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Updated: May 24, 2025
Now, honey-child, you ain't got nothing to do but frill out your own sweet self; and make a job of it while you are about it." With which command Mother Mayberry dismissed Miss Wingate up the stairs to her dormer-window room. And it is safe to say that no two such teeming hours ever fleeted their seconds away on Providence Road as did those ensuing.
The usual gait, when all was said, was by far the best.... All alone like this, up here.... Should I go down and beg father's pardon? Then 'twould all be over and done with.... "No!" said something inside me, "I stay here!" And I stayed. I shoved a box under the dormer-window, I pushed open the wooden shutter ... and there! Before me lay the wide stretch in the blazing sunlight!
The tiniest pane in the topmost dormer-window glittered without a spot. The poorest were clad in costly finery; the patrician folk were in the dress of knights and nobles; every craftsman was arrayed as though he were a councillor, every squire like his lord. You would have weened that day that there were none but rich folk in Nuremberg.
Arsene Lupin may have been, also, the person who saved so many lives through the little dormer-window at the Charity Bazaar; and, at the same time, picked their pockets."
If it had not been that, when he was kneeling at the rude dormer-window of his loft and gazing dreamily across the wide sweep of sand, with the moon shining across it and the solemn stars lighting up the sky, he was at times vaguely conscious of an influence, almost a presence, as of a hand that touched him and a voice that spoke to him, he must have sunk under this intense longing for love and fellowship.
"By your leave, sir, you must go to them lads." The Parson was tearing off coat and cravat. "I'm going.... I'll slip out of the dormer-window so as to leave the door shut." He sped up the ladder, and down again in a twinkling. "Here are the despatches! If I go down, it'll take em ten minutes to rush the place and give you time to burn the papers.
My eyes were quite blind with it. 'Twas good up here and funny to see everything from so high up, so endlessly far! And the people were no bigger than tiny tadpoles! Just under my dormer-window came a path, a white sand-path winding from behind the house and then running forwards to the horizon in a line straight as an arrow.
Even the shade was hot with a sort of closeness unknown in the open air, yet as it dwindled to noontide proportions some alleviation seemed withdrawn; and though the mercury marked no change, all the senses welcomed the post-meridian lengthening of the images of bough and bole beneath the trees, and the fantastic architecture of the shadows of chimney and gable and dormer-window, elongated out of drawing, stretching across the grassy streets and ample gardens.
The stage "business" had not yet been settled; it had been impossible to do so before the setting of the stage was completed. It was now discovered that the measurements had been wrongly taken, and the dormer-window was not accessible. The author leapt on to the stage. "Romilly, my friend, the stove is not in the place fixed on. How can you expect Chevalier to get out through the dormer-window?
Although the town had a rural aspect, with its quaint dormer-window houses, its straggling lanes and roads, and the water-pumps in the middle of the streets, it had the aspirations of a city, and already much of the metropolitan air. These were the surroundings in which the boy's literary talent was to develop.
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