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Updated: September 26, 2025
So wholly unexpected was the question, that for a moment I failed to grasp it. Then "Milk!" I began. "Exactly, Petrie! If you can find me some milk, I shall be obliged." I turned to descend to the kitchen, when "The remains of the turbot from dinner, Petrie, would also be welcome, and I think I should like a trowel." I stopped at the stairhead and faced him.
From the stairhead Jim watched him take a seat by the window, and, the suitcase at his feet, pick up a paper and begin to read. It was a rule of the Whatcheer House that a vacated room was subjected to a "thorough cleaning." Translated this meant a run over the floor with a carpet sweeper and a change of sheets.
But, after half a dozen steps, the darkness resolved; there was first the dusk of dawn, and soon a burst of mellow light, when he reached the stairhead and stepped out into the loft.
Down the center of the hall, leading to a gallery, was a magnificent stairway of marble and lapis lazuli, carpeted with long Bokhara strips so well joined end to end that the whole looked like one piece. And at the top of those stairs Yasmini stood waiting, her golden hair illuminated by glass lamps on either marble column at the stairhead.
He reached the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Genevieve at last, and from the stairhead he saw a light in Goriot's room; the old man had lighted a candle, and set the door ajar, lest the student should pass him by, and go to his room without "telling him all about his daughter," to use his own expression. Eugene, accordingly, told him everything without reserve.
The audience were requested to go below quickly, but at the same time were cautioned against crowding, as the stair was rather steep and temporary. As they did not start at once, he came off the stage and led the way, going on down the stairs, and calling gayly to the rest to follow. Windham had got to the stairhead by this time.
In the days of the Jameses few of the crowd could read, and still fewer had the chance of reading. A ballad flying from voice to voice across the country, sung at the ingle-neuk, repeated from one to another in the little crowd at a "stairhead," in which the grossest humorous view was the best adapted for the people, represented popular literature.
He rushed away to the stairhead till Haigh shouted, "Put on your trousers, man, first!" and then he turned to his own bedroom. "He don't take a whipping well," said I, as the gaunt figure disappeared. "Ruffle a fanatic," said Haigh, "and you'll soon see that he's all superfluous nerves and useless springs." N. C. Pether, which bears upon the main narrative.
And, under that fearful impact, Rhuburger reeled back from the stairhead, and went crashing down the steps, to the broad stone flagging at the bottom. Not once, during that meteoric, shriek-punctured downward flight, did Lad loose his grip on the torn forearm. But as the two struck the flagging at the bottom, he shifted his hold, with lightning speed; stabbing once more for the exposed jugular.
But he, unknowing neither suspecting aught thereof and thinking to go to most honourable place and to a lady of quality, entered the house without hesitation, preceded by the serving-maid, who called her mistress and said, 'Here is Andreuccio, and mounting the stair, saw the damsel come to the stairhead to receive him.
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