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In this note I mentioned that I should be absent but for a few days. I went to Treviso, to Bassano, to Castelfranco; I took walks and drives and looked at musty old churches with ill-lighted pictures and spent hours seated smoking at the doors of cafes, where there were flies and yellow curtains, on the shady side of sleepy little squares.
For now, since the putting up of the curtains, the window had been bolted as well as closed. So Bell got up, and opened a passage for the squire's entrance. It was not often that he came down in this way, and when he did do so it was generally for some purpose which had been expressed before. "What! fires already?" said he.
Then, as he stood there, he saw for the first time a thin line of light through the closely-drawn curtains of a room on the ground floor of the adjoining house. Without a moment's hesitation, he crossed the road and rang the bell. The door was opened, after a trifling delay, by a man in plain clothes, who might, however, have been a servant in mufti. He looked at Tavernake suspiciously.
"Come awa, sir!" The young man followed his host across the hall and into the dining room. It was a big, rag-carpeted room; a large easy chair was set beside the long table and a number of newspapers were strewn about. The evening breeze blew in cool and sweet, setting the stiff, white curtains swaying and bringing the refreshing scent of the river. "No, jist ye set doon here, Mr.
"I will give you until to-morrow," he answered. Barbara curtsied low and turned to the door. Rosmore drew back the curtains for her, and as she passed out whispered: "I love you, sweetheart. Say 'Yes' to-morrow." "Will she consent, think you?" Sir John asked as Rosmore came slowly back across the room. "I think so; yes, I think so." "I spoke sufficiently?" questioned Sir John.
They were obliged to furnish large sums to the whole garrison, paying every common foot- soldier twelve stivers a day and the officers in proportion, while the great Eletto demanded, beside his salary, a coach and six, a state bed with satin curtains and fine linen, and the materials for banquetting sumptuously every day.
Then a door was closed and immediately the curtains were thrown open and a peon woman stood in the door. "Oh!" she exclaimed, upon seeing Adrian sitting up and looking at her. "Then you are not dead?" "I should say not. Did you think I was?" "I was afraid so." "Why?" "Because your death might be laid at my door." "Evidently she hasn't discovered I am an American," thought Adrian.
In another moment, she had glided softly but swiftly from her seat, and, unnoticed by the other occupants of the box, followed him, dropping the curtains silently after her.
I have seen all kinds of ghosts: black spirits and white, red spirits and grey. Some in the shapes of venerable old men, who have met me in my rambles at noon; some of beautiful young women, who have peeped through my curtains at midnight. And have proved, I doubt not, 'palpable to feeling as to sight. By no means, sir. You reflect upon my purity.
I felt that I was lost that it would be impossible for me to get to the cabin and hide before he reached the companion-way, alarmed as he would be by the sound, and looking frantically round I was for leaping into the cot and drawing the curtains, but another thought struck me just as I heard his step, and lifting the lid of the locker beneath the window, I slipped in upon the flags, and let the cover down and shut me in.
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