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In answer she gave him a quick smile of understanding and sympathy. "All right, father dear." And she fetched the board. But they had played only a short time when Deborah's latchkey was heard in the door. Roger gave an angry hitch to his chair. Soon she appeared in the doorway. "May I talk to you, father?" she asked. "I suppose so." Roger scowled. "You'll excuse us, Edith?" she added.
To-day he had taken advantage of the luncheon interval to bring her some flowers, with a note to say that he could not come that evening. Letting himself in with his latchkey, he had carefully put those Japanese azaleas in the bowl "Famille Rose," taking water from her bedroom. Then he had sat down on the divan with his head in his hands.
Bentley, opening the door with a latchkey and leading the way into a high room on the right, darkened and cool, and filled with superb, old-fashioned rosewood furniture. It was fitted up as a library, with tall shelves reaching almost to the ceiling. An old negro appeared, dressed in a swallow-tailed coat. His hair was as white as his master's, and his face creased with age. "Sam," said Mr.
When Timmy opened the front door, she had been engaged in giving the girl a few last directions as to how a lighted candle was to be left out for her in her hall, for she had brought her latchkey with her.
I have a duplicate upstairs, and you understand that my chambers are yours too from this moment." He handed me the latchkey and I thanked him warmly from my heart, for I felt sure that the suggestion was made, not for any use that I should be to him, but for my own peace of mind. I had hardly finished speaking when a quick step on the paved walk caught my ear. "Here is Jervis," said Thorndyke.
She tried to reassure herself by the consideration that if he had discovered anything, he would surely have been far grumpier with her; he would never have confined himself to a gloomy stare. She had just finished cutting the bread and butter when the latchkey of the Honourable John Ruffin grated in the keyhole.
If a policeman had come in sight up or down the street, he had decided to call him and to acquaint him with what had happened. It was the one chance he held against himself, the gambler's method of decision, perhaps, unconsciously arrived at. As it turned out, there was still not a soul in sight. Laverick opened the outer door with his latchkey, let himself in and closed it.
Then I can phone to Madalena early in the morning, yes or no, and put her out of her suspense. No such luck, though, as that he will have got back from his club!" He had got back, however. The entrance hall was in twilight when Dick Annesley-Seton let them into the house with his latchkey, for all the electric lights save one were turned off.
But the Wild Irish Girls surely they were pining for her in the distance! "I wish I could help you, mother. I would if I hadn't promised to go out. If you will give me the latchkey I can let myself in. You needn't wait up; I promise to lock up carefully." "Very well, dear," said Mrs. Hopkins. She did not reproach Susy; that was not her way.
"'In those days men, possessed by thoughts of individual life, made moan at death, careless of the great truth that the world was one unending song." Thyme thought: 'I have never seen him as bad as this! She drew him on more quickly. With deep relief she saw her father, latchkey in hand, turning into the Old Square.
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