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Updated: May 24, 2025
After passing through the floor into the attic, and thence out through the dormer-window, they had to crawl over about eighty feet of shingle-roof not slippery at all, nor particularly steep along the ridge, except where they had to descend a little to circumvent the chimney-stacks; this brought them to another dormer, giving admission to a house in the same block of building, but not connected with the prison.
Her eyes wandered down the street that lay shadowy with gable, and dormer-window, and long chimneys, in sharp geometric figures in the moonshine, alternating with the deeper shadow of the trees. There were no lights save a twinkle here and there in an upper window. A flush rose to his pale cheeks. His heart was beating fast with heavy presage.
Boardman, I'm done for. Yesterday I was the happiest fellow in the world, and now Yes, it's all over with me, and it's my own fault, as usual. Look; at that!" He jerked Boardman a note which he had been holding fast in his band, and got up and went to look himself at the wide range of chimney-pots and slated roofs which Boardman's dormer-window commanded. "Want me to read it?"
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.
There were only two rooms up-stairs in the little army house, each with its big closet, a door connecting the two, and others opening out on the narrow landing above the stairs; each with its sharply sloping roof and dormer-window.
No one pays any heed to the hand-organ man and his wife as they climb to their attic. There is a colony of them up there three families in four rooms. "Come in, Antonio," says the tenant of the double flat, the one with two rooms, "come and keep Christmas." Antonio enters, cap in hand. In the corner by the dormer-window a "crib" has been fitted up in commemoration of the Nativity.
They had sustained no other damage, however, than that of scratching nearly all the skin off their hands. That night, Thenardier was warned, without any one being able to explain how, and was not asleep. Towards one o'clock in the morning, the night being very dark, he saw two shadows pass along the roof, in the rain and squalls, in front of the dormer-window which was opposite his cage.
There isn't a crook, or a turn, or a tin-roof, or a dormer-window, or a gray stone in it that isn't precious." Mr. Arbuton laughed. "Well, you shall be sovereign lady of Quebec for me. Shall we have the English garrison turned out?" "No; not unless you can bring back Montcalm's men to take their places."
There, dimly visible against the southern sky, its base on the plank walk below him, its top resting upon the eaves midway between the dormer-window and the roof of the piazza, so that one could step easily from it into the one or on to the other, was the very ladder that half an hour before was lying on the ground behind the house. His heart stood still.
Still less than before attuned to the lugubrious session downstairs, she went straight up to her attic, and did a little dance there in the dark. She threw open the lattice of the dormer-window, and leaned out, smiling, throbbing. The Emperors, gazing up, saw her happy, and wondered; saw Noaks' ring on her finger, and would fain have shaken their grey heads.
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