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Updated: June 8, 2025
Casa Alvisi is directly opposite the high, broad-based florid church of S. Maria della Salute so directly that from the balcony over the water-entrance your eye, crossing the canal, seems to find the key-hole of the great door right in a line with it; and there was something in this position that for the time made all Venice-lovers think of the genial <i>padrona</i> as thus levying in the most convenient way the toll of curiosity and sympathy.
He reached the door at last, but it was closed. There was no key-hole even. After looking around a long time he found the Fly-up-the-creek fairy, not far from the door, sitting by a fire, with a large, old owl sitting over against him. "Give me the key to the door, Ole Ke-whack!" said Bobby. "Oh, no! I will not give you my clothes, ke-whack! Do you think I would give you my party clothes?
At that time Grady exhibited a piece of soap which contained an impression of a key-hole in the lock of the Adams Express car. In the course of the conversation which ensued at that time, Grady said that there were two messengers who looked after the Adams Express cars alternately, one on each alternate night.
Just then old Carlo opened his door, and he came with a flask in his hand; for, as soon as the Signor saw him, he was as tame as could be, and followed him away as naturally as a dog does a butcher with a piece of meat in his basket. All this I saw through the key-hole. Well, Annette, said Ludovico, jeeringly, shall I let you out now? O no, says I, I would not'
He would not wait twenty minutes. Another knock. She threw on her dressing gown and ran along her little passage and stooped to the key-hole just as another tap, discreet but insistent, rang on the door panel. "Go away," she said low and earnestly. "I can't talk to you to-night whatever it is. It must wait till the morning."
"Put them in the keyhole, quick!" said the owl, for the stake-driver was reviving. "Where is the key-hole?" "There! there!" cried the owl, pointing to the fire. By this time the Fly-up-the-creek had already begun to reach out for his clothes, which Bobby hastily threw into the fire.
Why, ladies and gentlemen, that editor is so cursedly dishonest and so im mensely mean, that his hair wouldn't stay black, but turned to a dirty white before its time so mean, his food won't digest easy his shirt won't dry when washed his clothes won't fit him the cholera won't have him musquitoes won't bite him and if, after his lean carcass is huddled under the turf, his cunning little soul should attempt to crawl through the key-hole of hell's gate, the devil, whose lacky he has ever been, would kick him with as much disgust as this fraction once displayed in kicking a poor wretch whom he had beggared, starved and ruined!
"I could beat Soft Wind with the broom, or tip over the stove, or do something equally desperate" she told him. "I feel so deeply it hurts me here," and she pressed her hand to her heart. "Think of me," he whispered, "hurt on both sides. Bullet hole in right lung key-hole in my heart." The blarney of the wretch! Really, this McGraw man was the most forward person!
The small end of the key fitted this, as it had the upper key-hole; and now, with two or three hard jerks at the key, a door in the panel opened, showing a strip of the bare wall and a narrow, arched doorway, piercing the thickness of the wall; and within which I saw a screw staircase of stone. Candle in hand I stepped in.
And at the thought, a pang of regret for his demerit seized him; he remembered the things that were good and that he had neglected, and the things that were evil and that he had loved; and it was with a prayer upon his lips that he mounted the steps and thrust the key into the key-hole. He stepped into the lighted hall, shut the door softly behind him, and stood there fixed in wonder.
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