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Updated: May 27, 2025
As I approached, the moon once more had broken out of the clouds, and shone dimly upon the wet, glittering slates and windows, with a death-like lustre, that gradually faded away as I left the point of observation, and entered the folding-door. It was the parish chapel.
In the vestibule I looked through a half-open folding-door, and, in the funereal darkness, saw some peasantry kneeling and praying. No head was raised to look at me. I slowly entered the room with my eyes downcast, and lids swollen with tears I forcibly restrained.
On one side the tumult of common pleasure, on the other, the delicate silence of happy souls, earth and heaven! But Ginevra was not wholly free from the weaknesses of women. Superstitious as an Italian, she saw an omen in this contrast, and in her heart there lay a sense of terror, as invincible as her love. Suddenly the office servant, in the town livery, opened a folding-door.
If either Erasmus or I ever build a house of our own we shall eschew the hardwood-floor heresy as we would a pest. There is another evil which I am at this moment reminded of, and that is the folding-door evil. In all my experience I have never met with another door as honest, sensible, and trustworthy as the door that swings on hinges.
"Ah, the good marquis!" cried the princess, rising from her reclining position. "Conduct him in, he is very welcome." The lackey opened both wings of the folding-door, and the marquis entered, followed by several servants with boxes and packets. "Ah, you come very much like a milliner," laughingly exclaimed Elizabeth, graciously advancing to receive the ambassador.
An instant's after-reflection induced her to move her seat toward the left hand, so as to place herself just inside, and close against, the left post of the folding-door. In this position she dexterously barred the only passage by which Mrs. Lecount could have skirted round the large table and contrived to front Magdalen by taking a chair at her master's side.
"Oh, prefer? oh yes queer word. I never use it myself. But, sir, as I was saying, if he would but prefer " "Turkey," interrupted I, "you will please withdraw." "Oh certainly, sir, if you prefer that I should." As he opened the folding-door to retire, Nippers at his desk caught a glimpse of me, and asked whether I would prefer to have a certain paper copied on blue paper or white.
The room we were in was a small one off the great saloon, and through the half open folding-door I could clearly perceive that the festivities were still continued.
While her waiting-woman had gone to find Grandchamp, the young and trembling Marie with a timid hand had pushed open the folding-door of the church. She there found Cinq-Mars standing, disguised, and anxiously awaiting her.
The Awful Sentence of Death is delivered in a room on the basement-floor of the Stadt House: the entrance through a massy folding-door covered with brass Emblems, such as Jove's Beams of Lightning, and Flaming Swords; above, between the Rails, are the old and new City Arms; and at the bottom are Death's Heads and Bones.
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