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Are you sure it wasn't one of the three men I conducted to the hut that you saw at the window?" he added, turning to the Filipino. "Oh, yes; I am quite sure it was a fourth man. He mounted to the window-ledge on a ladder, pushed the screen aside and vaulted over the sill." "And how was he received?" asked Ned. "He was welcomed, and given a chair at the table.
The whitewash was very dirty; the little eight-day clock on the mantelpiece had run down; the begonias in pots on the window-ledge were at death's door for water. Between two of them a lean cat stretched in the sun and licked its paws; beside the fire lay Ship with his nose on the ground; and Will sat close by, a fortnight's beard upon his chin. He looked listlessly up as Mr.
Helen entered the other room as Miriam dropped from the window-ledge to the floor. "Don't make a noise. We mustn't wake her. Oh, oh, you look you look like rags!" Miriam sat limply; she shook with cold and sobs and laughter. Water dripped from every part of her, and when Helen helped her up, all the streams became one river. Helen let go of the cold hands and sank to the bed.
To the left, the undulations of the Roman hills expire into an emptiness infinitely sad. Afar, the violet scheme of the Alban mountains, with veiled and dream-like distances, shape indefinitely against the pearl light, limpid and serene, of the sky. Augustin and Monnica, resting on the window-ledge, looked forth.
It's yours." "Mine? My cent?" repeated the old man, staring at it. "What d'ye mean? I hain't give ye no cent." "I found it in the road. You dropped it," said Joel, feeling tired to death. And dropping it hastily on the window-ledge he hurried off, swinging his tin pail violently. "What's the matter?" asked Mrs.
I stammered at a false start or two; then "I have just run down from " "Av ye plaze, ye'll not smoke here, ye understand." I laid my cigar on the window-ledge; chased my flighty thoughts a moment, then said in a placating manner: "I I have come to see Mr. Daly." "Oh, ye have, have ye?" "Yes" "Well, ye'll not see him." "But he asked me to come." "Oh, he did, did he?"
BUTLER. But was it where he fell two story high From a window-ledge, on which he had fallen asleep And rose up free from injury? GORDON. He became Doubtless more self-enwrapped and melancholy; He made himself a Catholic. Marvellously His marvellous preservation had transformed him.
She rose with great care to her feet, and stood a moment shaking and clinging to the window-ledge, while she bethought her of what servants she could wake first, and how she could reach her father's room. Her poor heart beat in her side, and her breath came quickly.
She could not see him just yet; she could not go indoors. She slipped through one of the overgrown garden-alleys and climbed a steep path to the hills. It was dark when she opened their sitting-room door. Gannett was sitting on the window-ledge smoking a cigarette. Cigarettes were now his chief resource: he had not written a line during the two months they had spent at the Hotel Bellosguardo.
One day, it was nearly a week after Truedale's call, Brace came upon his sister in the workshop over the extension. She was sitting on the window-ledge looking out into the old garden where a magnolia tree was in full bloom. "Heigho, boy!" she said, welcoming him with her eyes. "I've just discovered that spring is here. I've always been ready for it before. This year it has taken me by surprise."
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