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To him, thenceforth, the house was haunted, and all its floating traces of herself visible or invisible, from the ribbon that he saw entangled in the window-blind to every intangible and fancied atom she had imparted to the atmosphere, came at last to organize themselves into one phantom shape for him and looked out, a wraith of Emilia, through those relentless blinds.
"Well, really, Miss Owen," he said, simply, "now you speak of it, you are something like what my little Marian may have grown to be by this time." "How delicious!" exclaimed Miss Owen. "Cobbler" Horn was gazing intently at his young secretary. What vague surmisings, like shadows on a window-blind were flitting through his brain? What dim rays of hope were struggling to penetrate the gloom?
While she was appealing to him, pleading with him, the man she was expecting whom she was even ready to vilify in order to throw dust in the eyes of the one who was a menace to him was coming in response, probably, to a signal given by the clear, lamp-lit window-blind. He faced her where she stood, his eyes hard and cold, his mouth set stern.
In our little town, which is a sample of many, life is as interesting, as pathetic, as joyous as ever it was; no group of weavers was better to look at or think about than the rivulet of winsome girls that overruns our streets every time the sluice is raised, the comedy of summer evenings and winter firesides is played with the old zest and every window-blind is the curtain of a romance.
Very carefully she took out the roll of blue silk, and laying the letter between its shining folds, she sat down and cried over them. "You didn't wear out, after all," she sobbed, running her fingers gently over the blue folds, "no, you didn't." She was roused by the clicking of the front gate, and peeped fearfully under the window-blind. Susan was coming!
'She's pretty well, replied Master Bardell, 'so am I. 'Well, that's a mercy, said Sam; 'tell her I want to speak to her, will you, my hinfant fernomenon? Master Bardell, thus adjured, placed the refractory flat candle on the bottom stair, and vanished into the front parlour with his message. The two caps, reflected on the window-blind, were the respective head-dresses of a couple of Mrs.
The quiet houses, surrounded by their demure gardens, gave no indication that he was being watched from behind many a window-blind.
The longer he gazed upon that illuminated window-blind, the more blank became the picture of the man who sat behind it, endlessly turning over sheets of process, pausing to sip a glass of port, or rising and passing heavily about his book-lined walls to verify some reference.
It was Leonora's own little study that we were in and we were waiting for the tea to be brought. I, as I said, was sitting in the deep chair, Leonora was standing in the window twirling the wooden acorn at the end of the window-blind cord desultorily round and round.
For the better securing of privacy in sleeping-rooms, we have seen two doors employed, one of which is made with slats, like a window-blind, so that air is freely transmitted without exposing the interior. When we speak of fresh air, we insist on the full rigor of the term.
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