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Updated: May 14, 2025
Miss Eliza paused to shut the front door carefully behind them, latching it against the storm; and Arethusa ran on ahead into the sitting-room at one end of the big, square hall, a "dog-trot" hall which went straight through the centre of the house from front porch to back porch.
He went to her softly closing to but not latching the door of his sister's room to ascertain what she wanted, but with fear and trembling. "Please get me a glass of warm milk," she said to him. "There is some brandy " he began. "No; milk, if you please," she returned, and disappeared within the room. A few minutes later he handed the glass in to her and the door was shut again.
But it is very likely that he felt on that occasion exactly as Fenn felt when, after a night of unparalleled misadventure, he found that somebody had cut off his retreat by latching the window. After a gruelling race Fate had just beaten him on the tape. There was no doubt about its being latched. The sash had not merely stuck.
But it was entirely impossible to conjecture for certain what this something might be. "That is serious?" remarked Lady Southminster, without moving a muscle. "I suppose so," said her son, and sat down again. Then the man who was looking out of the window turned and came back into the room, latching the shutters and putting the curtains into place. "Well, Jack?" asked the General.
Angy could not lift her eyes to him; with bowed head she was latching and unlatching the gate through which he must pass. He looked at the sun and thoughtfully made reckon of the time. There were still two hours before he could take the train which "Lef 's go set deown a spell afore " he faltered "afore we say good-by." She made no answer.
Finding that the door might not be closed, she threw it wide. "I have no objection to your seeing Mr. Fenley," she said. "I am at a loss to understand why you follow him here, but that does not concern me in the least. Come this way." Latching the door, she led him to a room on the right of the entrance hall, which formed the central artery of the flat. The place had no direct daylight.
Holt; 'you've the manners of the old country. 'My father and mother were from Wiltshire, and so be I, she answered, setting back her wheel, and looking gratified at the implied commendation. 'But that be so long ago as I scarce remember. 'And she made amends by marrying me, said the settler, entering from the outer door, and latching it behind him. 'Mary, get the pan and fix some supper quick.
There came the click of the brickwork door; then slow shufflings; once a thump on the hollow boards that made his heart leap; then after what seemed an interminable while, came the sound of latching the fifth stair into its place; and he felt his foot grasped.
Otherwise humanity would proceed to extinguish itself forthwith. Thus, Cutty was totally unaware upon entering the shop that he was about to tear off its hinges the door he was so carefully bolting and latching and padlocking between Kitty Conover and this duffer who wanted to fiddle his way through convalescence. Where there is fiddling there is generally dancing.
He was a good-hearted and wholesome-minded boy, and left a real ache behind him in the Dower House. Isabel indeed ran up to his room, after she had seen his feathered cap disappear at a trot through the gate, leaving her father in the hall; and after shutting and latching the door, threw herself on his bed, and sobbed her heart out. They had never been long separated before.
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