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I have related the adventure which led to the wars of this period; how an ill-made window-frame was noticed at the Trianon, then building; how Louvois was blamed for it; his alarm lest his disgrace should follow; his determination to engage the King in a war which should turn him from his building fancies. He carried out his resolve: with what result I have already shown.
She clenched the window-frame, she clasped her heaving side. For as though in reply, approaching from behind the house as if already the producer had nearly made its circuit, there sounded close under the balustrade the walking of a horse. God grant no other ear had noted it! Now just beneath the window it ceased. Hilary Kincaid! She could not see, but as sure as sight she knew.
I'm sure you have your niece's permission to retire." But at that, Olga rose from the table. "Suppose we go into the garden, Mr. Wyndham," she said. Noel sprang up with a jingle of spurs. "By all means!" "Get a hat, Olga!" said Nick. She threw him a fleeting smile and departed. Noel propped himself against the window-frame and waited. He did not appear greatly disconcerted by the turn of events.
But it was a free gift. I don't take anything in exchange for that." An odd note sounded in his voice, as of some emotion suppressed. He leaned back against the window-frame, his hands behind his head. "That wasn't what I married her for. I tried to prove that to her. I actually thought " the old derisive grin leapt across his face "that I could win her trust like any ordinary man.
Then I raised my head, looked round the carriage, and the next moment sprang bolt upright in dismay. Where was my Fascinating Friend? Gone! vanished! There was not a trace of him. His valise, his great-coat, all had disappeared. Only in the little cigar-ash box on the window-frame I saw the flat cigarette which he had barely lighted how long before?
He would tear away with a plane at a window-frame or a coffin-lid, and tell the listener his wrongs, and how he had been scorned and insulted by people whom he had helped for years, and how they had reversed the teaching of the gospel in their bearing towards him heavier blows and longer shavings as if there were no such thing as true religion.
At the name her beautiful arm, in one swift motion, soared, swung, drove the bright steel deep into the window-frame and left it quivering. "Really," said a courteous staff-officer as he and Doctor Sevier alighted at the garden stair of Callender House and helped Anna and her maid from a public carriage, "only two or three of us will know you're" His smile was awkward. The pale doctor set his jaw.
"He has accepted, I believe, a consulship at Jamaica." "Jamaica!" said Fleda. "I have heard him speak of the West Indies I am not surprised I knew it was likely he would not stay here." How tightly her fingers that were free grasped the edge of the window-frame. Mr. Carleton saw it and softly removed them into his own keeping. "He may go before I can be here again.
He appeared satisfied with his scrutiny, for he looked up and made a sign with his hand, upon which the rope by which his descent had been effected was slackened from above, and he proceeded to disengage it from his waist; this accomplished, he applied his hands to the window-frame, which must have been ingeniously contrived for the purpose, for, with apparently no resistance, the whole frame, containing casement and all, slipped from its position in the wall, and was by him lowered into the room.
But Willy, to whose bold, adventurous spirit I felt my own but a feeble companion, had contrived with his pocket-knife to undo the four screws which attached the wooden framework of the screen to the window-frame.
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