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To make matters worse, a ring at the front-door bell followed almost immediately, and the maid ushered in a young man of pleasing appearance in a sweater and baggy knickerbockers who apologetically but firmly insisted on playing his ball where it lay, and, what with the shock of the lecturer's narrow escape and the spectacle of the intruder standing on the table and working away with a niblick, the afternoon's session had to be classed as a complete frost.
In the aforesaid expansion they were even genteel, or at any rate aspired to be so, and each had its own brass knocker and kept its front-door shut with decent sobriety and reticence. On the top floor of one of these tenements lodged Jean Caillaud and Pauline.
'Perhaps he has mentioned it to Sir George, and Sir George is going to do something. 'I thought he had forgotten all about it, said Mrs. Knight. 'But he never gives a thing up, Henry doesn't. Sarah drove dashingly up to the door in a hansom. 'Take that back again, commanded Aunt Annie, cautiously putting her nose outside the front-door.
Over its monumental portico was an enormous sign, truthfully describing it as "this noble mansion." As no automobile stood at the front-door Mr. Prohack concluded that his wife's visit of inspection was over. Doubtless she was seeking him at home at that moment to the end of persuading him by her soft, unscrupulous arts to take the noble mansion. The front-door was ajar.
'Well! a man, then, and he asks for you, and he rang at the front-door bell, and has walked into the dining-room. 'You should never have let him, exclaimed Norah. 'Master and missus out 'I did not want him to come in; but, when he heard you lived here, he walked past me, and sat down on the first chair, and said, "Tell her to come and speak to me."
No, no! She had not fought to save her own happiness, but she would fight to the last inch to save Dick's. Almost as if in answer to her heart's wild outcry the front-door bell rang, and looking up she saw the short stout figure which of late had taken to haunting her thoughts on the door-step. Mr.
The latter opened the front-door and passing out with Mr. Potter, held it slightly open. A penetrating draught played upon the exasperated Mr. Spriggs. He coughed loudly. "Your father's got a cold," said Mr. Potter, in a concerned voice. "No; it's only too much smoking," said the girl. "He's smoking all day long." The indignant Mr.
But here the doctor made a mistake, for when they went upstairs there was no sign of Tristram. He and his clothes had disappeared. They ran down to the front-door and looked around. There was no sign of him. Finally Dr. Beckerleg advanced to the little blue door in the hedge, opened it, and poked his head into Captain Runacles' garden.
But from him, as from the charged skies, some tension had passed; this tempest which had so cooled the air and restored the equilibrium of its forces had smoothed the frowning creases of his brow, and when the servant hurried up at the sound of the banged front-door, he found his master soaked indeed, but serene. "Yes, I got caught by the storm, Williams," he said, "and I am drenched.
As I came in view of it, on that melancholy winter's morning, in the deluge of the falling rain, and with the wind that now rose in occasional gusts and hooted over the old chimneys, the cart had already drawn up at the front-door steps, and the driver was already in earnest discourse with Mr. Burchell Fenn.
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