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At length he rose, and requesting my pardon for absenting himself, he added, "My wife will have the honour to entertain you whilst I am away." With these words he opened a small glass-door, and disappeared in the neighbouring room. When we were alone with Therese, she lost no time in opening the conversation.
She stepped quickly out upon the smooth gravel, and closed the glass-door behind her. She was afraid lest that treacherous wind should blow-to the door opening into the library, and thus betray her.
Fielden is from home: there is but a glass-door between the two chambers." "Enough, enough!" and Lucretia turned round and placed her hand lightly on the Provencal's arm.
'Poor lassie! it's a pity she came to-day, for it's a long walk in this heat! But Sylvia started to her feet, almost pushing him along. Her quickened senses heard an approaching step through the courtyard before any of the others were aware of the sound. In a minute afterwards, the glass-door at one corner of the parlour was opened from the outside, and Mr.
This posture of affairs Mr Brass observed through the glass-door as he was turning the handle, and seeing that the notary recognised him, he began to shake his head and sigh deeply while that partition yet divided them. 'Sir, said Sampson, taking off his hat, and kissing the two fore-fingers of his right hand beaver glove, 'my name is Brass Brass of Bevis Marks, Sir.
He left the castle soon after breakfast the luxurious, elegant breakfast, served by domestics who performed their work with the accuracy and perfection of machines. He arrived at Ford Bank before the man-servant had quite finished the dirtier part of his morning's work, and he came to the glass-door in his striped cotton jacket, a little soiled, and rolling up his working apron.
The glass-door of this "classe," or schoolroom, opened into the large berceau; acacia-boughs caressed its panes, as they stretched across to meet a rose-bush blooming by the opposite lintel: in this rose-bush bees murmured busy and happy. I commenced reading.
There was a good strong partition-wall between me and the gathering storm, as well as a facile means of flight through the glass-door to the court, in case it swept this way; so I am afraid I derived more amusement than alarm from these thickening symptoms.
He might refuse, but that would not save her and he would be shot as well. Why should he suffer because she had lost her courage and turned traitress? She tried to collect her senses, and to think properly. Everything felt blurred and far off. One thing alone seemed certain that there was no way out of the impasse. Emile had walked to the glass-door and unlocked it. Then he came back to her.
But the grass was still green, and the last day of the Indian summer hung its soft veil over all; the foliage of the forest was hardly missed. They passed another hall door, opposite the one where Ellen had tried her strength and patience upon the knocker; a little further on they paused at the glass-door. One step led to it.
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