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Updated: June 8, 2025
On the outskirts of the town they were passing an ugly modern villa with a large garden before it, when an old gentleman came briskly up the road and turned in at the gate. Adam swung round on his heel and followed him up the path, begging. Eve hung by the gate. "No," said the old gentleman, fitting his latchkey into the door, "I have no work to offer. Eh? Is that your wife by the gate? Hungry?"
So, in the old days of her childhood, Cousin Jimmy had brought her this feeling of relief in the midst of distress. Opening the door with her latchkey, she dragged George into the hall, where her thankful eyes fell on O'Hara's overcoat, from which the water was, still dripping.
He had found one charmingly furnished, and there he sheltered his guilty happiness. It was here that Jeanne came, thickly veiled, since her return from Nice. They each had a latchkey belonging to the door opening upon the Bois. The one who arrived first waited for the other, within the house, whose shutters remained closed to deceive passers-by.
He was so perturbed that he forgot to use his latchkey, and Mary Ann, who opened the door, heard him say angrily, "Well, I can't slam the door in your face, but I will tell you in your face I don't think it at all gentlemanly of you to force yourself upon me like this." "My dear Lancelot, when did I ever set up to be a gentleman? You know that was always your part of the contract."
The man had no hat, his clothes were hideous with filth, he had the air of a hop-picker. Yet Morris knew him; it was John. The first impulse of flight was succeeded, in the elder brother's bosom, by the empty quiescence of despair. 'What does it matter now? he thought, and drawing forth his latchkey ascended the steps.
Craye hesitated a moment with her latchkey in her hand. Then she threw open the door of her flat. "Come in, won't you?" she said, and led the way into her fire-warm, flower-scented, lamplit room. Vernon also hesitated a moment. Then he followed. He stood on the hearth-rug with his back to the wood fire. He did not speak.
It was an idea after her own heart. She patted her companion affectionately on the shoulder. "Come along, then," she said. "Open the door with your latchkey. It's getting cold and I am longing for something to eat. This kind of thing makes me hungry." The door opened and then closed again softly, and the conspirators had vanished.
He consulted a railroad time table, after which he called for a taxicab and directed the chauffeur to take him home. He entered the house with his latchkey and climbed the stairs to his room. Divesting himself of coat and vest, he stepped before the mirror and shaved off his gray mustache.
Fink-Nottle had also left his latchkey on the mantelpiece of his bedchamber." "He could have rung the bell." "He did ring the bell, sir, for some fifteen minutes. At the expiration of that period he recalled that he had given permission to the caretaker the house was officially closed and all the staff on holiday to visit his sailor son at Portsmouth." "Golly, Jeeves!" "Yes, sir."
I may mention in passing that I have a latchkey to this place." A few minutes later Venner found himself walking down the deserted streets with his fair little companion hanging on his arm. She chattered to him very prettily and daintily, but there was a great deal in her remarks which conveyed nothing to him at all.
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