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I kept as still as a mouse, sitting on my stool and watching him through the key-hole, till presently he called out: 'Is no one there? Then I forgot and answered: 'They are all out! Of course I had betrayed myself but it is impossible to think of everything at once. Oh! yes you may laugh.
This curiosity was intensified when he heard a half-suppressed shriek in the room where mother and son were closeted. For one moment he was tempted to place his ear to the key-hole! But a blush covered his fat cheeks at the very thought of acting such a disgraceful part. Like a wise fellow he did not give the tempter a second opportunity, but, seizing the hand of his companion, said
The other grooms had heard him praying, so they peeped through the key-hole of his room, and there they saw him on his knees before the picture.
The one candle flickering in the draught showed Mabel's white bust and arms, like those of a phantom, beaming through a cloud of blackness, when she stooped to try the key in the lock of the prison-chamber. After fitting it, she knocked before she turned it in the rusty wards again, and more loudly then spoke, putting her lips close to the key-hole: "We are friends, and have brought you supper.
"The Vicomte, when apprehended, confessed that, smitten by an insane passion for the Duchesse, which she had, on his presuming to declare it, met with indignant scorn, he had taken advantage of his lodgment in the same house to admit himself into the cabinet adjoining her dressing-room by means of a key which he had procured, made from an impression of the key-hole taken in wax.
The breathing of the youngest gentleman was heard through the key-hole of the door. He DIDN'T play. What vent was a flute for the passions swelling up within his breast? A trombone would have been a world too mild. The serenade approached its close. Its crowning interest was at hand. The gentleman of a literary turn had written a song on the departure of the ladies, and adapted it to an old tune.
Berners did as he was requested to do, and Munson slipped his key into the lubricated key-hole, and silently unlocked the door. "Oh, our deliverer!" fervently exclaimed Sybil, as he softly entered the room and closed the door behind him, holding up his finger in warning to them to be silent.
Tobacco-fumes exuded from the key-hole, and I doubt not other creature-comforts lent the muddled man their aid. However, after the first rush of news to Mrs. Tracy, her lord, who had every moment been expecting the door to fly open, and Emily to fall into his arms for strangely did they love each other suddenly asked,
Victor Hugo makes a donkey meditate and apostrophize thus: My brother, man, if you would know the truth, We both are by the same dull walls shut in; The gate is massive and the dungeon strong. But you look through the key-hole out beyond, And call this knowledge; yet have not at hand The key wherein to turn the fatal lock.
"Neal, stay with us. I'm frightened." A low musical laugh followed, and then the voice of the Comtesse "You are a most ungallant cavalier, Mr. Neal. You left us alone in one ditch this evening already. You really must not leave us in another." The effort to force the door of the meeting-house was unsuccessful. "Put a musket to the key-hole," said Captain Twinely, "and blow off the lock."
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