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"I can't do my tie good unless I got a looking-glass," he explained, and paused to light a cigar. "Have one, sheriff," he said with hospitable urgency. "Get out of here!" shouted the enraged officer. Pete tripped light-footed down the stairs. At the stairfoot the sheriff paused.
Aunt Constance kept close behind him. She was too bewildered to be quite sure, offhand, why Gwen looked so more than dishevelled, as she met them at the stairfoot, earnest with excitement. Not panic-struck at all that was not her way but at highest tension of word and look, as she made the decision of her voice heard: "Oh, there you are, Mr. Pellew. Make yourself useful. Go out and bring her in.
So saying, he rolled, with a nautical gait, towards the door by which the domestic had re-entered the room, and having reached the stairfoot, and finding himself alone, he added, with a sudden snarl, 'I'd like to give three of ye a chance of earning a wooden leg anyhow coming into my house and guzzling my best beer the very minute my back's turned on ye.
Lee at the stairfoot, and, raising his eyes, was aware of Evelyn descending alone and somewhat slowly, all in rose color, and with a smile upon her lips. She was esteemed the most beautiful woman in Virginia, the most graceful and accomplished. Wit and charm and fortune were hers, and the little gay world of Virginia had mated her with Mr. Marmaduke Haward of Fair View.
Gaily they went past before his cool unfriendly eyes, not quickly. In saddles of the leaders, leaping leaders, rode outriders. What was it? Martin Cunningham asked, as they went on up the staircase. The lord lieutenantgeneral and general governor of Ireland, John Wyse Nolan answered from the stairfoot.
Aunt M'riar cultivated this good woman with an eye to information, holding her up as the phrase is now at the stairfoot and inveigling her to tea and gossip. She was a garrulous party when you come to know her, was Mrs. Burr; and indeed, short of intimacy, she might have produced the same impression on any person well within hearing.
"Well," said Constance. "I don't know exactly what they call it. It's a French dog, one of those French dogs." Amy was lingering at the stairfoot. "Good night, Amy, thank you." Amy ascended, shutting the door. "Oh! I see!" Maria muttered. "Well, I never!" It was ten o'clock before sounds above indicated that the first interview between trustee and beneficiary was finished.
Prince Markeld, descending with the earliest, left nothing this time to chance, but took his station at the stairfoot, and waited there with a patience really exemplary. From which it will be seen that Princes in love are much as other men.
The watches of the night had not brought that final solution of the problem which Susie Rushford had hoped for, and she did not know whether to be glad or sorry when she found the Prince at the stairfoot awaiting her. There could be no doubt that he was wholly, undividedly glad one glance at his face told her that and he greeted her in a way that sent a little thrill to her heart.
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