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Updated: June 9, 2025
As the season is drawing to a close: as many hundreds of kind souls, snobbish or otherwise, have quitted London; as many hospitable carpets are taken up; and window-blinds are pitilessly papered with the MORNING HERALD; and mansions once inhabited by cheerful owners are now consigned to the care of the housekeeper's dreary LOCUM TENENS some mouldy old woman, who, in reply to the hopeless clanging of the bell, peers at you for a moment from the area, and then slowly unbolting the great hall-door, informs you my lady has left town, or that 'the family's in the country, or 'gone up the Rind, or what not; as the season and parties are over; why not consider Party-giving Snobs for a while, and review the conduct of some of those individuals who have quitted the town for six months?
Valorbe, who came at once, and, after hearing their story, inquired of the count: "Are you sure that no one passed through your chamber during the night?" "Absolutely sure, as I am a very light sleeper. Besides, the chamber door was bolted, and I remember unbolting it this morning when my wife rang for her maid." "And there is no other entrance to the cabinet?" "None." "No windows?"
In high feather Lanyard made his way to a door at the rear of the house which gave upon the garden in his new social status of Governmental protege disdaining any such a commonplace avenue as that conservatory window whose fastenings he had forced on entering. And boldly unbolting the door, he ran out into the night, to rejoin his beloved, like a man waking to new life.
Mac Fane had his pistols and cutlass, yet seemed to suppose a possibility even of my conquering them. The keeper was much more confident 'He knew how to bring me down; he had no fear of that. Mac Fane remembered his defeat, and the keeper his cheaply bought victory. They agreed it could not be done silently, unless they could catch me asleep, and the unbolting of the doors would awaken me.
The noise he made in unchaining and unbolting the door awakened me, and it warmed my heart to see Nance standing timidly just inside the hall, her hand in her father's, till she spied me, when she broke away and ran up to me. "You knew I'd come, sir, didn't you?" she said, appealing to me more with her pretty anxious face than by her words. "Of course, ghostie!" I replied promptly.
She has not been lighting it since Stella's illness I have got a second key for the padlock, so we shall not have to wait, rattling at the gate." "You think I may come in?" he asked eagerly. "We shall consult Mrs. Wade." Susan received them with a great unbolting and unlocking of the door. She apologized for her slowness. "It isn't that lonesome now Mrs. Wade's come," she said.
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