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But the sight of Merritt's grim face was too much for him, and he turned and resumed his flight once more. He yelled again as he reached the lodge-gates, but the only response was the barking and howling of the dogs in the thick underwood beyond. There was no help for it. Doubtless the deaf old lodge-keeper had been in bed hours ago. Even the dogs were preferable to Merritt.
Flanders near the lodge-gates. He had steeled himself against the bitterest moment in his life. "Hello," he said, suddenly stepping out of the shrubbery and confronting the pedestrian, who brought himself up with a jerk. "Hello," said Richard. "Getting the air?" "I want to speak to you, Mr. Flanders," said Frederick, with immense gravity. "Come along then, lad, because I'm in a rush.
The children had never been to London, but they knew the direction in which it lay beyond the crumbling kitchen-garden wall, where the wall-flowers grew in a proud colony. The sky looked different there, a threatening quality in it. Both snow and thunderstorm came that way, and the dirty sign-post "London Road" outside the lodge-gates was tilted into the air significantly.
The conversation fell in silence, full of consternation; and all wondered if the two ladies in front had understood, and they were really bar-maids. Be this as it may, they maintained their unalterable reserve; and with suppressed laughter, Mike persuaded Dicky, who had resumed the ribbons, to turn into the lodge-gates. "Who is this Johnny?" shouted Muchross.
I've been ambuscaded. Horse, foot, an' guns, I've been had, an' an' there'll be no holdin' the junior forms after this. M'rover, the 'Ead will send me with a note to Colonel Dabney to ask if what you say about bein' invited was true." "Then you'd better go in by the Lodge-gates this time, instead of chasin' your dam' boys oh, that was the Epistle to King so it was. We-el, Foxy?"
The light from the passage shone in through the half-open door and the great lamp at the lodge-gates of the Court opposite, which was kept burning all night, glared in at the unblinded window, but there was no light in the room. There was something almost malignant to Robin's mind about the searching brilliance of this lamp.
The guests departed, the lodge-gates shut; all is mystery: darkness with one pair of wax candles blinking dismally in a solitary chamber; all the rest dreary vistas of brown hollands, rolled Turkey carpets, gaunt ancestors on the walls scowling out of the twilight blank.
No effort to preserve her shall be neglected. I will stay here for the night." He opened one of the windows to admit more air as he spoke. The view overlooked the drive in front of the house and the road outside. Little groups of people were standing before the lodge-gates, looking in. "If those persons make any noise," said the doctor, "they must be warned away."
He was about to turn in at the lodge-gates with his usual greeting to Mrs. Capper when his attention was caught by a figure coming down the avenue. A man in a long coat, his face ornamented with red whiskers. It required no second glance for recognition. Whiskers and coat proclaimed their owner at once; and if ever Val Elster's heart leaped into his mouth, it certainly leaped then.
Good-night!" The gate closed behind her, and Juliet walked up the path with Columbus trotting sedately by her side. She heard her escort's departing footsteps as she went, and wondered when they would meet again. The church at Little Shale was very ancient and picturesque. It stood almost opposite to the lodge-gates of Shale Court, the abode of the great Mr. Fielding.
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