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Updated: May 14, 2025
Over the stair-rail lay an open space of such stately dimensions, bounded by terminal lines of decoration so distant in the faint candle-flicker, that the young country minister could think of no word but "palatial" to fit it all. At the head of the flight, Celia led the way along a wide corridor to where it ended.
She had come out to see who wanted her maid, suspecting some trick of Falconer's; and, leaning over the stair-rail, had recognised my voice. "What is it, Bert? Why don't you come up?" "I can't I'm in haste," I blundered. "Good morning!" "But wait! What's wrong? A moment, I entreat! Nay, you shall !" And at that she came tripping swiftly down the stairs.
"The knocking kept up, and just as I was about to call Liddy, she ran through the room and out into the hall. I got up then, feeling weak and dizzy, and put on my dressing-gown. If it was Arnold, I knew I must see him. "It was very dark everywhere, but, of course, I knew my way. I felt along for the stair-rail, and went down as quickly as I could.
With what stupendous and untranslatable coolness he says this, and how loungingly he leads on to the women's side: making, as he goes, a kind of iron castanet of the key and the stair-rail! Each cell door on this side has a square aperture in it.
I whirled, facing her, indignant at the words, and yet understanding as swiftly the reason for her suspicions. "It is Captain Le Gaire. I have just found him lying here." "Found him! Yes, but not lying there; I heard the noise, the fall of his body. Is is he dead?" She stood grasping the stair-rail, shrinking back from closer approach, her white face horror-stricken.
McRankine came courtin', and that's lang by-gane I mind I had a green gown, passementit, that was thocht to become me to admiration. I was nae just exactly what ye would ca' bonny; but I was pale, penetratin', and interestin'." And she leaned over the stair-rail with a candle to watch my descent as long as it should be possible. It was but a little party of Mr.
I learned the next day, from one of the negro policemen who had been called in, that the snake had got out of the room where I left him, and that he had been found on the stair-rail, a floor below where I had confronted him. My informant told me he had killed him as he was crawling along the rail, on his way down another flight. "He was only tryin' to git away, sah," added the policeman.
"Had ye no drink when ye first returned, then?" He poured a smaller cupful of foaming ale from the great silver jug and brought it to Phoebe. Rebecca clutched the stair-rail for support, and, with eyes ready to start from her head, she leaned forward, incredulous, as Phoebe took the cup from the merchant's hand. Then she could keep silence no longer.
Hawk's petition has been granted and the road is in the hands of a receiver." Kent dashed his fist upon the stair-rail. "Who is the man?" he demanded. "Major Jim Guilford," said Hunnicott. Then, as footfalls coming stairward were heard in the upper corridor, he locked arms with Kent, faced him about and thrust him out over the door-stone. "Let's get out of this.
The woman was erect and haughty, enveloped in her black Spanish mantilla; the man clung to the stair-rail, walked more slowly and as if fatigued, the collar of his light top-coat standing up from a back slightly bent, which was shaken by convulsive sobs. "Let us be off, Nabob. Nothing more to be done here," said the old beau, taking Jansoulet by the arm and leading him out.
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