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Updated: June 11, 2025
Suddenly I heard some one turn our door-knob from without. My mother and the woman hushed their talk, and both looked toward the door. It opened gradually. I waited behind the stove. The hinges squeaked as the door was slowly, very slowly pushed inward. Then in rushed the devil! He was tall! He looked exactly like the picture I had seen of him in the white man's papers.
Crows cawed in the trees on the eastern edge of the strip of meadowland, and on high soared two or three big birds, hawks or buzzards, he knew not which, circling slowly in the arc of the steel blue sky. Confident that he was unobserved, he made his way up the half-buried walk to the porch, and, deliberately mounting the steps, tried the door-knob. As he expected, the door was locked.
"And now be off again to your friends the Ephesians," he said; "only remember that if you or they or their dog either, poor beasty wants anything, it's only needed to touch this electric bell. As to the doggy," he added, with his hand on the door-knob, "tell him to poke at the button with the tip of his foolish nose." And with that he opened the door and went away.
The goat was not hurt, but Dicky had a sprained thumb and a lump on his head like a black marble door-knob. He had to go to bed. I will draw a veil and asterisks over what Mrs Pettigrew said. Also Albert's uncle, who was brought to the scene of ruin by her screams. Few words escaped our lips. There are times when it is not wise to argue; however, little what has occurred is really our fault.
Ferguson made as if he would go back to the library, but stopped with his hand on the door-knob; once Miss White said brokenly, "The boy must have some breakfast"; but still they left him to himself. After a while, Cherry-pie sat down on the stairs and cried softly.
LÍPOCHKA and LÁZAR do so. AGRAFÉNA KONDRÁTYEVNA. Ah, my little doves! How in the world did it happen! I declare I've quite lost my head. "Whoever heard or saw such things? The elephant's learning to fly with wings; The hen laid a door-knob instead of an egg; And piggy is dancing a jig on a keg!" She pours out wine and goes up to RISPOLÓZHENSKY; RISPOLÓZHENSKY bows and declines the wine.
"Me doesn't like nasty old dress," she explained, with a dazzling smile that was a justification in itself; "me likes pretty new dress!" and then, with one hand reaching up to the door-knob, and the other throwing disarming kisses to Samantha, "By-by! Lady Gay go circus now! Timfy, come, take Lady Gay to circus!"
You will say, "I find that I can actually do what I want to and can drive foreign thoughts out. The exercise, I can now see, is valuable." 10 P. M. 4th Day. "I found that I could look at the door-knob and concentrate my attention on it at once. Have overcome the tendency to move my legs.
He kissed her hilariously, entered his room with a skip, closed his door noisily; and then he could be heard tossing things about, loudly humming "The Man that Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo." Smiling, his mother knelt outside his door to pray; then, with her "Amen," pressed her lips to the bronze door-knob; and went silently to her own apartment.
He put his hand on the door-knob, but she knew he would not go, and he turned back with a sheepish grin. "What do the folks think about this?" he inquired casually, and Wilhelmina made a face. "They think I'm just awful!" she confessed. "But I don't care I'm tired of being poor." "Don't reckon there'll be another cloudburst, do you, about the time you get your road built?"
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