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He had reached the corner of his own street, and was already fumbling in his pocket for the door-key, when a dark figure emerged from a projecting entrance which lay in deep shadow, and, crossing the road, glided up to him unperceived. 'Fagin! whispered a voice close to his ear. 'Ah! said the Jew, turning quickly round, 'is that 'Yes! interrupted the stranger.
In the winter time especially the labouring poor go to bed very soon, to save the expense of candles. By the bye, the cottagers have a curious habit, which deserves to be recorded even for its singularity. When the good woman of the cottage goes out for half-an-hour to fetch a pail of water, or to gossip with a neighbour, she always leaves the door-key in the keyhole outside.
"Here comes a fellow with mustachios and a cigar. Every fellow who smokes and wears mustachios is a low fellow. Oh! it's Mr. Strong. I hope you are well, Mr. Strong?" and the old gentleman, making a dignified bow to the Chevalier, was about to pass into his house; directing towards the lock of the door, with trembling hand, the polished door-key.
A band of music played, and we students danced with one another. I was one of the last to depart, long after midnight, and on looking for my overcoat I could not find it. One of the guests had mistaken it for his, and the young gentleman's servant had carried his own home. This was unfortunate, for mine contained my door-key.
'Business in Church Street, Smith Square, by Mill Bank, repeated Miss Peecher to herself. 'Having said which, pursued Bradley, laying his door-key on the table, 'I must be already going. There is nothing I can do for you, Miss Peecher? 'Thank you, Mr Headstone. In which direction? 'In the direction of Westminster. 'Mill Bank, Miss Peecher repeated in her own thoughts once again.
'Brother! oh, stow that bosh! she said, turning languidly away. There could not be a doubt of it, Philippa was herself again! I rose pensively, and wandered out towards the stables. Covered with white snow over a white macintosh, I met by the coach-house door William, the Sphynx. The White Groom! Twiddling a small object, a door-key of peculiar make, in his hand, he grinned stolidly at me.
Fox of Fox Hall, at which he played at being married to a young lady who was present, by one of the guests dressed up in a white cloak, with a door-key for a ring. This foolish escapade would not deserve the faintest notice, if it had not been seriously treated as an actual marriage by a writer in the Quarterly Review.
The answer was only too obvious. She must have gone forth to meet him, and to wring from him, by what means she might, that quarter's salary which the dastard had left unpaid. Then my thoughts flew to the door-key, the cause of that fierce family hatred which burned between Philippa and her betrayer.
'Give her a door-key to carry in her t'other one, Fagin, said Sikes; 'it looks real and genivine like. 'Yes, yes, my dear, so it does, said the Jew, hanging a large street-door key on the forefinger of the young lady's right hand. 'There; very good! Very good indeed, my dear! said the Jew, rubbing his hands. 'Oh, my brother!
As the major had rung for the porter when he left, the mistress was known to be alone, and her maid went up to ask for orders. Timéa thought she was the one who had shown the major out, and told her to go to bed she would undress herself; so the maid went back to the others. "If only we had a drop of punch now," said the porter, thrusting the door-key into his pocket.
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