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Their expression, as they held out their hands to the doctor, showed that his coming brought great relief. And there was something else in the room, something that drew the eyes of all three of the men immediately after their silent greeting. This was a great pool of blood which lay as a hideous stain on the otherwise clean yellow-painted floor.

Then, close to the floor, and in a place where they were likely to escape detection, she marked clearly and distinctly eight deep, short scratches in an even line on the yellow-painted woodwork. She ran her fingers over them until she could feel each scratch distinctly. Eight! She counted them thrice to make sure, then jumped back into bed, and in a few minutes was as fast asleep as her neighbors.

Promises of the Sultan Yellow-painted Women Presents Anecdotes Prepare to visit En-Noor Our Reception Dialogue Seeming Liberality of the Sultan Greediness of his People No Provisions to be got Fat Women Nephew of the Sultan Tanelkum Beggars Weather A Divorced Lady Aheer Money Our Camels again stolen Account of the Tanelkums Huckster Women Aheer Landscape Various Causes of Annoyance No News of the Camels Anecdote of my Servants Storms Revolution in the Desert Name of the Country Dr.

The person sitting on the yellow-painted bedroom chair was a stranger who wore, unaccountably, a brown dress and a gold watch-chain with a gold tassel that she remembered. She had an odd feeling that this person had no right to wear her mother's dress and her chain. The flash of queerness was accompanied by a sense of irreparable disaster.

He drives Rukmini from him, and implores the yellow-painted god for forgiveness; and, as he is the preserver, it is granted. Satyavama is brought back to life. She presents her son to her husband, who holds out his arms to embrace him; and the curtain drops in a blaze of Bengal lights, and the "Wah! Wahs!" of the Hindu audience.

The judge arrived in better shape, the gig being his own and fairly comfortable, the same he rode to circuit, a yellow-painted vehicle washed only when it rained, and the horse the property of the village livery man, who had a yearly contract with his Honor for its use.

Seating myself by Gubin on some trampled straw in the hut ordinarily used by the watchman of the Birkins' extensive orchard, I found that, owing to the orchard being set on a hillside, I could see over the tops of the apple and pear and fig trees, where their tops hung bespangled with dew as with quicksilver, and view the whole town and its multicoloured churches, yellow, newly-painted prison, and yellow-painted bank.

In this manner he hoped to draw some little spark of individuality from Mary Hope, who sat behind her yellow-painted table and stared at him over her folded arms. But Mary Hope, he observed, had been crying, and compunction seized him suddenly. "Well, what is it?" she asked him curtly, rubbing a palm down over one cheek, with the motion obliterating a small rivulet of tears.

Lowestoft was a frequent attraction for a youthful rambleperhaps almost too far, unless one could manage to get a lift in a little yellow-painted black-bodied vehicle called a whisky, which was grandfather’s property, and into the shafts of which could be put any spare quadruped, whether donkey, or mule, or pony, it mattered little, and which afforded a considerable relief when a trip as far as Lowestoft was determined on.

Anthony became one of the wealthiest men in Washington County. Susan can still recall the stately coldness of the great house how large the bare rooms, with their yellow-painted floors, seemed, in contrast with her own diminutiveness, and the outlook of the schoolroom where for so many years, with her brothers and sisters, she pursued her studies under private tutors. Mr.