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The flush in the sky had turned to gold and the air throbbed with light as I hid my portmanteau under the rosebush by the gate and stole up to the study-door. I would not give so palpable a clew to my identity as that: I wished to appear like one who had dropped in for a moment to ask the hour or the loan of a late journal.
"No," cried Glyn, and walking past the man he tapped at the study-door, and in response to the Doctor's deep, "Come in," entered. "What does this mean?" muttered Wrench. "I don't like listening; but if I went there and put my ear to the keyhole I could catch every word; and so sure as I did somebody would come into the hall and find me at it. So I won't go. But what does it mean?
And sometime after, as she happened to pass the study-door, he called her 'Little Lily, come here. And in she came; and there was the doctor, all alone and erect before his bookshelves, plucking down a volume here, and putting up one there, and 'Shut the door, little Lily, said he gently and cheerily, going on with his work.
This once you must let me have my way. Good-night, papa." But for all that, in the dead of the night, she heard the study-door open, and saw Dr. Grey come stealing in to where she sat watching as she was to watch for many a weary day and night beside his boy's pillow. He saw her likewise a figure, the like of which, husband and father as he had been, he had never seen before.
This night and not for the first time either the little maiden of fifteen might have been seen, acting with the energy and self-possession of a woman soothing her mother's hysterical sufferings smoothing her pillow, and finally watching by her until she fell asleep. Then Olive crept downstairs, and knocked at her father's study-door. He said, "Come in," in a dull, subdued tone.
After tea, she returned from the study to her own sitting-room, as was her custom, leaving her father and his curate together. Presently she heard the study-door open, and expected to hear the succeeding clash of the front door. Instead, came a tap; and, "like lightning, it flashed upon me what was coming. He entered. He stood before me.
It was rather uncomfortable to be contradicted in her statement by Mr. Bell's opening the study-door, and calling out: 'Thornton! is that you? Come in for a minute or two; I want to speak to you. So Mr.
One day, while I was spinning out my daily quota of prose, there came a banging at my study-door: 'It's I, Lucie! Come quick: the reds have gone into the blacks' house. Come quick! 'And do you know the road they took? 'Yes, I marked it. 'What! Marked it? How? 'I did what Hop-o'-my-Thumb did: I scattered little white stones along the road. I hurried out.
He flew like lightning there was a slope of three miles and a half we scarce touched the ground the motion was most rapid most impetuous 'twas communicated to my brain my heart partook of it 'By the great God of day, said I, looking towards the sun, and thrusting my arm out of the fore-window of the chaise, as I made my vow, 'I will lock up my study-door the moment I get home, and throw the key of it ninety feet below the surface of the earth, into the draw-well at the back of my house.
He could not afford to send Peter to read with any tutor, but he could read with him himself; and Miss Matty told me much of the awful preparations in the way of dictionaries and lexicons that were made in her father's study the morning Peter began. "My poor mother!" said she. "I remember how she used to stand in the hall, just near enough the study-door, to catch the tone of my father's voice.
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