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Updated: June 26, 2025
Now the ground trembles with the approaching chariot. The great folding-doors of the Hall swing open. "Stand back!" cry the celestial ushers. "Stand back, and let the Judge of quick and dead pass through!" He takes the throne, and, looking over the throng of nations, He says: "Come to judgment, the last judgment, the only judgment!"
The door opened, and the "old bag of bones," as Ormiston irreverently styled his lady-love's ancient domestic, made a sign for them to follow him. Leading the way down along a corridor, he flung open a pair of shining folding-doors at the end, and ushered them at once into the majestic presence of the sorceress and her magic room. Both gentlemen doffed their plumed hats.
They entered a spacious hall paved with white and black flagstones, furnished with old sideboards and choir-stalls and adorned with a carved escutcheon which displayed the remains of armorial bearings, representing an eagle standing on a block of stone, all half-hidden behind a veil of cobwebs which hung down over a pair of folding-doors. "The door of the drawing-room, evidently," said Renine.
But now, to Colonel Heathcock's great joy and relief, a handsome collation appeared in the dining-room, of which Ulick opened the folding-doors. "Count, you have made an excellent house of your castle," said Lady Dashfort. "It will be, when it is finished," said the count.
A glance about the "sitting-room" in which the opposing forces were lined up, and into the parlour through the opened folding-doors, may help us to a better understanding of the issue involved. Both rooms were large and furnished in a style that had been supremely luxurious in 1878.
But his surprise developed into downright amazement, when at length two folding-doors were thrown open, and he found himself in the same apartment which had furnished the scene of his painting of "The Flute Concert."
"Ah," said the emperor, with a profound sigh, "would it were already finished, and I could live in it with my son! At this moment the folding-doors of the cabinet were thrown open, and the usher's voice shouted, "His majesty the King of Rome!" The emperor, with a joyful exclamation, turned toward the door.
"Well, I do not care," sighed Andreas; "open the door again, Niederkircher, I must step out on the balcony." "And make another fine speech as before," said the innkeeper, throwing open the folding-doors. Andreas made no reply, but went to the balcony with a grave and almost angry face.
He turned and looked at her with a sudden defiance in his eyes, as if daring her to doubt him. "I was listening to the rain. The summer is gone, Wanda it is gone." He drew forward a chair for her, and glanced over his shoulder towards the large folding-doors, through which the conservatory was visible in the fading light. The rain drummed on the glass roof with a hopeless, slow persistency.
She tried to encourage herself by saying it was for her husband she did this unusual thing; but she felt very miserable and inclined to cry. At last a bell rang; the maid came in and invited Lady Bassett to follow her. She opened the glass folding-doors, and took them into a small conservatory, walled like a grotto, with ferns sprouting out of rocky fissures, and spars sparkling, water dripping.
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