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There came upon him again the feeling of the evening before, when he saw her standing in his doorway, the night about them, jealous affection, undying love, in her eyes. It quickened his steps imperceptibly. He passed a stream, and glanced down into a dark pool involuntarily. It reflected himself clearly. He stopped short.
As he spoke, the brown men were scuttling about, one unfastening the door of a little tower, which stuck as if it had not been opened for a long time, another darting into the house, which appeared silent and tenantless, a third and fourth running to a more distant part, and vanishing also through a dark doorway.
We'll know in the early morning how things are going to be. The child's got a splendid constitution." He was interrupted by the opening of the nursery door and, turning, the men saw Clare with the light of the passage at her back, standing in the doorway. Her cloak was trailing on the floor around her her pink filmy dress hung like shadows from the light behind her.
"Uncle John!" said Cardo in bewilderment, as he saw through the doorway the graceful white figure flit up the narrow stairs. "Uncle John! Can that be Captain Powell? Of course, old Essec's brother, no doubt. I have heard they are Pembrokeshire people." "Well, how is he getting on?" said the old man, as Valmai entered blushing.
Go to bed, and to-morrow go on with your work as usual. Grannis will be in charge while I'm gone," and without a backward glance the long figure returned to the ranch-house. The weazened foreman and the tall adventurer had been watching him impassively from the doorway. In silence they made room for him to pass. "Grannis," he asked directly, "have those horses been taken care of?" "No, sir."
He stopped in the doorway and leisurely drew forth his cigarette case. "Shall we wait for the explosion?" he asked without a sign of the emotion that had gone before. She gravely selected a cigarette from the case which he extended. As he lighted his own, he watched her draw from her little gold bag a diamond-studded case, half filled.
They gazed about. The coast was clear; and they darted into the door which had been indicated in the diagram. Samuel crouched in the doorway, motionless, while the other worked at the lock. Samuel's knees were trembling so that he could hardly stand up. The door was opened without a sound having been made, and they stole into the entrance. They listened the house was as still as death.
He knelt again by the rough sill and kissed the doorway of the house of pain, the house of life; and his soul flamed into prayer to whatsoever Principle or Power wrought the mysteries of the ever-changing universe. And for hours, keeping all far away, he held his vigil; and the stars watched above him, too, mysterious and far. But with the coming of the dawn, hark! a cry within!
Julia decreed that she and Johnny were to do that, then unthinkingly she sent her assistant for a tea-cloth. Rawson-Clew was standing by the doorway when Johnny passed; he followed him out. "Mr. Gillat, your plants want watering," he said, quietly but decisively. "They do, they do," Johnny agreed; "I will have to do them by and by." "Do them now, it is getting late." "It is," Mr.
"Oh, I do hope so. I want just once to meet him and hear him talk." "Even if his voice has a falsetto crack in it?" Billy inquired. "Even if he's dumb!" Cicely's climax was lost in a burst of laughter, in the midst of which she fled from the table. "Never you mind!" she proclaimed from the doorway. "I'll find a way to meet him yet.
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