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Updated: June 19, 2025
Hush! that was his door which shut at the end of the corridor the very sound of his foot-fall makes me shudder the Lord preserve us! It is astonishing, my lady, the wisdom of some dumb animals: Crisp can't bear the sight of him; but Crisp is very knowledgeable!"
My foot-fall will usually draw from her a welcoming smile, but she happened to be absorbed at the moment in the end of a novel, the beginning of which she was going to read later, so that it was not until I coughed that she raised her eyes from her book.
As she spoke these words she heard a light foot-fall on the marble floor, and the soft frou frou of rustling skirts behind her, and she turned her head quickly. There, standing in the door-way, she beheld Jessie Bain. For an instant these two young girls who were to be such bitter rivals for one man's love looked at each other. "Oh, what exquisite embroidery!" cried Jessie.
"They may overtake him," thought the young man as he turned to enter the house, "but it will not be right away." A light foot-fall sounded in the darkness of the room. "Is that you, Jennie?" he asked in a guarded undertone. "Yes, brother; have they gone?" "Some time ago. Is mother asleep?" "She was asleep before they came, utterly worn out. I am glad she knows nothing of the cause of their visit.
At noon the merchant and Henry ate luncheon in a club where thick rugs hushed a foot-fall into a mere whisper of a walk, where servants, grave of countenance and low of voice, seemed to underscore the chilliness of the place.
Gradually his mind, from the over-excitement of the day, became a little fretted, as he listened in vain for her light foot-fall at the door. When the bell rung for tea, he started, and asked, "Where is Constance?" "In her room, I suppose," replied Mrs. Jackson, indifferently. They seated themselves at the tea-table, and waited for a few moments; but Constance did not come.
Is he dead? If so, why can't I see him would it be so very wrong?" Before Grace had answered somebody else came to the door below a foot-fall light as a roe's. There was a hurried tapping upon the panel, as if with the impatient tips of fingers whose owner thought not whether a knocker were there or no.
Whereupon the chapman drew a little nearer and began a wondrous tale of a secret visit that he had lately made to Doom, the Forbidden; of how he had crossed the river on a raft, the moon being in its dark quarter; of his landing upon a shaking wharf, where each foot-fall left a print of phosphorescent fire on the rotting planks; then of the marvels that he had seen there vast warehouses covering whole acres of ground and filled with incalculable store of goods; lofty buildings, whose chimney-pots were in the clouds; palaces of sculptured stone, now empty and despoiled, the habitation of foxes and unclean nocturnal creatures.
But of all this Gwynne knew nothing, and he was dully wondering if a great love could be affected by trifles, and if his brain and character were of less immutable material than he had believed, his mental vision still straying through the insupportable gloom of the past week, when he heard a light foot-fall beyond the door.
When a leaf floated to the earth he turned his head, thinking it might be her foot-fall.
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