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One would have thought him endowed with the gift of multiplying himself; for he was inevitably seen wherever she was, leaning against the door-frame, or resting his elbow on the mantlepiece, his eyes fixed upon her. And, when she did not see him, she felt his looks still weighing her down.
"What are you doing here and alone?" Mrs. Holbury stood leaning limply against the door-frame. She was in evening dress, and a wrap, glistening with the shimmer of silver, drooped loosely about her gleaming shoulders. "It's over," she declared in a passionate and unprefaced outburst. "I can't stand it! I'm done with him! I've left him!" Stuart spread his hands in dumfounded amazement.
I thought he had forgotten me, he was so engrossed in his handiwork. "Lat colla?" he mused by-and-by. "Lat's Mista Minista, boy." "Mister Minister Malden?" And there both of us stared a little, for there was a voice at the door. "Yes? Yes? What is it?" Minister Malden stood with his head and shoulders bent, wary of the low door-frame, and his eyes blinking in the new light.
Stronger than fear, curiosity had drawn all the guests of the cashier of the Mutual Credit Society, M. Desormeaux, M. Chapelain, M. Desclavettes himself; and, standing within the door-frame, they followed eagerly every motion of the commissary, who, pending the arrival of the locksmith, was making a flying examination of the bundles of papers left exposed upon the desk.
What if the Professor, that old prowler, should come along and find him, peeping in through Bunker's open door? What if the ray of light which struck out through the door-frame should reveal him to the singer within? And yet he was curious to see her. Since his first brusque refusal to go in and meet her, Bunker had not mentioned his daughter again perhaps he remembered what was said.
Rae, driven to desperation, hurled a law book of some weight at his vanishing head. "The de'il take ye! Ye'll be my deith yet." The book went crashing against the door-frame just as Miss Brodie was about to enter. "I say," she cried, darting back. "Heaven protect me! Rob, save me!" Rob sprang to her side. She stood for a moment gazing aghast at Mr. Dunn, who gazed back at her in equal surprise.
Now what we're going to do came out of a book. I read it when I was a kid, and it will work. Come on." Several minutes later, under a pale-gleaming, greenish aurora borealis, the two men crept up to Amos Wentworth's cabin. Carefully and noiselessly they poured kerosene over the logs, extra-drenching the door-frame and window-sash.
Black hands were thrust through the hole, and the Hottentot hacked and cut at them with the spear. But others came, more than he could pierce, and the whole door-frame began to be dragged outwards. "Now, Marie, be ready," I gasped, lifting the pistol. "Oh, Christ receive me!" she answered faintly. "It won't hurt much, will it, Allan?"
Not that I think anything great of a standard the like of that: for if they had set me in that door-frame at the age of twenty, it is like enough that I should have walked away with it on my shoulders, though I was not come to my full strength then: only I am speaking now of the average size of our neighbourhood, and the Doones were far beyond that.
"Poor Lady Johnson," she said, resting her head against her hand on the door-frame, and looking upon the advancing troops with a weary expression of face. "Her trouble is coming mine is past." Then, after a pause: "Will they be harsh with Sir John, think you? I trust not. They have both been kind to me since since Philip went. Sir John is not bad at heart, Douw, believe me.
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