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Of course, she denied this, and I let the matter drop; but I was more than a little puzzled, and did not know whether to believe my own explanation, or to take the mater's, which was to put the noises down to the mice, and the open door to the fact that she couldn't have properly latched it, when she went to bed.
Already he could hear the trampling of feet up the stairs to the second story. Lightly he vaulted the wall and came to the roof door leading down to number 123. He found it latched. The eaves of the roof projected so far that he could not from there get a hold on the window casings below. He made a vain circuit of the roof, then passed to the next house. Again he was out of luck.
Sharpe, burning and shivering in her sewing-chair, dreamily caught through the open door, and dreamily repeated to herself, a dozen words of compassionate Irish brogue: "Folks as laves folks cryin' to home and goes sailin' round with other women " Then the wind latched the door. The Doctor and Miss Dallas drew in their oars, and floated softly.
I cannot describe it precisely, but that was just the impression it made on me, and it took me aback for a moment, so that I paused as the gate fell-to and latched itself behind me. "'Halt there! the Major commanded, facing me full across the turf. 'Halt, and tell me, please, why you have come back!
A narrow bare stairway mounted above, with a passage at one side, and on each hand entrances were shut on farther interiors. The scraping of a chair, talking came from the left; the door, he saw, was not latched. He pushed it open and entered. There was a movement in the room still beyond, and he walked evenly into what evidently was a kitchen.
"Peter Dovers are the greatest expense, and Peter won't happen but once. Shelley will have at least two years in school before it is her turn, and you come next, anyway." "Shut up!" cried Laddie. "Thanky! Your orders shall be obeyed gladly." He laid down the pitchfork, went outside, closed the door, and latched it. Laddie called to him, but he ran to the house.
He said good-night; shut-to the latched door of his long low room, ceilinged with rafters close under the steep roof, its brown walls hung with quiet, dark, pondering and beautiful faces looking gravely across at him. And with his candle in his hand he sat down on the bedside. All speculation was gone. The noisy clock of his brain had run down again.
As the Makambo rolled on an easy sea the door swung back and forth, remaining wide open for intervals and banging shut but not banging hard enough to latch itself. Michael crossed the high threshold with the innocent intention of exploring no farther than the immediate vicinity. But scarcely was he through, when a heavier roll slammed the door and latched it.
"And how did he shut it after him?" "I think you had better tell us, Roy," said Miss Ruth. "Well, he reached over the fence, and lifted the latch with his teeth, that's how he opened the gate; and he shut it by backing up against it till it latched itself. Then he pulled out the wooden pin of the barn-door, and it swung open by its own weight see?"
Falkirk went off, making sure that the door latched behind him. In a quarter of an hour he came back, with an attendant bearing a tray. 'At present fortune gives us nothing more remarkable than fried ham, he said, 'and that not of the most eatable, I fear. She is a jade. But we'll get away to-morrow. I hope so. 'My dear sir, said Wych Hazel with a radiant face, 'we will get away to-night.
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