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Updated: June 15, 2025
Here were groups of slatternly, unkempt women, some of whom stared at him with brazen faces, while others slunk away, not quite lost to shame. At last they came to a rickety stair-way, and as they neared the top, Bull-dog whispered: "There's some of 'em now; that tall feller is Faro Dick, he deals down stairs, and the little, black feller is Slicky, and that short, fat one, that's Brocky Joe."
I can't stand it any longer, I do love you, I must kiss you. Let's go into one of the houses." "But, my lady " I interposed. "Gregor?" She entered the next open corridor and ascended a few steps of the dark stair-way; then she threw her arms about me with passionate tenderness and kissed me. "Oh, Severin, you were very wise.
I sprang out of bed and the crackling of the timbers, the glow of the flames, and the stifling smoke, soon assured me it was time to move, and quickly at that. I grabbed up a few clothes in one arm, and grasping brave little Jimmie Swanson in the other, I started for the steps. On our side, the whole house was in flames, and the smoke rushing up the stair-way was something awful.
Descending into the rock was a stair-way, the steps whereof were smoothed as though many feet had trodden them; and down these steps he promptly went, holding the lighted match before him these Mexican wax-matches are as good as tapers and having with him the full box of matches should further light be required.
But he did not speak, and I hoped that he was nerving himself to bear manfully this sore trial. For the rest of us, we had but one thought: to get our packs up the stair-way as quickly as possible and at its quickest this work would be slowly and painfully done and then once more go forward.
The latter showed Wilder, in profound silence, up a private stair-way, into the very attic of the building. Here he rapped lightly at a door, and was bid to enter, by a voice that caused our adventurer to start by its deepness and severity.
All being thus in readiness for our advance, we went down the stair-way beneath the swinging statue, and from beneath pulled out the piece of rock which propped up the great mass of stone. With a heavy jar it fell and closed the passage-way, and we prepared to start. Just then Fray Antonio remembered that he had left on a ledge in the cave that we had used as a shelf for the storage of various small matters during our sojourn there a little volume that he dearly loved: the Meditations of Thomas
Oh, how thankful she was to get away from them away from the sight of the pomp and the splendor to cry her heart out, all alone, for a few moments! With a grateful murmured "Thank you," she stepped from the long French window out on to the porch and down the private stair-way into the grounds.
They all descended the stair-way leading to the lower part of the yacht, and Macfarlane asked as he followed his host "Is the lass vera bonnie did ye say?" "Bonnie's not the word for it this time," said Lorimer, coolly answering instead of Errington. "Miss Gueldmar is a magnificent woman.
The distant Beech Walk looked black and grim and ghostly in the weird light. A great clock high up in a windy turret struck eight. A moment after the door of my lady's dressing-room opened. A dark, shrouded figure emerged, flitted swiftly down the long gallery, down the stair-way, and vanished.
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