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Hence the remnant of the raised hearth looked like wide hobs to the grate. The recess as a chimney-corner was thereby spoiled, for coal makes a very different kind of smoke from the aromatic product of wood or peat. Right and left within the recess, were two common, unpainted doors, with latches.
She closed the door with a bang and rattle of large old-fashioned latches, locks, and chains, and the storm was excluded. They were in the dark of the hall. "Wait till I put my hand on the matches," she said. Then she struck a match, which revealed a common oil-lamp, with a reservoir of yellow glass and a paper shade. She raised the chimney and lit the lamp, and regulated the wick.
When he stood up to open a door he opened all the doors with old-fashioned latches he was portentously tall, and when stretched on the rug before the fire he seemed too long for this world as indeed he was.
It was made of black leather and looked very, very old. One of its latches was broken and it was tied up round the middle with a piece of string. "Thank you," said the Doctor when I brought it to him. "Was that bag all the luggage you had for your voyage?" I asked. "Yes," said the Doctor, as he undid the piece of string. "I don't believe in a lot of baggage. It's such a nuisance.
At the moment, Worth tore buckles and latches free, yanked the thing open, reversed it in air and out fell a coiled rope that curved itself like a snake a three-headed snake; the triple grappling iron at its end standing up as though to hiss. We all stood staring; I was too stunned to be triumphant. What a pat confirmation of Miss Wallace's deductions!
"Bath and bedroom," I said, "that suite has three windows, seven stories above the ground. I found them all locked not mere latches the St. Dunstan has burglar-proof locks. No disturbance in the room; all neat, in place, the door closed with the usual spring lock; and I had to get Mrs. Griggsby to move, since she was tacking the carpet right at the threshold.
He noted with bitterness a cheap automobile standing in front of the place. But there were horses in the stalls, horses that lolled on a dropped hip, with heads down and eyes closed. There were heavy roping saddles hanging on the pegs, and bridles with ear loops and no throat latches.
What seems clear about it is that the two contending pronunciations are homophones, one with latches the other with lashes. But there seems no propriety in the SS being changed to Z. The pronunciation látchess would save it from its awkward and absurd homophone latches, and would be in order with prowess, largess, noblesse, &c.
"The major is keenly susceptible to colds, doctor, and I see he is fidgeting a bit. Would you mind having that door shut?" "Which door, Mrs. Miller? Most assuredly. I thought it was closed. Here, Robert," he called to his colored servant, "go and see if the front door is shut. The wind sometimes proves too much for these quartermaster's latches," he said, apologetically.
He stood forty-one inches tall and weighed thirty-nine pounds. A machinist's hammer was a two-handed tool and a five-pound sack of sugar was a burden. Doorknobs and latches were a problem in manipulation. The negotiation of a swinging door was a feat of muscular engineering.
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