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Brook desires to 'spare' you," Vanderbank kindly replied, "the best way to make sure of it would perhaps indeed be to remove you. But hadn't we a hope of Nanda?" "It might be of use for us to wait for her?" it was still to his young friend that Mr. Longdon put it. "Ah when she's once on the loose !" Mrs. Brookenham sighed. "Unless la voila," she said as a hand was heard at the door-latch.
"I don't see how Sally endures this sort of thing," she thought, for the hundredth time since the Lane house, near her own in Grosvenor Place, had been sold. The door-latch clicked promptly in answer to her ring, and at the top of the third flight she met Sally. "I was sure it was you! I'm so glad!
She skipped to the tiny turret which rose above our heads, and lifted the door-latch. But, instead of disappearing within, she turned and looked at me in white dismay. The door was bolted. Her look roused what there was of manhood in me. I felt that, as it had now come to the last gasp, it was mine to comfort her. 'We are no worse than we were, I said. 'Never mind.
"Good-bye, little girl," said Mr Shank, as he stood with his hand on the door-latch; "you'll come again soon?" "If Aunt Sally sends me; but you must promise not to accuse Ned wrongfully. Good-bye!" answered Mary, as she stepped over the threshold, the old man immediately closing and bolting the door. Ned, who had been on the watch at a little distance, sprang forward to meet her.
She observed with interest the thick, wavy gray of his hair, which contradicted pleasantly the youthfulness of his clean-shaven, resolute face, and the spare, yet well-muscled form. The clicking of the door-latch sounded soon, and the two entered, and went slowly up three flights of stairs.
"Think what you must," she said lifelessly: "it doesn't matter, so long as you renounce me, put me out of your heart and leave me." Without other response, he leaned forward and tapped the glass; and as the cab swung in toward the curb, he laid hold of the door-latch. "Lucy," he pleaded, "don't let me go believing " She seemed suddenly infused with implacable hostility.
"There is nothing more to say, now or hereafter. We have had, I trust, our last conversation. I hate you. I could wish you all the unhappiness that life can give, but I am not such a beast as to tell your daughter what kind of a woman you are. So there's the end. Good-day, Rachel Carter." He turned away, his hand was on the door-latch, before she spoke again.
When Ann Eliza, in later days, looked back on that afternoon she felt that there had been something prophetic in the quality of its solitude; it seemed to distill the triple essence of loneliness in which all her after-life was to be lived. No purchasers came; not a hand fell on the door-latch; and the tick of the clock in the back room ironically emphasized the passing of the empty hours.
Adam reached it in a quarter of an hour after leaving the Hall Farm; and when he had his hand on the door-latch, he could see, through the curtainless window, that there were eight or nine heads bending over the desks, lighted by thin dips. When he entered, a reading lesson was going forward and Bartle Massey merely nodded, leaving him to take his place where he pleased.
If I hear him coming, I will fasten the door-latch; and if he puts his hand in, I will cut it off with my ax. I will take care of you, Almira." The wise creature raised its beautiful eyes to the boy, and wagged its tail gently on the ground; then it sighed, as if understanding all that was said. Noémi stopped spinning, leaned her head on her hand, and looked into the flickering lamp.
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