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Not a living creature was to be seen, save the dissipated family cat a very Lovelace of a cat that was not allowed a night-key who was sitting on the curbstone opposite, waiting for the hall door to be opened. Three quarters of an hour, we repeat, had passed, when Mrs.
How one wrong follows another!" Ellis had reached his own door. Taking out his night-key, he applied it to the latch; but the door did not open. It had been locked. "Locked out, ha!" he ejaculated quickly; and with a feeling of anger.
He stood beside me under the flare of the gas-jets while I fumbled in my pocket for my night-key I had about decided to invite him in and pump him dry and then said: "'I live a little way from here; don't go in; come home with me. "A strange feeling now took possession of me, which I could not account for.
It's a mussy we wasn't all a-murdered and a-plundered in cold blood, by the light o' the moon! Mr. Jennings's night-key it must have been, to be sure! Boarders must be warned and watched. When Mrs. Toyler's nephew's night-key was found in the door of Number Forty-Seven, the boarders all went off at daylight in an omnibus, takin' away custom and character from the house forever." Now Mr.
"I am nearly frozen." He turned with her up the walk, never speaking a word, very pale in the light of the stars. No one was visible as they left the walk; all around the house and grounds was hushed and still. The house door was locked, but not bolted. Mr. Stanford opened it with a night-key, and they entered, and went upstairs, still in silence.
He had taken the night-key from the former, and put it in his vest pocket; and when he reached the front door of the mansion, the key he wanted was in his chamber, and he had been careful to shut the door when he left the house. He could not get in, and he walked around the building to find a window which had not been closed.
It was after eleven o'clock as we have said, before Mortimer returned. His face was pale and haggard. He entered quietly, by means of his night-key, and went noiselessly up to his chamber. He found his wife lying across the bed, where, wearied with watching, she had thrown herself and fallen asleep. For a few moments he stood looking at her, with a face in which agony and affection were blended.
Phillida closed and bolted the outer doors, and then opened one of the inner ones with a night-key, and made her way to what had been the back parlor of the house.
Woe betide the swain who forgot himself ever so slightly there was no night-key for him after that, nor would any of the girls on any front steps in town ever look his way again when he passed and to their credit be it said, few of the young men either. From that day on the offender became a pariah. He had committed the unpardonable sin.
When you come home tonight you knock; no more tiptoe, night-key business like last time. I knew you was lying to me about the clock." "You gimme that key. I don't want you to have to get up, with all your kicking, to open the door for me. You gimme the key." "If you wanna get in this room when you come home to-night, you knock like any self-respecting girl ain't afraid to do." "You oh you!"
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