like the low mourning of some person in distress. As she listened, her heart faltered in terror, and she became convinced, that the former sound was more than imaginary.
Once convinced of this, he dropped down, stealthily, and lay full length on the balcony flooring, with his ear close against the casement woodwork, listening. Reasonably satisfied, he rose to his knees, and took from his vest pocket a small diamond ring. Holding this firmly between his thumb and forefinger, he described a semi-circle on the heavy window-glass. He listened again, intently.
At length, on the corner of a narrow lane, through which he was passing, he beheld the broad countenance of a British hero swinging before the door of an inn, whence proceeded the voices of many guests. The casement of one of the lower windows was thrown back, and a very thin curtain permitted Robin to distinguish a party at supper, round a well-furnished table.
A small iron casement between two of the mullions was open, and some occasional words of the dialogue were audible without. 'As for drains how can I put in drains? The pipes don't cost much, that's true; but the labour in sinking the trenches is ruination.
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