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And as he had the greatest command over himself, he actually did not shed another tear, not even when the farmer got up to go, saying, he could wait no longer. Jem silently went to bring out Lightfoot. The lady now took her seat, where she could see all that passed at the open parlour-window.
In passing the front of the house he had thrown a look in at the parlour-window; and the sight of the prim and proper Hempel on his knees on the woolly hearthrug so tickled his sense of humour that, having spluttered out the news, back he went to the passage, where he crouched down before the parlour-door and glued his eye to the keyhole. "Oh, Purdy, no! What if the door should suddenly fly open?"
And then he saw the lights of the bridge to Nowhere, and all of a sudden he was in the glare of the shimmering parlour-window of Lonely House; and he heard voices there pronouncing words, and the voices were nowise human, and but for his bitter need he had screamed and fled.
The sight of a group of children at a parlour-window brings him into your front garden, where he establishes his instrument with all the deliberation of a proprietor of the premises. He is pretty sure to begin his performance in the middle of a tune, with a hiccoughing kind of sound, as though the pipes were gasping for breath.
Mind, you'll be peaceable?" "Ay ay! Some'at to eat; give us some'at to eat." John Halifax called out to Jael; bade her bring all the food of every kind that there was in the house, and give it to him out of the parlour-window. She obeyed I marvel now to think of it but she implicitly obeyed.
Monsieur de Gemosac and his companion were sitting on the bench outside the inn, leaning against the sill of their own parlour-window, which stood open. The Captain had changed his clothes, and now wore those in which he went to church and to the custom-house when in London or other large cities.
You see, she said 'mistress, though there was a hat hanging up in the hall, and it would have been more natural to have said 'master. But Betty shut the door in her face, and came up to me, and we got the spoons together, and sat in the parlour-window watching till we saw Thomas Jones going from his work, when we called to him and asked him to take care of us into the town."
The old inn used to stand slap opposite the church; and there, in the parlour-window, were assembled all the Duke's men Squire Martin and his son, Roger Newte, John a Hall, the Parson, and, all the rest of the gang as well to see how the people would take it as to give the timorous Overseers a backing.
But I took little heed of them, looking in dull wonderment at John Fry, and Smiler, and the blunderbuss, and Peggy. John Fry was scratching his head, I could see, and getting blue in the face, by the light from Cop's parlour-window, and going to and fro upon Smiler, as if he were hard set with it.
Again the prisoner had scored, and again the audience exchanged approving glances which plainly said: "He's clever enough for them all!" Then the Court continued the examination. Q. Were you upon the Darrow estate when Mr. Darrow met his death? A. Yes, your Honour. Q. Where? A. Just outside the eastern parlour-window, your Honour. Q. Did you strike the blow which caused Mr. Darrow's death?
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