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Updated: August 19, 2024
The seven brethren stood together on a marble terrace of the royal palace, that was dotted about on the baluster of it with white statues: they were helmetted, and armed to the teeth, only over their armour great black cloaks were thrown.
Startled for the first time from her careless composure by an interruption of which it was impossible for her at that time to measure either the motive or the meaning, she ceased to play with her fingers on the baluster rail and let her eyes rest for a moment on the man who had thus spoken, as if she hesitated between her desire to annihilate him for his impertinence and a fear of the cold hate she saw actuating his every word and look.
And, once more, with every sense strained and every nerve on edge, he strove to discern the mysterious thing that was coming toward him. He suddenly realized it when only a few yards away. He himself, hidden in a still darker recess, could not be seen. And what he saw in the very vaguest manner was approaching stair by stair, with infinite precautions, holding on to each separate baluster.
A baluster marked the entrance to the staircase, near the fissure. They started on their way down. From time to time, a little window pierced the wall of the cliff; and, each time, they caught sight of the Needle, whose mass seemed to them to grow more and more colossal. A little before reaching high-water level, the windows ceased and all was dark. Isidore counted the steps aloud.
She shielded the feeble flicker with her Hand; her white-hooded head gleamed as with an aureola as the divergent rays rested on the opaque mist; and now and again she clutched the baluster and walked with tremulous care, for the flooring was rotten here and there, and ready to crumble away.
Sykes' heart leaping into her throat, which sent Esther reeling against the stair baluster, which brought the doctor, white-faced from the veranda it was the kind of cry which carries in its note the psychic essence of terror and disaster. Mrs. Sykes for all her iron nerve felt suddenly faint. Jane began to cry. The doctor and Esther had raced up the stairs. But there was no repetition of the cry.
It's want of victuals more than anything else. You haven't had any dinner, I'll be bound!" "No; I could not eat." "Nor supper?" "No: I never thought of it." Mr. Parmalee got up, and was out of the room and hanging over the baluster in a twinkling. "Here you, Jane Anne!" Jane Anne appeared. "Fetch up supper and look sharp supper for two.
"Harry and Tom once made a general execution," said Flora; "there was a doll hanging to every baluster the number made up with rag." George Rivers burst out laughing his first sign of life; and Meta looked as if she had heard of so many murders. "I can't help feeling for a doll!" she said. "They used to be like sisters to me.
The very thoughtful little face seemed to be intent on something out of the house, and when she reached the bottom, she still stood with her hand on the great baluster that rested on the marble there, and looked wistfully out of the open door.
For a moment the barrister thought, in his agitation, that he must have mistaken the floor, but, casting his eye over the baluster he saw that he had not passed the entresol. Madame de Godollo must, therefore, be in the act of moving away. He then resigned himself to make known his presence at the great lady's door as he would have done at that of a grisette.
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