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Also, he informed her that there was no way positively no way practicable even for a monkey or a bird of following further. He was a sweeper-intimate acquaintance of creeper ladders, trap-doors, gutters drains, and byways; she realized at once that there would be no wisdom in attempting to find within an hour what he had not discovered in a lifetime.
The friar, who was seemingly an aged man, muttered his thanks, and the girl retired and closed the door, locking it behind her. No sooner was the door closed than the mendicant monk whistled a low but very distinct note, and lo! two men appeared upon the scene. It looked as though they had just come up trap-doors in the earth, so suddenly did they show in sight.
To catch their victims with the greater certainty, there were trap-doors in the pavement of the most frequented streets, which, when touched, let the wayfarer down into a deep cellar, and into a kettle of boiling water, surrounded by cut-throats who made all escape from the kettle impossible.
In the year 1853, the Duke of Buccleuch had three holes dug in the turf within a few yards of one another, at the western end of the nave; and the old tesselated pavement of the abbey was thus discovered. These holes were afterwards surrounded by brickwork, and protected by trap-doors, so that the pavement might be readily inspected and preserved.
When reassured, we all went on, not a word spoken by any one, and so in silence we entered the village. The women escaped through the trap-doors in the floors of their houses, and away down the side of the hill into the bush. We reached the chief's house, and there remained.
In the obscurity behind the partition were dim ladders leading up to trap-doors and, through a few holes in the roof and in the end wall, blinding rays of light glinted on piles of earthenware saucepans, jugs, cups and saucers, coloured crockery lamps, rough basins glazed green inside, heaped up in stacks and protected from one another by straw.
I held my tongue about you these eleven years past, I held it yesterday and saved your paltry life, and you'd repay me by stabbing me in the dark in a fine old-fashioned way too, with your trap-doors, and blown-out candle, and Italian tricks " He held the candle down near the white beard as though he would singe it. "Come, sit up against the wall there and let me look at you."
Mostly he was fleeing from formless terrors down an interminable passage in an airship a passage paved at first with ravenous trap-doors, and then with openwork canvas of the most careless description. "Gaw!" said Bert, turning over after his seventh fall through infinite space that night. He sat up in the darkness and nursed his knees.
The trap-doors were suddenly closed. Mr. Fentolin's face, as he looked up, became diabolic. "We are trapped!" he muttered; "caught like rats in a hole!" A gleam of day was in the sky as Hamel, with Mrs. Fentolin by his side, passed along the path which led from the Tower to St. David's Hall.
She was still holding him in her arms. Then she sighed and said, in her turn: "Suppose it were HE!" "Are you afraid of him?" "No, no, of course not," she said. For all that, on the next day and the following days, Christine was careful to avoid the trap-doors. Her agitation only increased as the hours passed.
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