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Its master had risen and was staring with flushed cheeks and shining eyes. A few minutes later we had reached the lodge-gates, a maze of fantastic tracery in wrought iron, with weather-bitten pillars on either side, blotched with lichens, and surmounted by the boars' heads of the Baskervilles.
"Ouf!" cries Florac, playing his whip, as the lodge-gates closed on us, and his team of horses rattled merrily along the road, "what a blessing it is to be out of that vault of a place! There is something fatal in this house in this woman. One smells misfortune there."
And when my Jemmy said "must and shall," I knew very well there was nothing for it: so I sent down fifty guineas to the hunt, and, out of compliment to me, the very next week, I received notice that the meet of the hounds would take place at Squashtail Common, just outside my lodge-gates. I didn't know what a meet was; and me and Mrs.
They had reached the lodge-gates at the beginning of the drive and turned to retrace their steps to the house. "Then we shall never know exactly why Mr. Parrish did this thing?" hazarded Mary. Mr. Manderton darted her a surreptitious glance. "We shall see about that," he said. There was menace in his voice. Mary Trevert stopped. She put her hand on the detective's arm. "Mr.
She had forgotten that Sir John was to wait for her at the lodge-gates. She had forgotten his very existence. For she knew. She had eaten of the tree of knowledge, and the scales had fallen for ever from her eyes. She knew that Maurice loved her and, alas! for her she knew also that she loved him. And between them a great gulf was fixed; deep, and wide, and impassable as the waters of Lethe.
Avery would fain have stopped to greet the child, but Piers would not be persuaded. "No, no! To-morrow!" he said. "The honeymoon isn't over till after to-night." So they waved and were gone, at a speed which made Miss Whalley wonder what the local police could be about. Once past the lodge-gates and Marshall's half-grudging, half-pleased smile of welcome, the speed was doubled.
In winter the county families went to sleep like dormice, so that no strange-calling conveyances passed the lodge-gates at Lapton, and the life of Gabrielle was like that of those sad roses that lingered on the south wall beneath her bedroom window in a state that was neither life nor death. If she had shared Considine's interest in his profession things might have been different.
"At this rate at this rate the patient cannot possibly last till the morning. It is quite hopeless." Walker smiled feebly. "It is a melancholy satisfaction to have my opinion confirmed," he said. "Miss Henson, if you will get Williams to see me as far as the lodge-gates ... it is so late that er " Williams came at length, and the little doctor departed.
About the hour of nine in the evening the concierge heard voices in disputation outside the lodge-gates, and as he hid himself among the shrubberies more men entered, and, being dissatisfied with their work, threw hand-grenades into the mansion and applied a lighted torch to the concierge's humble dwelling.
Their faces relapsed into a natural expression as the horses, clearing the lodge-gates, got into a brisker trot on the open road; and squads of them might have been seen, speckling with black the public-house entrances, with pewter-pots flashing in the sunshine.
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