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Barbara enquired after some moments of silence. "If you want me to take you home, I'll take you home. Otherwise I shall leave you here, go round to the club, explain that I've lost my latch-key and get a bed there." "You're almost oriental in your hospitality," she laughed. "I've no hospitality to spare for a girl of twenty-two at this hour of the night." She stretched out her arm to him.
Malipieri let himself in with a small latch-key, for he had ordered a modern patent lock to be put on his door as soon as he moved into the house. Masin appeared almost at once, however, and stood waiting for his master at the door of the sitting-room, like a large, placid mastiff. Malipieri nodded to him, and went in with Signor Bruni.
He stopped at a house which bore the name 'Russell House, and which I shall be able to swear to as soon as I am able to go out. He let himself in with a latch-key, and asked me to follow him up to his room on the third floor. I thought I noticed when we were in the room that he locked the door; however, I had nothing of any value about me except the £10,000, which I was ready to give him.
He let himself in with his latch-key, hung up his hat and overcoat by the sense of touch, and, groping his way upstairs, opened the door of the first floor sitting-room.
The man had no hat, his clothes were hideous with filth, he had the air of a hop-picker. Yet Morris knew him; it was John. The first impulse of flight was succeeded, in the elder brother's bosom, by the empty quiescence of despair. "What does it matter now?" he thought, and drawing forth his latch-key ascended the steps.
Their conveyance, as she spoke, stopped at their door, and it was, on the spot, another fact of value for her that her husband, though seated on the side by which they must alight, made no movement. They were in a high degree votaries of the latch-key, so that their household had gone to bed; and as they were unaccompanied by a footman the coachman waited in peace.
Suddenly I saw in front of me Lady Alroy, deeply veiled and walking very fast. On coming to the last house in the street, she went up the steps, took out a latch-key, and let herself in. "Here is the mystery," I said to myself; and I hurried on and examined the house. It seemed a sort of place for letting lodgings. On the doorstep lay her handkerchief, which she had dropped.
She was opening the door with her latch-key, and missed the sudden sagging of Freddie's jaw, the sudden clutch at his breast-pocket, and the look of horror and anguish that started into his eyes. Freddie was appalled.
But lor' sir, she's wonderful like her ma when it comes to paying a bill, not but what they're to be respected for keeping a heye on the purse. I often tell Yeander that if we were a bit more saving, like the vicar's lady, we'd lay by a bit for our old age. 'Yes, Mrs. Yeander, yes; that would be an excellent plan, said the curate, fumbling with his latch-key in the door.
'Dear Philippa, I exclaimed politely, 'how is your husband? 'Husband! I have none, she hissed. 'Tell me, Basil, did you ever hate a fellow no end? 'Yes, I answered, truly; for, like Mr. Carlyle, I just detested most people, and him who had robbed me of Philippa most of all. 'Do you know what he did, Basil? He insisted on having a latch-key! Did you ever hate a man? I threw out my arms.
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