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Updated: May 7, 2025
So, walking downstairs, I unlocked and opened the library-door, and found, as I anticipated, the room in utter darkness.
You hard bargainers have no compassion for devoted spinsters." "I tell you my sentiments absolutely." "And you have mine moderately expressed." She recollected the purpose of her morning's visit, which was to engage Dr. Middleton to dine with her, and Sir Willoughby conducted her to the library-door. "Insist," he said.
"But I have not forgiven you that June!" she flashed at him; then she resumed: "The library, too, is the same as ever. Do you remember how we used to read Maupassant together in there?" Kseniya Ippolytovna approached the library-door, opened it, and went in.
As the old man, with his harsh old voice, thus spoke, he unknotted his handkerchief and bet the rain-drops from his hat upon his knee. The servant knocked at the library-door, where he found Sir Bale. "Well, what's the matter?" cried Sir Bale sharply, from his chair before the fire, with angry eyes looking over his shoulder. "Here's 't sir cumman, Sir Bale," he answered.
I was trembling very much; the hall below was dimly lit by a large lamp which had been turned low. Our steps on the bare staircase made so much noise, though we tried to move so silently. It was weird and awful. I clung to Richard's hand in silence. He led me across the hall, and stopped before the library-door.
Now what Lady Hartledon had really thought was that the visitor was Mr. Carr; her husband was going to steal a quiet half-hour with him; and Hedges was in the plot. She had not lived with Hartledon the best part of a year without learning that Hedges was devoted heart and soul to his master. She opened the library-door.
After I had refused to do this, he said he would very likely break his neck when he jumped, as clearing the pots would mean hitting his head against the window frame. Fearing an explosion of temper, I weakly removed the flower-pots and watched his acrobatic feat with delight. We had not been talking on the sofa for more than five minutes when I heard a shuffle of feet outside the library-door.
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