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Updated: May 10, 2025
My thoughts were back in Sussex, and I was dreaming of the kindly, simple ways of the country, when there came a rat-tat at the knocker, the ring of a hearty voice, and there, in the doorway, was the smiling, weather-beaten face, with the puckered eyelids and the light blue eyes. "Why, Roddy, you are grand indeed!" he cried.
Esmeralda was just rising to leave when a loud rat-tat at the knocker made Sylvia's heart leap in expectation; and the next moment Jack came into the room in his most easy and assured manner.
Thorndyke, they have taken her to prison to prison think of it! My poor Edith!" "We'll soon have her out," said Thorndyke. "But listen; there is someone at the door." A brisk rat-tat confirmed his statement; and when I rose to open the door, I found myself confronted by Inspector Badger. There was a moment of extreme awkwardness, and then both the detective and Mr.
The detective changed the conversation abruptly. "What do you propose doing, Mr. Brett?" "I purpose reading a chapter in 'The Stowmarket Mystery, written by your friend, Mr. Holden." They heard a loud rat-tat on the outer door. "Probably," continued Brett, "this is its title." Smith entered with a telegram. It was in the typed capitals usually associated with Continental messages.
Esther had just finished making her pudding, and Poppy had that moment succeeded in inveigling Angela into the cupboard under the stairs and turning the key on her, when footsteps came up the path, a letter dropped in through the letter-box, and a postman's rat-tat sounded to the furthermost corner of the little house.
Dinner had been over about half an hour one Sunday afternoon. the only day on which for years I had been able to enjoy a dinner and I was leisurely sipping a glass of wine, when a carriage drove rapidly up to the door, a loud rat-tat followed, and my friend Dr. Curteis, to my great surprise, was announced.
It was an unusual knock, soft and low, not like the landlady's irritated summons, or Crowder's brusque rat-tat. In answer to his "Come in," the door swung slowly back and in the aperture appeared Fong. He wore the Chinaman's outdoor costume, the dark, loose upper garment fastening tight round the base of the throat, the short, wide trousers, and on his head a black felt hat.
"Sure it's grateful I am it wasn't a fifteen-shilling pig or a twenty-shilling one." The Kanaka helmsman put the wheel down, and the Malahini slipped into the eye of the wind and righted to an even keel. Her head-sails emptied, there was a rat-tat of reef-points and quick shifting of boom-tackles, and she was heeled over and filled away on the other tack.
The good French pastor, who struggled to discharge the offices of religion in that impoverished and for the most part socially abandoned spot, had just allowed himself to be persuaded by his wife that it was unnecessary to visit his sick parishioner at the other end of the island that afternoon, when a loud rat-tat was heard in the midst of a shriek of wind, through a grudged inch of open door-way.
Clark muttered something under his breath, and, in a mechanical fashion, began to build little castles with the draughts. He was just about to add to an already swaying structure when a thundering rat-tat- tat at the door dispersed the draughts to the four corners of the room. The servant opened the door, and the next moment ushered in Mrs. Bowman's visitor.
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