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Not one man that I knew in the whole metropolis would or did accompany me. I called at Cobbett's lodgings, in Catherine-street, and asked the young ones, rather sarcastically, if they meant to attend the meeting? to which they answered, that their father had left positive orders that they should not go over the threshhold of the door that day.
His air was fierce, his step oblique, his look sanguinary. Such was the character of one of the leaders in the Southampton insurrection. All Negroes were arrested who were found beyond their master's threshhold, and all strange whites watched with a great degree of alacrity. Such was the position in which Clotel found affairs when she returned to Virginia in search of her Mary.
But they saw the fallen editor pick himself up, with a face of stupefied wonder, and immediately start back toward the angry proof-reader. Mr. Pat lowered redly on his threshhold. "G'awn now! Get away!" Queed came to a halt a pace away and stood looking at him. "G'awn, I tell ye! I don't want no more of your foolin'!"
Colonel Forrester had gained his threshhold, and had already knocked for admittance, when he heard the deep voice of Matilda at his ear, exclaiming in a triumphant tone, "Think you twice then to escape your doom, traitor?" Before he could make an attempt to shield himself, the fatal steel had entered deep into his side.
But Thady followed on, as though to make good his acquaintanceship, and was met at the threshhold by Wheelwright himself, who had been aroused by the clamor. "And plase your honor," says Thady, "can you tell me where is Misther Whalewright's boardin'-school that was, that's called the siminary that is?" "That was sure enough, said Wheelwright, bitterly.
And yet there was no word from Madame Raffoni, the only holder of the secret of Irma Gluyas' life. His foot was on the threshhold to leave at last, when Arthur Ferris calmly entered. Randall Clayton mastered himself with a mighty effort, as Ferris glibly murmured, "I am only here for a few moments! Come into the private office."
"I do not believe that people in the city will be interested in what the three boys are doing," said Mrs. Maxa, smiling a little. That same moment the door was flung wide open. With a triumphant face as if she wanted to say, "Just look whom I bring you here," Mäzli stood on the threshhold leading Apollonie in. The latter hastily retreated.
Here and there tufts of snowdrops were in full bloom, white, frail bells, looking as if they had known only cheerless hours and cold sunbeams, and wept and shrank and feared through them. As they went into the house, Ducie gathered a few; but at the threshhold, Charlotte turned, and saw them in her hand. A little fear and annoyance came into her face.
There stood the young conqueror of Lepanto, his brain full of schemes, his heart full of hopes, on the threshhold of the Netherlands, at the entrance to what he believed the most brilliant chapter of his life schemes, hopes, and visions doomed speedily to fade before the cold reality with which he was to be confronted.
There stood the young conqueror of Lepanto, his brain full of schemes, his heart full of hopes, on the threshhold of the Netherlands, at the entrance to what he believed the most brilliant chapter of his life schemes, hopes, and visions doomed speedily to fade before the cold reality with which he was to be confronted.
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