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Updated: May 14, 2025
I feel the helmet on my head; I wave the standard over it; brave men smile upon me; beautiful maidens pull them gently back by the scarf, and will not let them break my slumber, nor undraw the curtain. Corneliolina! Cornelia. Well, my dear brother! Why do you stop so suddenly in the midst of them? They are the pleasantest and best company, and they make you look quite happy and joyous. Tasso.
Exhausted by the effort, he let his right arm fall for a moment, while with his left he tried to undraw the bolts behind him. During this second, he received a ball in his thigh, and two swords touched his side. But he had unfastened the bolt, and turned the key. Sublime with rage, he rushed on Monsoreau, and wounded him in the breast. "Ah!" cried Bussy, "I begin to think I shall escape."
She readily promised this; and he informed her that, when through this door, she must cross two other apartments, the bolts to the entrances of which she must undraw; and then, at the extremity of a long passage, a door, fastened by a latch, would admit her to Sir William Wallace. With these words, the soldier removed the massy bars, and Helen entered. The Tower of London.
'It is you, Bill! said the girl, with an expression of pleasure at his return. 'It is, was the reply. 'Get up. There was a candle burning, but the man hastily drew it from the candlestick, and hurled it under the grate. Seeing the faint light of early day without, the girl rose to undraw the curtain. 'Let it be, said Sikes, thrusting his hand before her.
Emily presently heard his steps descending the stairs within, and then the heavy chain fall, and the bolts undraw of a small postern door, which he opened to admit the party. He held the lamp low, to shew the step of the gate, and she found herself once more beneath the gloomy arch, and heard the door close, that seemed to shut her from the world for ever.
He pushed the panel farther back, pressed the lads' hands as they went out, and then closed the entrance behind them. There was but a single bolt to undraw; then they opened the door and stepped into the street, Edgar waiting for half a minute to let Albert get well away before he went out.
'Undraw the curtains, my dear girl, said Eugene, after a while, 'and let us see our wedding-day. The sun was rising, and his first rays struck into the room, as she came back, and put her lips to his. 'I bless the day! said Eugene. 'I bless the day! said Lizzie. 'You have made a poor marriage of it, my sweet wife, said Eugene.
Arnott began better to understand Flora's continued depression, but she thought her self-reproach exaggerated, and said something at once soothing and calculated to encourage her to undraw the curtain of reserve. "You do not know," continued Flora, "how greedy I was of credit and affection.
‘It is of no use, my good woman,’ said the surgeon, soothingly, as he withdrew his hand from the man’s breast. ‘Stay—undraw that curtain!’ ‘Why?’ said the woman, starting up. ‘Undraw that curtain!’ repeated the surgeon in an agitated tone. ‘I darkened the room on purpose,’ said the woman, throwing herself before him as he rose to undraw it.—‘Oh! sir, have pity on me!
Susan went in; but did not undraw the curtain as she stood beside the bed. "Are you there, love? Undraw the curtain, that I may see you, and tell me; I thought I heard some strange voice just now talking to my child. Something's amiss, Susan," said her mother, raising herself as well as she was able in the bed, to examine her daughter's countenance.
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