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Updated: May 8, 2025
Oh! my head aches, I cannot think if only I knew... If they find him he must come here here to my lord the Bishop." "To Theophilus?" said Constantine in surprise. "Yes, yes to him," she said hastily. "Or stay to the gate-keeper at the Bishop's palace."
The line of lorries slowed down for a level crossing, where the road led across a spur of railway, and then halted, the gate-keeper having blocked the highway to allow the passing of a still distant and very slowly moving train.
The gate-keeper was frightened, and at once informed the King of what had happened. When the King heard it, he did not even take time to slip into his shoes, but hurried out barefoot to receive them. He led them into his palace, had rugs of brocade spread for them, and beds of ivory set up, fragrant herbs burned and tables of gold and precious stones set in front of them.
I looked at her with the greatest pleasure, and her eyes rested upon me as if we had been old acquaintances. "How did you find your bed?" she asked. "Very comfortable; I am sure you made it. Pray, who are you?" "I am Lucie, the daughter of the gate-keeper: I have neither brothers nor sisters, and I am fourteen years old.
If you chew it well, I don't doubt you also will find it good. Is that something like what you would have, Mr. Polwarth?" "Precisely," answered the gate-keeper. "But," he added, after a moment's delay, "I should be sorry if you stopped there." "Stopped there!" echoed Wingfold. "The question is whether I can begin there. You have no idea how ignorant I am how little I have read!"
The drowsy gate-keeper had already unlocked the heavy town gates, for day begins early in hot countries, and at sight of Naomi, whom he knew well, he uttered a sleepy "Peace be with thee!" as a morning greeting. "With thee be peace!" piped Naomi in return. "Oh, Nathan, I go to-day to Jerusalem with my Aunt Miriam. This very day I go!" Old Nathan nodded his head solemnly and muttered in his beard.
Inside I found the gate-keeper waiting at our house door for a reply note, to say that the letter had been delivered. I went to my study, and was praying for a blessing on the chapel preaching when Emily came. I let her in. She had your letter in her hand. It had come by Russia, and the Russian post sometimes sends over our mail by a Peking beggar, paying him of course.
Madame Deschars, who possesses a gate-keeper that is at the same time a gardener, confesses that the vegetables raised on her land, beneath her glass frames, by dint of compost and top-soil, cost her twice as much as those she used to buy at Paris, of a woman who had rent and taxes to pay, and whose husband was an elector.
One hour and a half later by Sita Ram's wrist watch, Ismail, an Afridi gate-keeper at present apparently without a job, started off on a racing camel full-pelt for the border, with a letter in his pocket addressed to a merchant by way of ostensible business, and ten rupees for solace to the Desert Police.
Regularly too every day, about one o'clock, the gnome-like form of the gate-keeper would issue from the little door in the park-fence, and come marching across the grass towards Leopold's chair, which was set near the small clump of trees already mentioned.
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