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From this back passage or court a ladder, with rungs about two feet apart, leads into the Sultan's house, and a step-ladder into the women's house. Two small boys, entirely naked, were incongruous objects sitting at the foot of the ladder. Here we waited for him, two files of policemen being drawn up as a guard of honor. The Sultan sat on a high-backed, carved chair or throne.
Tennyson was more to me than a magic-lantern shape, flitting across the blank of my young experience, never to return. The first time I saw him he was sitting at the table in his library, and Mrs. Tennyson, her very slender hands hidden by thick gloves, was standing on a step-ladder handing him down some heavy books. She was very frail, and looked like a faint tea-rose.
Following the suggestion of the Medium, all present proceed through an intervening apartment to the library where the Medium selects various positions standing upon a lounge, then upon a cushioned chair, next upon a step-ladder and finally upon the side of a book-case but all with a like unsuccessful result, no response by rappings being heard.
Anyway, Bull Dog or no Bull Dog, having made a light, I slid down from my berth no thanks to the step-ladder dangled a few wild seconds in the air, and then offering yes, offering my stockinged feet to the Minotaur, I poked my head into the lower berth.
“The same step-ladder which is exhibited by the whole animal kingdom, the steps of which are the different races and classes, with at the one extreme the lowliest animals and at the other the highest, is exhibited also by every higher animal in its development, since from the moment of its origin until it has reached its full development it passes through—both as regards internal and external organisation—the essentials of all the forms which become permanent for a lifetime in the animals lower than itself.
In the midst of the excitement George Strong came in. "Boys! boys! Be quiet!" cried the teacher. "What is the meaning of so much noise?" And then he, too, caught sight of the dangling teeth. "Who placed those there?" he asked. There was no reply, and he was on the point of sending a cadet for a step-ladder when the door opened and in came Peleg Snuggers with the very thing wanted. "Mr.
His right elbow laid out the governor man on the gridiron, and he made a lane the length of the crowd so wide that a woman could have carried a step-ladder through it without striking against anything. All Mellinger and me had to do was to follow. "It took us just three minutes to get out of that street around to military headquarters, where Mellinger had things his own way.
Opening a trap door in the floor of the room in which they were standing, he led Bennett down a step-ladder into the subterranean chamber in which Tong Wah had so recently been preparing his mysterious potion. As Bennett sank into a chair and passed his hands over his brow in utter weariness, Long Sin poured into a cup some of the liquor of death which Tong Wah had mixed.
There came a shout from the spectators, and then Bang! a puff as if a gun had gone off, and a flash of light, and clouds of white smoke rolling to the ceiling. Women screamed, and one or two threatened to faint; but it was nothing more dangerous than the cameraman of the Independent Press Service, who had hired a step-ladder, and got it set up in a corner of the room, ready for any climax!
Once in that belfry, and truly might the sense of Dante's famous inscription become my motto for life: "Here hope is left behind." I covered my eyes as I recalled that dreary, dreadful prison-house of clock and bell, into which I had clambered once by means of a movable step-ladder, rarely left there by the attendant, in order to rescue my famished cat, shut up there by accident.
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