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The new clothes gripped him in awkward places, but as he glanced down at the well-pressed flannels, he felt glorified. That night, while strolling in a back street of the lower town, they discovered a tunnel running into the cliff. At its mouth was a turnstile. "Shades of Avernus! What's this?" asked Leighton. Lewis inquired of the gateman. "It's an elevator to the upper town," he said.
Parker to Detective Sergeants Peabody and Clark, originally assigned at Headquarters to investigate the case. It seemed, however, to Peabody very unlikely that Parker had conducted his operations alone, and he therefore at once inquired at the Tombs what character of visitors came to see the prisoner. The gateman replied that as yet none had arrived.
The gateman, who controls the airways of the skies, was taking his toll, and every one of the group that flew westward toward La Ferte, leaving three comrades behind, now more soberly considered the alarming casualty figures of eighty per cent per month and wondered! A month! It is such a little while. McGee Makes a Discovery
The strange gateman he had a little kennel of a place to sleep in just inside the entrance snatched the hamper from Tess and led her almost at a run across an ancient courtyard whose outlines were nearly invisible except where the yellow light of one ancient oil lantern on an iron bracket showed a part of the palace wall and a steep flight of stone steps, worn down the middle by centuries of sandals.
This devil screen blocks the evil spirits that fly in when the compound gates are opened the blind evil spirits, that can fly only in straight paths, and hence crash against the devil screen when they enter. As to yourself, the gateman leads you round the screen, and across the compound to the master's house.
Ach! since when has His Majesty chosen an Englishman to dispatch his affairs? I will proceed with you to the station." And he kept his word. When he saw the gateman examine my ticket and passports and smile pleasantly, he turned on his heel, convinced that there was nothing dangerous about me. He climbed on his horse and galloped away.
My finer reverence has been for benches in the sun and the vagabondage of a bus-top. If ever my friend gets to heaven it will be but another point for exportation. How closely he will listen for any squeaking of the Pearly Gates, with a nostrum ready for their dry complaint! How he will wink upon the gateman that he write his order large! Reader, I have sent you off upon a wrong direction.
I foresaw the heavy atmosphere that would brood over all like a cold fog, this evening of Phil's disgraceful return from the scholastic arena. Ascertaining from the gateman that the erring train was certain not to pull in during the next ten minutes, I sought a telephone booth.
You saw Ismail, my gateman? His very brother took the letters back and forth!" "But why should Gungadhura risk his throne by anything so foolish?" "He thinks to save it. He thinks to prove that the tribes began the dickering, and then to offer his army to the English Tom Tripe and all! Patali put him up to it. Perhaps she wants a necklace made of Hill-men's teeth who knows?
That particular gateman appeared to prevent anybody passing him who did not show a bit of printed cardboard, as he called, "Tickets! have your tickets ready!" And, oh, in what a glorious voice he so directed them! "My heart!
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