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Tildy helped her into a dark-brown merino dress, one of her extensive trousseau. Mrs. Martin then went downstairs, prepared to show these visitors that she was "as good as them, if not better." But the glimpse of the carriage and horses which she got through the lobby-window very nearly bowled her over. "Go in, mum, now; you've kept them waitin' long enough.
His shut hand was pressed with all his force to his heart, and the first breath he was conscious of was a deep wild sob or two that quivered from his heart as he looked from the lobby-window upon a landscape which he did not see. All he had ever suffered before was mild in comparison with this dire paroxysm.
Walsingham rode down to the 'Tiled House, where workmen were already preparing to make things a little more comfortable. The towering hall-door stood half open; and down the broad stairs his tall, slim figure, showing black against the light of the discoloured lobby-window his raven hair reaching to his shoulders Mervyn, the pale, large-eyed genius of that haunted place, came to meet him.
It was on a clear, fragrant evening in June, when the world was all in flower, that a whispering, and pulling of skirts and sleeves, and throwing up of hands and eyes, arose among the servants at Ashpound, at a sight that was seen there. The servants' hall were gathered secretly at a side-door and a lobby-window, and were watching Mrs.
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