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``Aye, aye! you angel of darkness, and there's a letter for you from Bullknop 'treet, number two-two-five, green door and brass knocker! The packet was sent down into the cabin, and every one waited to hear of the result.
I felt quite faint, and on the point of crying, with mere horror. 'Hammer away at his knocker, bellowed Dickon, in a frenzy of delight. 'He'll break it now, if it ain't already, cried Milly, alluding, as I afterwards understood, to the Captain's Grecian nose. 'Brayvo, little un! The Captain was considerably the taller. Another smack, and, I suppose, Captain Oakley fell once more.
That will do." We none of us knew at the time which of us had pleased her most. At this time we were living in the upper part of a house in the Gower Street region. That first home in London I remember chiefly by its fine brass knocker, which mother kept beautifully bright, and by its being the place to which I was sent my first part!
I lifted the knocker with a faint heart, and could scarce breathe when I had to knock three times or ever the door was opened. How swiftly my Ann was wont to fly to me when she heard my tap! Was she then afraid to meet me with the message of woe which my lord Cardinal had perchance received from Cairo through his chaplains there?
However, her steps drew nearer to the house, and at last she had raised the knocker just raised it and let it fall. Mrs. Byass opened; she did not know Pennyloaf by sight. The latter tried to say something, but only stammered a meaningless sound; thereupon Bessie concluded she was a beggar, and with a shake of the head shut the door upon her. Pennylcaf turned away in confusion and dull misery.
But this was the close to that chapter. The hour of six went by. Between six and seven came a sound of knocker and bell at the street-door. Danvers rushed into the sitting-room to announce that it was Mr. Redworth. Before a word could be mustered, Redworth was in the room. He said: 'You must come with me at once!
From that time he had regarded her too as his enemy, and firmly believed that she designedly showed herself most friendly to those who seemed most obnoxious to him, and among these he reckoned Polykarp. Once more the knocker sounded on the senator's door; it opened, and Petrus himself stood before the raging Gaul, a lamp in his hand.
Had he not been listening, he would not have perceived it. Eve's handling of the knocker was firmer than that, and in a different rhythm. Apprehensive of disappointment, he hurried downstairs and opened the door to Patty Ringrose Patty alone. With a shy but pleased laugh, her cheeks warm and her eyes bright, she jerked out her hand to him as in the old days. "I know you won't be glad to see me.
The ex-'garde-robiere' had helped her put on her gala attire, and Pyramus assured his wife that every one would consider her the handsomest and most elegant lady in the galleries. She knew that he was right, and listened with pleasure, deeply as resentment and disappointment burdened her soul. Then the knocker on the door rapped. The litter-bearers had probably come. But no!
The adorable thing is that, once having made up her mind, she never flinched, not even when her hand was on the knocker. The first gentleman received her in his lobby. For a moment he did not remember her; then suddenly the color deepened on his face, and he went back and shut the parlor-door. "Did anybody see you coming here?" he asked, quickly. "I don't know." "What does she want?"
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