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She insisted on returning re-entered the house, and was coming down stairs with one under each arm, when she was met by my father and two servants. When my father was convinced of his loss, he called for his dressing-gown searched the garret and the kitchen looked in the maid's drawers and the cellaret and finally declared he was distracted.
The man in the fez, tearing himself away from the cellaret, crosses the salon majestically, whispers, goes away and returns with an inkstand and a check-book, the leaves of which come out and fly away of themselves. What a fine thing is wealth! To sign a check for two hundred thousand francs on his knee costs Jansoulet no more than to take a louis from his pocket.
The blood in his throbbing temples sang a dull, tuneless song. But presently he became aware of another kind of singing. It was a little hissing voice that came from the inside of the oak-and-silver cellaret. And it sang a song that the man who sat near had never heard before.
Kendal put his hand into his pocket and gave her the key. She was instantly opening the cellaret, seeking among the bottles, and asking questions all the time. She proposed taking a jug of the kitchen-tea then in operation, and Mr. Dusautoy caught at the idea, so that poor Lucy beheld the dreadful spectacle of the vicar bearing a can full of steaming tea, and Mrs.
"Let me!" she said gently. So he surrendered pipe and pouch and, watching, saw that her hands trembled also; when at last she had filled the pipe, he took it and laid it on the table. "Aren't you going to smoke, dear?" "No, not now. You'll remember that Arthur also suggested you should " "Give you something to drink!" she added a little breathlessly and crossed to the cellaret in the corner.
Drink, I say, and you will be able to laugh at the One and the two...." The little hissing voice drove Saxham mad. He leaped up, frenzied, oversetting the chair. He tore open and threw wide the doors of the oak-and-silver cellaret, and sought in it with shaking hands.
In the strength of it he rose, went to the cellaret, and poured himself out a glass of his favourite port, which he sat down to drink in silence and meditation.
In the excitement, Albinia utterly forgot all scruples about 'Bluebeard's closet. She hurried into the house, and made but one dash, standing before her astonished husband's dreamy eyes, exclaiming, 'Pray give me the key of the cellaret; there's a poor man just come home, fainting with exhaustion, Mr. Dusautoy wants some brandy for him. Like a man but half awake, obeying an apparition, Mr.
The only fact at present apparent was, that the crowd was every moment increasing. Hester was stooping over the cellaret in the room where they had dined, when a tremendous crash startled her, and a stone struck down the light which stood beside her, leaving her in total darkness. Philip came to her in a moment.
Coe, still in the arm-chair into which she had first sunk, here closed her eyes; either the faintness of which she had complained was coming on again, or she did not wish to meet the other's searching gaze. There was a long pause, during which Mrs. Basil went to the cellaret, and pouring out a glass of sherry, put it to her tenant's lips.
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