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He stood in the middle room there were three in a row, with an empty, loft-like room behind and considered where else he could search. He went again to a closet that had been built in with boards behind the chimney.
Suddenly we heard a voice and looked up to see the ticking-aproned manager spluttering: "Well, can't you read?" Up in a loft-like, saw-dusty room where girls were stuffing dolls and daubing red paint on china cheeks, an excited manager declared he was losing his own job. The new woman's trade union league wanted him to pay more than one dollar a week to his girls.
It was full daylight but still very early when they took me from the saddle, and of course I had no idea of the road by which we had come or the country through which we had passed. The blindfold was not removed until we had entered a house and I had been helped up a steep stairway and laid on a bare, corn-shuck mattress. Then I was allowed to look on the bare walls of a loft-like room.
The employees of the editorial room a loft-like chamber crazily crowded with desks, tables, cabinets, benches, files, typewriters; lighted by a smoke-darkened sun and the dim glow of electric bulbs were already launched upon the nervous routine of their day.
At the fourth floor she pushed open a door and showed them into a long loft-like room with high ceiling and mansard windows. There came a squawking and fluttering from somewhere above as they entered. "Them's the cockatoos," said the landlady. "They miss Mr. Spatola very much.
Lighting the topmost landing of the house was a sort of glazed trap, evidently set in the floor of a loft-like place extending over the entire building. Somewhere in the red-tiled roof above, there presumably existed a corresponding skylight or lantern. So I argued; and, ere I had come to any proper decision, another sound, more intimate, came to interrupt me.
Dark as it was inside the shop, it must have been darker along the rat-burrows of stairs, and the loft-like rooms near the roof, but either up above or down below, the scent of cassia and sandal-wood clung everywhere inside the curio shop, smelling strongest around the glass cases and bales of delicate silks.
They examined many places, pleasant and unpleasant. Finally Lewis settled on a great, bare, loft-like room within a few minutes' walk of the flat. "This will do," he said. "Why?" asked Leighton. "Space," said Lewis. "Le Brux taught me that. One must have space to see big." While they were still busy fitting up the atelier a note came to Lewis from Lady Derl.
Lighting the topmost landing of the house was a sort of glazed trap, evidently set in the floor of a loft-like place extending over the entire building. Somewhere in the red-tiled roof above, there presumably existed a corresponding skylight or lantern. So I argued; and, ere I had come to any proper decision, another sound, more intimate, came to interrupt me.
By this time Punch had reached the little loft-like chamber, where Pen was lying beside the water-vessel. "What game's this, comrade?" he whispered, breathless with his exertions. "Hist! Hist!" came from below. "It's all very fine," muttered Punch to himself; and he changed his position, with the result that the boards upon which he knelt creaked once more. "Hist! Hist!" came again from below.
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