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And amidst all his activities, Lasse's face rose up before him and made him feel lonely in the midst of the bustle. Wherever could Father Lasse be? Would he ever hear of him again? Every day he had expected, in reliance on Karna's word, to see him blundering in at the door, and when anybody fumbled at the door-knocker he felt quite certain it was Lasse.
He might come: if he needed money badly enough he would come, and in spite of the already considerable depletion of their capital, Caroline and Sophia lived in hope of hearing his impatient assault of the door-knocker, the brass head of a lion holding a heavy ring in his mouth.
Only her school clothes and her girlish door-knocker plait tied up with broad black ribbon reminded him that she was not yet seventeen. Ronny was tired. She did not want to talk. When he had tucked her up with railway rugs in her corner of the carriage she sat still with her hands in her muff. "I shall not disturb your thoughts, Michael," she said. She knew what he had been thinking.
Its door and half its front were painted a beautiful, a remarkable pea-green, while its door knob and door-knocker were of polished brass. Mrs. Downey's boarding-house knew nothing of concealment or disguise. Every evening, at the hour of seven, through its ground-floor window it offered to the world a scene of stupefying brilliance.
As was said, it was a cheerful, pleasant home, impressing you when you entered it with the feeling of spotless and all-pervading cleanliness a cleanliness that greeted you in the shining brass door-knocker; that entertained you in the sitting room with its stiff, leather-covered furniture, the brass-headed tacks whereof sparkled like so many stars a cleanliness that bade you farewell in the spotless stretch of sand-sprinkled hallway, the wooden floor of which was worn into knobs around the nail heads by the countless scourings and scrubbings to which it had been subjected and which left behind them an all-pervading faint, fragrant odor of soap and warm water.
You know I don't." She rose with the sleeping child in her arms and carried it to its cot. He followed her and turned back the blanket for her as she laid Baby down. But it was Winny and not Baby that he looked at. And he thought, "Little Winky's grown up." To be sure, her hair was done differently. He missed the door-knocker plat. But that was not what he meant.
"How you two smarts can tell a domino from a door-knocker after cracking a dozen magnums gets me guessing." He took up the scented bag and gravely handed it to the old woman. "You have mislaid your bag, madam," he said. "But, fortunately, I noticed it as I came in." He turned the glance of his fierce eyes upon the man who had met him on the landing, and who had followed him into the room.
She saw the little turret closet in which the poor queen was at supper with her ladies when the minstrel was surprised and massacred in her presence. She went into the great picture gallery, where hung the portraits of the Scottish kings each mother's royal son painted with a large curled proboscis "a nose like a door-knocker," as someone described it.
He arose from the blanket and accepted my overtures with an expression which may have been intended for a smile, or a threat of the most appalling character. I have seen such legs as his on old-fashioned silver teapots; and the crook in his tail would have made it useful as a door-knocker. "I don't think I ever saw him take so to a stranger," exclaimed his mistress, suddenly beaming.
When she had finished struggling with her long thick hair and put the hairpins into the solid coil on the top of her head and tied the stout doubled door-knocker plait at her neck, she put on the rose-madder blouse. The mirror was lower and twice as large as the one in the garret, larger than the one she had shared with Harriett. "How jolly I look," she thought, "jolly and big somehow.
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