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Updated: May 25, 2025
In great distress, locking the study-door, I sat down to think. First came visions of an auction sale of a few books and scanty furniture; then of notes and protests; finally the promises of God came into mind. I knew he had promised to supply my wants. 'All things whatsoever ye have need of, came home in great power. I am needy, I have given up business, all, to preach the gospel.
But, all else having been done for the dead and for the living, the time now came for us to take the manuscript from the safe and hand it over to the publisher. So, one dark morning, Jaffery and I unlocked the study-door and entered the gloom-filled, barren room. The curtains were drawn apart, and the blinds drawn up, and the windows framed squares of unilluminating yellow. It was bitterly cold.
So dinna fash yourself and me mair about it." "I'd like to see him, anyhow," said he, taking a step towards the study-door. "But you'll no' see him about any such matter," and Janet placed herself before him. "I'm no' to hae the minister vexed with the like o' that nonsense to-night, or any night. I wonder you dinna think shame, to hold up your face to me, forby the minister.
The study-door was open, the fire expiring, the books and papers pushed back; and James's fierce, restless tread was heard pacing vehemently about his own room. Louis ran hastily up, and entered at once.
Making her way to the study-door, she pushed it open to see if anybody was there previous to asking for a light. At first she could see nobody. On the table, which was covered with papers, there stood two candles, a brandy-bottle, and a glass.
In another minute we were at work upon the study-door, I with the tiny lantern and the bottle of rock-oil, he with the brace and the largest bit. The Yale lock he had given up at a glance. It was placed high up in the door, feet above the handle, and the chain of holes with which Raffles had soon surrounded it were bored on a level with his eyes.
"The evening after his funeral a member of the household passing the study-door was startled at seeing in the pale moonlight a long, ghostly white face peering in at the window. "It was only Peter, that had slipped his halter and wandered round to the old place looking for his master.
But before they quitted their stronghold one of their number, by diligent searching, had found in the lock of a neighbouring study-door a key which would fit theirs. Repairing, therefore, the catch, damaged by their late forcible entry, they calmly locked the door behind them when they went, and affixed to it, in the identical place where the other notice had hung, "Fifth Form. Private study.
But please do not refer again to" she glanced in a manner at once furtive and sorrowful, in the direction of the study-door "to the ... little arrangement of"... She passed on, with the slow, gliding gait, which, together with her fragility, sometimes lent her an almost phantomesque appearance. But as a man of business, Mr. Soames was not fully satisfied. He selected an evening when Mrs.
It closed with a spring, and in the next moment the study-door was also softly shut, and all was still. My resolution was promptly taken.
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