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In other types the current is generated and the bell rung by the act of pulling, as in a common house-bell. Electric bells in large houses and hotels are usually fitted up with indicators, as shown in figure 88, which tell the room from which the call proceeds. They are serviceable as instantaneous signals, annunciators, and alarms in many different ways.
They had just reached the head of the stairs when it seemed, as far as the thickness of the walls would allow them to judge, that a carriage was driving up to the door, and the next moment confirmed the idea by the loud noise of the house-bell. After the first perturbation of surprise had passed away, in a "Good heaven!
When the porter's wife, who used to answer the house-bell, announced "A gentleman and a lady, sir," I had, as I often had in those days the wish being father to the thought an immediate vision of sitters. Sitters my visitors in this case proved to be; but not in the sense I should have preferred. There was nothing at first however to indicate that they mightn't have come for a portrait.
"I wish to see Miss Dobrée," I said to the girl who quickly answered my noisy peal of the house-bell. "Please, sir," was her reply, "she and Miss Daltrey are gone to Sark with Captain Carey." "Gone to Sark!" I repeated, in utter amazement. "Yes, Dr. Martin. They started quite early because of the tide, and Captain Carey's man brought the carriage to take them to St. Sampson's.
Then something occurred to him, and he touched the house-bell at his elbow. "Maggie," he said gently, when the housekeeper appeared at the door, "I will have the coffee and FINE CHAMPAGNE up here, if it is no trouble. And oh, Maggie I was compelled this evening to turn the blameless visit of the framemaker into a venial sin, and that involves a needless wear and tear of conscience.
There were two bridle-cords, one from the nostril and one from the neck, but he remembered that Scott had said that it was the servant's and not the house-bell which had to be pulled, so he kept his grasp upon the lower.
The vivid idea of her was a phantom presence, and cold, assuring him that the bodily Diana was absent. Had Lady Dunstane guessed rightly, he might perhaps have been of service! Anticipating the blank silence, he rang the house-bell. It seemed to set wagging a weariful tongue in a corpse.
Accordingly the little party again moved forward, and whenever Peter or Flossy saw a card up in a window they stopped and rang the house-bell, and inquired for lodgings for themselves and their baby.
"I'll act my part till you dismiss me. I only thought if another man were to come upon the scene " The far-off sound of a ringing house-bell came indistinctly to his ears. Dorothy looked up in his face with a startled light in her great brown eyes that awoke a new interest within him. "The bell," she said. "I heard it! Who could be coming here to-night?"
Late at night he heard the house-bell, and meeting Vernon in the hall, invited him to enter the laboratory and tell him Dr. Corney's last. Vernon was brief, Corney had not let fly a single anecdote, he said, and lighted his candle. "By the way, Vernon, you had a talk with Miss Middleton?" "She will speak to you to-morrow at twelve." "To-morrow at twelve?" "It gives her four-and-twenty hours."
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