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Updated: June 19, 2025
Gertrude asked one evening when her sister came up from a half-hour's interview with some one in the parlor. "The gentleman who rents my house," Susan replied, her face turned from Gertrude. "What is he for ever coming here for?" "He came to tell me that there were some screws loose in a door-hinge," Susan answered. "For pity's sake!" exclaimed Gertrude.
Wonder what Mr Lacey would say if I was to tell him all I know." "What do you mean?" "Oh, nothing, sir. I dunno what he'd say; but I think I know what he'd do scrunch Mr Mark like a walnut in a door-hinge!" "Look here, I don't want to hear any scandal, Jerry. There, that will do! I'll give you a shilling as soon as I have one." "Thank ye; but don't.
One of our most lavish singers all summer long is the indigo bunting; yet when he first came back from the South he was very shy, and his voice seemed to be out of tune, so that, even when he tried to sing, which was seldom, his effort sounded like the creaking of a rusty door-hinge. Afterwards, however, when he got the cobwebs out of his larynx, he made up for all his previous silence.
There were bolts on the door, but the upper one alone could be pushed home. With this in its place felt secure from spies. Yet not too secure. I was not certain that the bulkheads were without crannies from which I could be watched. The crack by the door-hinge might, for all I knew, give a very good view of the inside of the cabin.
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