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Updated: September 16, 2025
He would have flung himself on the doorkeepers, for he was losing control of himself; but as he drew back for the spring, a hand clutched his sleeve, and a voice he loathed hummed in his ear. "No, fair play, noble sir; fair play!" the cripple Jehan muttered, forcibly drawing him aside. "All start together, and it's no man's loss.
One of these ornaments of the vestry complained to the doorkeepers, and denounced the lecture as an imposition; "and," said the wealthy parishioner, "as for the panorama, it's the worst painted thing I ever saw in all my life!" But the entertainment, original, humorous, and racy though it was, was drawing to a close! In the fight between youth and death, death was to conquer.
She had got herself separated from the rest of her party and she was wandering along about alone, seeking information regarding the whereabouts of the Farnese Bull from smiling but uncomprehending custodians and doorkeepers. These persons she would address at the top of her voice.
Of course, we brought the two doorkeepers to the same room, so that you should experience no difficulty, but take them all together." Here Mr. Won Lung Foo broke in. Evidently he could follow English better than speak it. "Yes," he said. "We wantee you catchee Chineemans all togeller muchee wantee!"
'O, we have a practical remedy for the theoretical absurdity. One or two of the judges act upon such occasions as prompters and assessors to their own doorkeepers. Mac-Morlan will stare when he sees the bill. 'Never fear, said the Colonel, 'we'll face the shock, and entertain the county at my friend Mrs. Mac-Candlish's to boot.
When Zubeideh saw that her plot had succeeded, she put me in this chest and summoning the slaves, bribed them and the doorkeepers, and sent the former to do with me as thou sawest. So my delivery was at thy hands, and thou broughtest me hither and hast used me with the utmost kindness. This is my story, and I know not what is come of the Khalif in my absence.
He came in with just as much sangfroid as he displayed when he had ridden through the rebellious city. He inquired of the doorkeepers as he passed through whether his messengers had arrived yet with the tulips. "No," was the reply. "Then where have they got to, I wonder," he muttered; "since I quitted them I have been from one end of Stambul to the other?"
"Every council being adorned with a state for the signory, shall be attended by two secretaries, two doorkeepers, and two messengers-in-ordinary, and have power to command more upon emergencies, as occasion requires.
The men saluted with their pikes and halberds. At the end of the gallery shone a large door, so magnificent that its two folds seemed to be masses of gold. On each side of the door there stood, upright and motionless, men who were called doorkeepers. Just before you came to this door, the gallery widened out into a circular space.
His lordship rapped smartly with his gavel. "Silence!" he cried, "or I will have the room cleared!" But the noise came nearer. "Officer, what is the trouble outside?" demanded the bench. The two doorkeepers with great hands were pressing back a threatened irruption from the corridor. One spoke over his shoulder.
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