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But he suffered the change to be made till his neck also shone, murmuring vaguely: "He's an extravagant chap, I'm afraid." A little brighter in the eye, with rather more colour than usual in his cheeks, he took his seat in the drawing-room to wait for the sound of the front-door bell.
I thought I would use it to hit the cow that is, when I had found the front-door. I knew it led out of the parlour, but could not recollect its exact position. I argued that if I kept along the wall I should be bound to come to it. I found the wall, and set off full of hope.
Certainly we incur danger every time we go outside the front-door; but to remain always on the inside would prove the greatest danger of the whole. When a man slips in the street and dislocates his arm, we do not warn him against walking, but against carelessness.
It was one of those defeats that are a triumph. "You are very chic," said Sophia, uttering her admiration. "Ah!" said Madame Foucault, shrugging the shoulders of disillusion. "Chic! What does that do?" But she was pleased. The front-door banged.
But one day the mother was sent for suddenly, not knowing when she should be able to come home again. She was very sad, and so were the children, for they loved their grandmother and as the carriage drove off they all stood crying round the front-door for ever so long. The servants even cried too all but Bill. "It's an ill wind that blows nobody good," said he. "What a jolly time I shall have!
"The front-door is open," whispered Prudence. "Make haste. I'll close it." She followed him to the door; he made an ineffectual attempt to seize her hand, and the next moment was pushed gently outside and the door closed behind him. He stood a moment gazing at the house, and then hastened back to his ship. "Seven to-morrow," he murmured; "seven to-morrow.
And then, at the door: "If she hasn't got anything to do she can always see to the flowers for me. Perhaps when I come back you'll introduce us." As soon as he had heard the bang of the front-door Mr. Prohack rang his bell. "Machin, I understand that my secretary is waiting in the dining-room." "Yes, sir." "Ask her to take her things off and then bring her up here." "Up here, sir?"
Why, Sunday morning, when the sea was all still, I used to hear the bass-viol a-soundin' down under the waters, jist as plain as could be, and psalms and preachin'. I've reason to think there's as many hopefully pious mermaids as there be folks," said the Captain. "But," said Moses, "you said the anchor was before the front-door, so the family couldn't get out, how did the merman get out?"
If there is but one footman in a large house, the butler has a great deal to do, particularly if the family be a hospitable one. When the footman is out with the carriage the butler answers the front-door bell, but in very elegant houses there are generally two footmen, as this is not strictly the duty of a butler.
Whatever may have been expected by his neighbours, it is certain that Mr Abney the tall, the thin, the austere seemed inclined to give his young cousin a kindly reception. The moment the front-door was opened he darted out of his study, rubbing his hands with delight. 'How are you, my boy? how are you?
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