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'Third-floor, left, pronounced the flunkey, thus giving the tablets the force of his authority. As Henry was wafted aloft in the elevator, with the beautiful and innocuous flunkey as travelling companion, he could not help contrasting that official with the terrible Powellian caretaker who haunted the Powellian stairs.
In the case of the Vernons there was obviously no alternative, for the third-floor landing window possessed qualifications far in excess of any other, but with the Garnetts two rival factions fought a wordy combat in favour of the boys' room and the little eerie inhabited by Lavender, each of which occupied equally good sites. "Stick to it!
Simon Arnheim, a red portfolio under one arm, walked into the mahogany, green-carpeted, soft-lighted establishment of an importing house on Fifth Avenue. Mrs. S.S. Schlimberg, senior member, greeted him in her third-floor office behind the fitting-rooms. "Well, well! Wie geht's, Arnheim? I thought it was gettin' time for you." Mr. Arnheim shook hands and settled himself in a chair beside the desk.
My friend saw that I admired the things. 'They are my latest acquisitions in the way of art, he said; they are done by a poor fellow who lives in a shabby third-floor near the Luxembourg an Englishman called Austin. If you admire them so much, you might as well order a set of them.
Each of the third-floor rooms on this side of the hotel was provided with a similar balcony, having a carved-wood balustrade. However, the young priest's surprise was very great, for he had scarcely stepped outside when he suddenly saw a woman protrude her head over the balcony next to him that of the room occupied by the gentleman whom M. de Guersaint and the servant had been speaking of.
A very cheap revolver lurked in the hip-pocket of which Billy was so proud. In his third-floor back bed-sitting-room in Judd Street, London, W.C., he had promised himself a moment when that hip-pocket should be referred to, just in that way.
She only knew that Maurice seemed to like them which meant that her society "wasn't enough for him "! So she tried to make it enough for him. Dinner over, she was uneasy until she had dragged her eager-eyed young husband up to the desert island of their third-floor front a dingy room, with a black-marble mantelpiece, and a worn and frowzy carpet.
Every moment she recalled more strongly that it had been home home. Of course it had not been the third-floor back room so much as it had been the Cupps who made it so, who had regarded her as a sort of possession, who had liked to serve her, and had done it with actual affection. "I shall have to find a new place," she kept saying. "I shall have to go among quite strange people."
What happened within the next few minutes in the stuffy little room of Professor Cassidy's third-floor "gymnasium" marks an epoch in the professor's life he still talks of it, and doubtless shall until the Great Referee counts him out in the Last Round. The two men sparred for a moment, gaging one another. Then Battling Dago Pete swung a vicious left that landed square on Billy's face.
Out on the street again he drew full, heaving breath. "O'Farrell's got to clean up. That's all there is to that," he said decisively. "The Doctor thinks?" queried the little physician. Dr. Surtaine shook his head. "I don't know. But I'm sure of one thing. There's three of them ought to be gotten out at once. The third-floor woman, and that brother and sister in the basement."
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