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Updated: June 20, 2025
Natalie picked up the discarded clothing, which crackled stiffly under her touch and parted from the bare boards with a tearing sound. "Frozen! The idea!" said she. Eliza poked among the other garments which hung against the wall and found them also rigid. The nail-heads behind them were coated with ice.
The continual kickings I received some on my legs and body, but mostly upon that portion of the frame which it is considered equally indecorous to present either to a friend or an enemy at length bent one or two of the nail-heads which held me, and, tearing the upper leather off my boot, which fortunately was old, ripped it off, leaving me at length free.
Hunt steered for this bay, gliding with remarkable skill between the rocky points which stuck up here and there. One would have thought he knew his way among them. We disembarked on a stony coast. The stones were covered with sparse lichen. The tide was already ebbing, leaving uncovered the sandy bottom of a sort of beach strewn with black blocks, resembling big nail-heads.
As, however, we shall not probably be led either to Bergamo or Bologna, I may mention here a curiously rich use of the dentil, entirely covering the foliation and tracery of a niche on the outside of the duomo of Bergamo; and a roll, entirely incrusted, as the handle of a mace often is with nails, with massy dogteeth or nail-heads, on the door of the Pepoli palace of Bologna.
Only here and there, a despised one shrank away into a corner, and tried to get a little quiet with a book, in the midst of the noise; but all the practical ones thought of nothing else but counting nail-heads all the afternoon even though they knew they would not be allowed to carry so much as one brass knob away with them. But no it was "Who has most nails?
I ascended the steps with a little misgiving, for I thought that perhaps some cantankerous person whose family had seen better times might be living there, and that my questions as to food and drink might meet with surly answers. I knocked, nevertheless, with my stick upon the old door studded with nail-heads.
It was then that we carried these wedding things up here and locked them in this old square trunk with the brass nail-heads. And we thought that life for us both was over. "Cynthy's father was glad to have her home. He sold the hotel and never went near it. He tried in every way to make up to Cynthy and his wife.
It was thickly ornamented with nail-heads and looked like an old muniment chest. "Yes that's the standard!" said Madam Stolpe, but she checked herself in alarm. Mason Stolpe knitted his brows. "Ah, well, you're a decent fellow, after all," he said. "One needn't slink on tiptoe in front of you!" He took a key out of a secret compartment in his writing-table.
It was thickly ornamented with nail-heads and looked like an old muniment chest. "Yes that's the standard!" said Madam Stolpe, but she checked herself in alarm. Mason Stolpe knitted his brows. "Ah, well, you're a decent fellow, after all," he said. "One needn't slink on tiptoe in front of you!" He took a key out of a secret compartment in his writing-table.
It was superior to any door we had "wakened" that afternoon made of pale, cinnamon-coloured wood, and immensely wide, carved up above and brightened with great fork-like hinges and nail-heads as large as pennies. A vastly stout slave, smart in proportion, opened the door, and said something in Arabic to Miss Banks, which, translated, intimated that a large tea party was going on within.
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