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Now when a man in the upper room of a fairly tall tower, access to which is gained by a covered staircase the door at the bottom of which he knows he has locked, hears a tap at the window, he is likely to be startled. Lodloe was so startled that his chair nearly tipped over backward. Turning quickly, he saw a man's head and shoulders at the opposite window, the sash of which was raised.
Be firm, be decided; it knows what you want, and it will do it." At this instant the baby opened its mouth, uttered a wild wail, and continued wailing. Lodloe laughed. "That didn't seem to work," said he; and to quiet the little creature he agitated the vehicle, shook before the child his keys, and showed it his watch, but the wails went on with persistent violence.
Bracing himself against the window-frame, he reached out his hand, and in a few moments Mr. Beam had scrambled into the room. Lodloe turned up the wick of his lamp, and by the bright light he looked at his visitor. He saw a man rather long as to legs, and thin as to face, and dressed in an easy-fitting suit of summer clothes. "Take a seat," said Lodloe, "and tell me to what I owe this call."
I do not know the Rockmores of Germantown, but if it were necessary I would immediately go and find them, and make their acquaintance I should have no difficulty in doing it, I assure you, but it is not necessary. I staid last night with Mr. Lodloe, who occupies the top room of your tower. Don't jump out of your boots.
And now it seems to me that if we want any supper we had better be getting back to the inn." "It's not a bad idea," said Miss Calthea Rose, when she was left to herself; "but it shall not be in a class. No, indeed! I will take good care that it shall not be in a class." When Walter Lodloe walked to Lethbury because he could not talk to Mrs.
When Lodloe and Beam reached Lethbury, the latter proposed that they should go and worry Calthea Rose; and to his companion's surprised exclamation at being asked to join in this diversion Lanigan answered, that having been used to that sort of thing all his life, it seemed the most natural sport in which to indulge now that he found himself in Lethbury again.
"Well," said Lanigan Beam, leaning back in his chair, "that's all of my bright side, is it?" "Not quite," said Lodloe; "Mr. Tippengray declared that you are the first man he ever heard of who did not possess a single good point; that you must be very interesting, and that he would like to know you." "Noble Tippengray!" said Mr. Beam. "And he's the man who is chumming it with Calthea?"
Walter was a strong young fellow and had had some practice in boxing, but it was not impossible that, even with the backing of justifiable indignation, the conventional blow straight from the shoulder might have failed to fell the tall deck-hand. But even had Lodloe succeeded in stretching the insulting man upon the dirty deck, it is not at all probable that he would have staid there.
In her heart she knew that she wanted those flowers, but the knowledge had come so suddenly, so unexpectedly, and so unreasonably, that she did not even look at them, and clasped her fingers together more tightly. "Some one is coming," said Lodloe. "Tell me quickly, must these flowers be dropped?" Steps could plainly be heard not far away. Mrs. Cristie looked up.
If I had not this summer-house, I should want that room; but I am afraid, however, if I had it, I should look out of the window a great deal and translate a very little." "What do you translate?" asked Lodloe, with interest. "At present," said Mr. Tippengray, "I am engaged in translating into Greek some of the standard works of our modern literature.
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