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There were no windows, and the only means of lighting and ventilating the room was a sky-light; but this was now covered with heavy linen, undoubtedly for the purpose of concealing what was passing within from any spy who might be seized with a fancy for a promenade on the roof. At one end of the room, and separated from it by a thick curtain, was an alcove.
I cried, in an excited whisper, and I pointed up at the sky-light, across which a shadow lay, cast by the newly-risen sun which had flooded the cabin with gold. "Listening, eh?" said Mr Brymer, and stepping softly on one side, he took one of the guns, and, with a sudden motion, thrust it through. There was a bound and the rush of feet as the shadow disappeared.
"I want you, boys, to go up into the garret, and under the sky-light you will see a large box. Open this box, and you will find it filled with feathers. Select from these feathers three or four which are the most downy and soft about the stem, and bring them down to me." "What are they for?" said Rollo. "I will tell you," replied his mother, "when you have brought them to me."
Ante, ii.171, iv.75; also post, May 15, 1784. Johnson, on May 1, 1780, wrote of the exhibition dinner: 'The apartments were truly very noble. The pictures, for the sake of a sky-light, are at the top of the house; there we dined, and I sat over against the Archbishop of York. See how I live when I am not under petticoat government. Piozzi Letters, ii. 111.
A temporary easement of the Arangi's rolling gave him his opportunity, so that his forefeet were over the high combing of the companion when the next big roll came. He held on by main strength of his bent forelegs, then scrambled over and out on deck. Amidships, squatting on the deck near the sky-light, he investigated several of the boat's crew and Lerumie.
I shall have been to sea two years come next month," was the reply. "Two years, eh! Why, you are a perfect veteran, a regular old sea-dog, Francisco," continued Courtenay as he exhaled a wreath of pale-blue smoke from his pursed-up lips and watched it go curling in fantastic wreaths up through the open sky-light. "And have you been all that time in the Pinta?" "Yes, senor, all that time.
Well, I'm sorry, for I should have liked Richard Yorke to have had his chance here." It was the evening of the day after Yorke had listened to his own biography, and night had long fallen upon the shivering woods of Crompton; the rain fell heavily also upon roof and sky-light with thud and splash.
She tried the second and the third, and they stood locked too. And the three keys had all been removed. "To think of the master locking the doors!" said she to herself after failing at each in turn. "As if I'd have tried to open them!" That top storey was of the semi-attic kind, with roofs that sloped and a sky-light in one of them and the slates close overhead.
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