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Updated: May 31, 2025
There is a spiral staircase within one of its immense limbs; and, climbing steadily upward, lighted by a lantern which the doorkeeper's wife gave us, we had a bird's-eye view of Paris, much obscured by smoke or mist. Several interminable avenues shoot with painful directness right towards it.
With a careful, deft, accustomed movement he thrust a gold piece into the doorkeeper's hand, who was already holding it behind his back, ready and folded in the form of a little boat.
The other day I heard a Captain explaining how he was "conscripted" into The Army at ten years of age. He was standing outside the door of one of our Halls on an evening when children were not admitted. He had tried, in vain, boylike, to dodge through the doorkeeper's legs but a drunken woman came up and not only insisted on getting in, but on dragging him in "to keep her company."
It was the doorkeeper's attendant that broke in upon the scene, pausing a moment in doubt, as his eyes followed his master's rapid strides. Finally, approaching Agathocles, he plucked him by the sleeve and whispered: "The woman desires to know of the health of my lord." Before the physician could answer, Sergius had caught the words, and, wheeling about, faced the boy.
"I never heard the name, did you?" "You know him, Ned," said the doorkeeper's wife; "him as Mr. Gaspard used to go about with." By a sudden common impulse, the eyes of the two men met; the woman went off to brew them a pot of tea, and left them fearfully gazing at one another. "What stuff!" said the watchmaker uneasily. "It was only his blow.
Tomaso, before the day was over, changed his garments and abandoned crutch and stick, and when he turned out with flaxen-dyed hair and spectacles, and presented himself at the other great entrance of the prison, as a German traveller who desired to go over the place, no one could possibly have imagined it to be the old cripple whose paternal lamentation had so touched the doorkeeper's heart.
A Sister of Charity was watching beside him, and she seemed so surprised and anxious at the arrival of a visitor whom she did not know, that Pierre understood she was there to guard the dying man and prevent him from having intercourse with others. The old priest must have employed some stratagem in order to send the doorkeeper's boy to fetch him.
In the afternoon to church again, and heard drowsy Mr. Graves, and so to see Sir W. Pen, who continues ill in bed, but grows better and better every day. Thence to Sir W. Batten's, and there staid awhile and heard how Sir R. Ford's daughter is married to a fellow without friends' consent, and the match carried on and made up at Will Griffin's, our doorkeeper's.
She went off at eight o'clock preceded by Le Duc, who had orders to greet the doorkeeper's family on my behalf. At Magnan's I had a dinner worthy of Lucullus, and I promised to stay with him whenever I passed Chamberi, which promise I have faithfully performed. On leaving the gourmand's I went to the convent, and M M came down alone to the grating.
And it was with the same automatical step that he entered the doorkeeper's room to take his key. 'I have given it to that lady, called Madame Joseph from the back of the room. 'She is upstairs. 'What lady? he asked in bewilderment. 'That young person. Come, you know very well, the one who always comes. He had not the remotest idea whom she meant.
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