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Within, a desultory chat had taken the place of movement and musical sound. The hedge-carpenter was suggesting a song to the company, which nobody just then was inclined to undertake, so that the knock afforded a not unwelcome diversion. 'Walk in! said the shepherd promptly. The latch clicked upward, and out of the night our pedestrian appeared upon the door-mat.
He behaves ill at Mass. He is at home, sitting on the ground, with his feet in his hands. He has just decided that the door-mat is a boat, and the tiled floor a river. He all but drowned in stepping off the carpet. He is surprised and a little put out that the others pay no attention to the matter as he does when he goes into the room. He seizes his mother by the skirts. "You see it is water!
Now one of the hardest problems of the elders of the world was presented to him. "You mean " he said, faintly. "I mean, Jim, that for the sake of other people, if not for your own sake, you ought to stop being a door-mat and be a man in this world of men." "What do you want me to do?" "I want you to go straight to those nieces of yours and tell them the truth.
Jack and his party got into the room, closed the shutters, lighted the candles, and ate and drank till hunger and thirst were gone. Then they lay down to rest; Jack in the bed, the ass in the stable, the dog on the door-mat, the cat by the fire, and the cock on the perch. At first the robbers were very glad to find themselves safe in the thick wood, but they soon began to get vexed.
But so great was the force of the fall and so hard the door-step that the poor dog was flattened out like a pancake, and could not move a bit. When the King came back he said: "Hullo! some kind friend has brought me a new door-mat as a present," and he leaned down and stroked the soft hair with much pleasure. Then he wiped his feet on the new mat and went into the palace to tell the Queen.
But my philosophy has not yet reached the acute stage that will enable me to see a door-mat in its true character as a hinderer of the development of souls, and I like to wipe my shoes.
And he had written on a sheet of paper the words: 'I am not to be disturbed before 10 a.m., no matter what happens; but call me at ten. H.; and had put the sheet of paper on Simon's door-mat. And then he had stumbled into bed, and abandoned himself to sleep not without reluctance, for he did not care to lose, even for a few hours, the fine consciousness of that sheer joy.
'Be so good as to give that card to Mr Tite Barnacle, and to say that I have just now seen the younger Mr Barnacle, who recommended me to call here. It required some judgment to do it without butting the inner hall-door open, and in the consequent mental confusion and physical darkness slipping down the kitchen stairs. The visitor, however, brought himself up safely on the door-mat.
Sophie still sat in her place; she held her paper with a firm hand, and turned the leaves at intervals. She looked up once as the party was passing out. Truesdale stepped over the door-mat rapidly, on the far side of Jane and Bertie and Mrs. Rhodes. He dropped his glove that he might stoop for it, and as he stooped he shot a rapid glance through the narrow door of the other room.
Ruth quietly shook the money out upon the door-mat, and said with a sudden sparkle in her black eyes, "It's doubtful if I bring any more. Better wait till I do." "I'm sorry your grandfather is sick. I'll come over and see him by-and-by, and bring the papers if he would like some," said the elderly gentleman as he came up with a friendly nod and real interest in his face.
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