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I'll do the trick, an' I'll git the reward, an' it's married we'll be inside of a month, an' we'll go West. That's what brought me up here into the mountains me that was born, as ye might say, on the stair-steps of a tenement-house, an' fetched up the same." Absorbed in the interest of his own affairs, the Irishman did not notice what revelations he had made.
It was like four pairs of stairs that starts broad at the bottom and slants up and comes together in a point at the top, only these stair-steps couldn't be clumb the way you climb other stairs; no, for each step was as high as your chin, and you have to be boosted up from behind.
There was a feller come to the Sunday-school once, and had a picture of them, and made a speech, and said the biggest pyramid covered thirteen acres, and was most five hundred foot high, just a steep mountain, all built out of hunks of stone as big as a bureau, and laid up in perfectly regular layers, like stair-steps. Thirteen acres, you see, for just one building; it's a farm.
There was rather an odd quality in Jack's tone. "Won't have to? What do you mean?" "You've questioned me a lot, mother. I'd like to put a few leading questions to you. And u'm alone. Olivetta," he remarked pleasantly, "do you know that Sherlock Holmes found it an instructive and valuable occupation to count the stair-steps in a house? Suppose you run out for five minutes and count 'em.
A slight bit of temper rose in a flush to my cheeks, as I watched Caroline Lellyett sit on the steps and feed cake to one twin and two stair-steps with as much hunger in her eyes for them as there was in theirs for the cake. Lee Greenfield is the responsible party in this case, and she has been loving him hopelessly for fifteen years.
Jolly lot of girls, like stair-steps, from eight to eighteen, but not a bit like Una, Roger, and the mother, placid, serene, intelligent with a dignity that seems to go with the house and neighborhood a dear old lady, not so terribly old, either, and astonishingly well informed Fine old house, refreshing, cool, mellow with age and decent associations; none of your Louis Quinze business there.
August the Strong, grandly visiting here, 1708, on finish of those stair-steps cut for you, set up an Ebenezer, or Column of Memorial at this Hunting-Hut, with Inscription which can still be read, though now with difficulty in its time-worn state:
Following downward, by a dangerous way like stair-steps, they entered at length a small shady amphitheatre, where a waterfall plunged down a gorge and foamed and thundered. Nanking fairly danced with delight. "Oh!" he exclaimed, "I have seen paintings of cascades in Holland, but nothing like this. My mother and Elsje must come here."
The favorite hue of the farmer's wife was lead. Those hearthstones lead! The strip of oilcloth covering the washstand lead! The closet in the wall containing her things lead! The stair-steps outside lead! The porches down below lead! Gabriella sometimes wondered whether this woman might not have had lead-colored ancestors.
Time doesn't do much to people in a place like the Harpeth Valley, that is out of the stream of modern progress; and most of my friends seem to have just been sitting still, rocking their lives along in the greatest ease and comfort. Still, Mamie Hall has three more kiddies, which, added to the four she had when I left, makes a slightly high, if charming, set of stair-steps.
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