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Updated: May 21, 2025
To-morrow night, if you do not slam the door, you shall hear about Alice Wibblewobble's new bonnet. When the Wibblewobble family came back to their house after a swim around the pond one bright sunny afternoon, and when the grass on the edges of the water was as green as it could be, Mamma Wibblewobble looked at her children, who were walking ahead of her.
Then they helped him shove open the cabin door, and he felt sure they shut it after him at least he heard it slam and the latch fall sharply into place. And he knew they were waiting just without, waiting for him to do his task. 'Carter! I say, Carter! Percy Cuthfert was frightened at the look on the clerk's face, and he made haste to put the table between them.
To this parting shot Mrs Boyce made no rejoinder; but she hurried out of the church somewhat quicker for it, and closed the door after her with something of a slam. Of all persons clergymen are the most irreverent in the handling of things supposed to be sacred, and next to them clergyman's wives, and after them those other ladies, old or young, who take upon themselves semi-clerical duties.
The candle still burned where I had left it, flickering slightly in some current of air. There was no change that the eye could find, no sound except the rain, yet I felt an extreme reluctance to go on even a step from where I stood. What I wanted to do was to tear open the door behind me, to rush out into the hall and slam the door shut between this room and myself. Why?
Five and twenty shillings a week, and his father threatened to kick him out of the business if he made such a fool of himself as to marry a girl with a crippled mother and a crazy idiot of a boy on her hands. But he would hang about me, till one evening I found the courage to slam the door in his face. I had to do it. I loved him dearly. Five and twenty shillings a week!
They obeyed, and when the wooden lid fell over the sleeping form, shutting it in with a slam, and hiding it from the girl's sight, the barrier gave way which had hitherto restrained her tears and she began to weep bitterly; now, too, the feeling that she had indeed lost her mother took complete possession of her the sense of being an orphan and alone, quite alone in the wide world.
Even yet new ideas blow across some souls like a cold draught, and they naturally get up and shut the door! They have even been known to slam it! The sin of the world has ever been indifference and slothfulness, more than real active wickedness. Life, the real abundant life of one who has a vision of what a human soul may aspire to be, becomes a great struggle against conditions.
Within the mansion there was the mellow rasp of a tin of biscuit on an oven floor, the slam of an oven door, and Mrs. Luce appeared dusting flour from her hands. All who knew Mrs. Luce knew that she was a persistent and insistent exponent of the belief of the Millerites "Go-uppers," they called the sect in Smyrna.
"You must have a man here named Locke, an American, travelling with his daughter." "Gone," said Wilkins. "Left on the Taming to catch the Pacific Mail at Hong Kong." "If that isn't my blooming luck!" moaned Trask, shutting the register with a slam and turning his back to the desk, a picture of limp despair.
Himes started so violently that he disturbed the equilibrium of his chair and brought the front legs to the floor with a slam, so that he sat staring straight ahead. Shade Buckheath whirled and saw Pros Passmore standing at the foot of the steps the moving speck come to full size. The old man was a wilder-looking figure than usual.
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