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Something jerked suddenly within him, and a pulse awoke to a furious beating in his throat. Sylvia was emerging at that very moment from the doorway of the humble guest-chamber. The sun was in her eyes, blinding her, and she did not see him. Yet she paused a moment on the threshold. Burke dragged in his horses and sat watching her across the yard.
"I shall be back at Chelsea on Friday, if you like to come to me then; but the guest-chamber is remarkably small at present it holds all my lumber and little else." But as Cedric professed himself indifferent on the subject of his own comfort an assertion that drew a covert smile from his friend's lips the matter was soon settled.
He then confided to me that not so very long ago he dropped in one Monday morning into his guest-chamber just after his guest had gone and found a copy of "Inspired Millionaires," which his guest had obviously been reading over Sunday, lying on the little reading-table at the head of the bed.
As soon as we arrived yesterday at the guest-chamber of Critias, with whom we are staying, or rather on our way thither, we talked the matter over, and he told us an ancient tradition, which I wish, Critias, that you would repeat to Socrates, so that he may help us to judge whether it will satisfy his requirements or not. CRITIAS: I will, if Timaeus, who is our other partner, approves.
He read: "JULIO: The bearer of this is the wife of Pedro Valdez. You are to take her and her family in, and give them the best the house contains; the best, do you hear? put them in the marble guest-chamber, and place the house at their disposal. Send for Doctor Blanco to attend them; let Teresa wait upon them, and let her furnish them with clothes from my wardrobe.
"We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow." I don't apply the name to you; but you'll be none the worse for a good night's sleep. Let us be off. Harvey slept much better than of late. There was an air of comfort in this guest-chamber which lulled the mind.
I have never seen thy face 'That even the monkeys who steal our loquats count for again. Hee! hee! 'But as he who sleeps there said, he nodded at the shut door of the guest-chamber across the forecourt 'thou hast a heart of gold... And he is in the spirit my very "grandson" to me. 'Good! I am the Holy One's cow. This was pure Hinduism, but the lama never heeded. 'I am old.
Clemence in her gentle dumb show shared the welcome, and directed as Leonard was carried up an outside stone stair to a guest-chamber, and deposited in a stately bed with fresh, cool, lace-bordered, lavender-scented sheets, and Grisell put between his lips a spoonful of the cordial with which Lambert had supplied her. More distinctly than before he murmured, "Thanks, sweet Eleanor."
Well, Doctor Johnson believed in ghosts," laughed Traverse. "It remained for me to retreat as fast as possible to my room to avoid the Le Noirs, who were hurrying with headlong speed to the guest-chamber. They knew of course, that I was the ghost, although they affected to treat their visitor's story as a dream.
On the day of Merrit's expected arrival, when the last flower had been put in the vases, and the last speck of dust flecked from the matting, Yuki San's keen eyes detected a torn place in the paper door which separated the guest-chamber from the narrow hall. A puzzled little frown drew her black brows together, but it soon fled before her smile. "Ah!" she cried, "idea come quickly!
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