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Updated: June 28, 2025
There was complete silence, except for the tread of persons in the corridor outside, and certain distant sounds of musketry and bomb practice from the military camp half a mile away. He was dying the man in the bed. That was plain. Bridget knew the look of mortal illness. It couldn't be long. She sat there nearly an hour thinking. At the end of that time she rang the hand-bell near her.
She handed him the worn leather pocket-book, which contained only the few pennies reserved to pay her passage across the ferry, and turned the pocket of her dress inside cut. At the tap of a hand-bell, a tall, angular woman opened the door of an adjoining room. "Mrs. Foster, you will very carefully examine the prisoner, and search her clothing for papers, as well as valuables."
There exist several of this kind in Nuremberg and thereabouts; as, the awl and punch-makers, lead-pencil makers, hand-bell makers, gold and silver wire-drawers, and others. They occupy a particular town or district, and they say, “Here we are. We possess these trades, and we mean to keep them to ourselves.
Presently the door opened, and in the dim lamp-light appeared the presbyter Andreas, stepping softly. He made known that an urgent message had just summoned him to the villa; Maximus was near his end. 'I, too, will come, exclaimed the bishop, rising in his bed and ringing loudly a little hand-bell. 'Venerable father! your health 'Hasten, hasten, Andreas! I follow.
Under this staircase was set a stand full of walking-sticks, and a table littered with gloves, brushes, a hand-bell, a riding-crop, one or two dog-whistles, and a bed-room candle, with tinder-box beside it. This, with one notable exception, was all the furniture. The exception which turned me cold was the form of a yellow mastiff dog, curled on a mat beneath the table.
Warwick here rang the hand-bell on his table, and on the entrance of his attendant gentleman, bade him see that the barge was in readiness; then beckoning to his kinsman, and with a nod to his daughters, he caught up his plumed cap, and passed at once into the garden. "Anne," said Isabel, when the two girls were alone, "thou hast vexed my father, and what marvel?
"I should like it, but I've contracted certain obligations of a business kind at home," he said. "Well, if you're bound, keep your word and do the work. If you find you're not, I should advise you to take this. It's a good beginning. This is Tuesday. Tell me on Saturday. Good-by." He rang a hand-bell on the table, and, as his secretary entered, said, "The Canadian papers, please."
Peckover left Mat, while she went up stairs to see if her sick brother wanted anything. Finding that he was still quietly sleeping, she only waited to arrange the bed-clothes comfortably about him, and to put a hand-bell easily within his reach in case he should awake, and then went down stairs again immediately.
When at length I had told all that I had to tell, the chairman whispered something to the secretary; the secretary touched a silver hand-bell, and the guard, Benjamin Somers, was ushered into the room. He was then examined as carefully as myself. He declared that he knew Mr.
The doctor bowed, shook hands with the boys, and without a word went out, touching his lips with his fingers to them as he turned his back to the governor, a movement which the lads understood at once as a hint that it would be as well to say nothing which might show that they had any knowledge of Russian. The governor rang a hand-bell, and a sergeant entered.
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