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Edward M. Shepard; I am in the mood adventurous, and instantly the shadow of a prodigy falls across my threshold; yea, though I live on upper West End Avenue. Do you remember this?" and he held out a small Yale latch-key. "It is the one you picked up at Twenty-seventh Street and Fifth Avenue last night." "Precisely. Now a key, you observe, is intended to open something in this case a door.
Breathless, excited, and with nerves unstrung, I opened my door with my latch-key and returned to my room, where the reading-lamp had burned low, for it had been alight all through the night. I mixed myself a stiff brandy and soda, tossed it off, and then turned to look at myself in the glass. The picture I presented was disreputable and unkempt.
Berkley ever again desires to enter this house, he is to be admitted, and his orders are to be obeyed by every servant in it." "Yes, sir." Colonel Arran rose trembling. He and Berkley looked at each other; then both bowed; and the butler ushered out the younger man. "Pardon the latch-key, sir." Berkley took it, examined it, handed it back. "Return it to Colonel Arran with Mr.
One tender little bond maintained itself between his mother and himself so long as he lived under the paternal roof; it was his rule never to go to bed without giving her a good-night kiss. If he was out so late that he had to admit himself with a latch-key, he nevertheless went to her in her room.
That was about all I wanted. Then I had a bath, and cut my moustache, which was long and drooping, into a short stubbly fringe. Now came the next step. Paddock used to arrive punctually at 7.30 and let himself in with a latch-key. But about twenty minutes to seven, as I knew from bitter experience, the milkman turned up with a great clatter of cans, and deposited my share outside my door.
From that description maybe you'd judge that the place where I hang out is a little antique. It is. But inside it's mighty comf'table, and it's the best imitation of a home I've ever carried a latch-key to. As for the near-aunts, Zenobia and Martha, take it from me they're the real things in that line, even if they did let me in off the street without askin' who or what!
At length there came the fumbling of a latch-key he could hear it plainly and then the heavy foot ascending the stairs. Her glazed eyes and red cheeks told the familiar tale.
Katherine frowned a little, and demurred. "Are you going to be fearfully conventional, Dorothy?" "We must pay some attention to the conventions, don't you think?" "I had hoped not. I yearn to be a bachelor girl, and own a latch-key." "We shall each possess a latch-key when we settle down in New York.
The same grizzly dawn that looked in on Rose through the dim window of her room on Clark Street, saw Rodney letting himself in his own front door with a latch-key after hours of aimless tramping through deserted, unrecognized streets. He was in a welter of emotions he could no more have given names to than to the streets whose dreary lengths he had plodded.
Everywhere was painted its coat-of-arms a bottle, slippers, and a pipe crossed with a latch-key, all in proper heraldic guise. Captain Melville, who was a leading member of the ball committee and who was her particular host that night, spirited her away from the crowd of partner-seeking men at the doorway and took her on a tour of the room to see and admire the scheme of decoration.
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