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She hesitated, and seemed for a moment about to retreat. "Please come in, Lady Angela," I begged, eagerly. She came slowly forward. "I must apologize for my abominable country manners," she said, resting the tips of her fingers for a moment in mine. "I saw your door was not latched, and it never occurred to me to knock." "It was not necessary," I assured her.
"Wan' some milk, eh?" he said, and turned his back on the dead man as though he mattered nothing. He was puzzled to find the door of the shed open, though he had closed and latched it very carefully overnight, and he found also some dirty plates he had not noticed before on the bench. He discovered that the hinges of the tin locker were unscrewed and that it could be opened.
Kneeling upon one knee, and placing Myles's foot upon the other, Lord Mackworth set the spur in its place and latched the chain over the instep. He drew the sign of the cross upon Myles's bended knee, set the foot back upon the ground, rose with slow dignity, and bowing to the King, drew a little to one side.
The first thing was to get the window shut. While you might count twenty Parkins was struggling with the small casement, and felt almost as if he were pushing back a sturdy burglar, so strong was the pressure. It slackened all at once, and the window banged to and latched itself. Now to relight the candles and see what damage, if any, had been done.
With a little difficulty I made the master understand that I wished to sleep till dawn. He would take no money for such a lodging, and left me after showing me how the door latched and unfastened; and out of so many men, he was the last man whom I thanked for a service until I passed the gates of Rome.
He looked round instinctively at the door; but it was shut, and the house was well built, the walls and ceilings reasonably sound-proof. The desk was only latched beastly carelessness, of course! and inside it were three thick piles of letters, and a few loose ones below. His own letters to Chloe; and by George! the lost one! among the others. He opened it eagerly, ran it through.
And Charles Svendt lapsed into thoughtfulness. "This is the Seigneurie," said Graeme, as they turned off the road, through the latched gate, into the deep-shaded avenue. The Seigneur came to them in the Long Drawing-Room, where once upon a time the peacocks danced on the Queen's luncheon. "Your time is getting short, Mr. Graeme," he said, with a quiet smile.
"'I'm very sorry, said Daddy kindly, when he had finished. 'I wish you had told me the truth. I wouldn't have sent you out alone in the dark, son. I would have gone out and latched the gate myself. "It was almost more than Milton could bear, to have his father talk to him so sadly and yet so kindly.
Fritz broke into bitter weeping and his aunt wept with him for she had no comfort to offer, and when Franz and Paul came they, too, were deeply worried over the loss, for they blamed themselves that they did not see that the door was latched. "What can we do?" they asked Mrs. Steiner. "The first thing is to run to the station-house and tell the police.
Wagner led us into it and no sooner was the door, or wall, latched again than the Zards, having broken down the outside door by brute strength, flooded into the room.
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