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Many men in silk hats crowded to and fro on the platform, and a number of them shook the handle of the locked door. There was an effect of curses in the sound of their remarks which came through the closed window. Mr. Thorpe could not quite restrain the impulse to grin at them. "Ah, that's where you mistake," said Plowden, contemplating the mouthful of smoke he slowly blew forth.
A rather large parlour set with a table for five; a magnificent view from the window of a huge white-bricked wall and scores of chimney pots and electric wires, and a moving grey sky above! Charlie, too, was unsuccessfully pretending not to be nervous. "Hullo, kid!" he greeted his sister. "Hullo yourself," responded Sissie. They shook hands. However, Charlie kissed his mother.
It was a pretty long, but yet a very light ladder; and Rollo and Nathan succeeded, after some difficulty, in getting it down, and in running the end out of the window. When the lower end reached the ground, the upper end was two or three feet above the bottom of the window; so that Rollo could easily get upon it to descend.
I ran into the other room, but it was equally deserted. Then I rushed up the stairs, but only to find two other rooms empty and deserted at the top. There was no one at all in the whole house. The furniture and pictures were of the most common and vulgar description save in the one chamber at the window of which I had seen the strange face.
And now in the dark his temperature was mounting fast. He lay awake, featuring Fleur as they called it recalling her words, especially that "Au revoir!" so soft and sprightly. He was still so wide-awake at dawn that he got up, slipped on tennis shoes, trousers, and a sweater, and in silence crept down-stairs and out through the study window. It was just light; there was a smell of grass.
"You understand the meaning of the word and its consequences among men of honour?" the artist said, putting his hand on his hip, and staring at Pen. "The consequences are, that I will fling you out of window, you impudent scoundrel," bawled out Mr.
"An' now," said M'Ginnis, leaning against a corner of the desk, "sit down here, nice an' close, an' write that letter there's pen an' ink an' paper an' quick about it or by " M'Ginnis sprang up and turned as the glass of the window splintered to fragments, and, almost with the crash, Ravenslee leapt a fierce twist, a vicious wrench, and the deadly weapon had changed hands.
"This time the words did really die on my lips. I could only bow my head, and answer 'Yes' mutely in that way. Midwinter went on. "'Allan laughed, and went to the window to look out at the Bay, and I went with him. After a while Allan remarked, jocosely, that the mere sound of the liquids you were pouring out made him thirsty. When he said this, I turned round from the window.
And though she had seen, as she came in through the square, that there were no lights in any window, and though the sitting-room door was ajar, and showed a cold hearth and furniture looking huddled and low-spirited as furniture does when dusk comes and there is no company, she stood in the hall and called, "Mother! Mother!"
Near the window was a small counter, behind which Madame L. Hernandez immediately installed herself, and from this vantage-point she proceeded to inspect us with cool deliberation, fanning herself the while with a huge palm-leaf. "You wish to buy a hat?" she said, tentatively. "That one," answered Indiman, stubbornly " that hat on the model's head." "Bah!
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