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Shortly afterwards the trill of the door-bell pealed through the flat, followed by a sound of footsteps in the hall, and, a minute later, Maryon Rooke came into the room. A brief stir succeeded his entrance, as Penelope and one or two other non-players exchanged greetings with him. Then he crossed over to where Nan was playing.
He was turning away in apathy from it from the bones with the marrow oozing out of the ends, from the bursting baked potatoes, from the beautiful crusts of brown bread, when he heard the door-bell ring. At the sound his face set as though it were mortar.
"That's why, then," exclaimed Maxence, "that's why my father treated me so rudely: that's why he so obstinately persisted in closing the offices of the Mutual Credit against me." He was interrupted by a violent ringing of the door-bell. He looked at the clock: ten o'clock was about to strike. "Who can call so late?" said Mme. Favoral.
She refused him and cut off his plea, hoping that he would come, anyway, and waiting tremulously till the door-bell rang with a forgotten thrill of a caller, a lover calling. Her maid, who brought her Jim's name, begged with her eyes that he should not be turned away again. Charity nodded and prinked a little and went down-stairs into Jim's arms.
The demands of ordinary life were unknown to Spero. He had put his arm in the burning flame with the courage of a Mucius Scævola, and quailed before the prick of a needle. Suddenly the door-bell rang, and breathing more freely the vicomte left the little room. When he returned to his study he found Coucou awaiting him.
But I was myself on the point of fainting from emotional excitement and fatigue together, when she came to herself again. "Ah! it is you." she said: "so much the better!" Such was our condition when we rang our friend's door-bell. Same day. It was eight o'clock. Madame de Gabry, as might be supposed, was very much surprised by our unexpected appearance.
Somerville and of Sir George Airy, and the man said if they could be had in London he would get them; and then he asked, 'Are they English? and I informed him that Sir George Airy was the astronomer royal! "'The Glasgow College for Girls. Seeing a sign of this sort, I rang the door-bell of the house to which it was attached, entered, and was told the lady was at home.
'Your voiceless lips, O flowers' are living preachers, Each cup a pulpit, and each leaf a book, Supplying to my fancy numerous teachers From lowliest nook'" At this moment the door-bell rang, and soon after the servant brought in a telegraphic dispatch, addressed to Mr. Hammond.
At that moment the door-bell was heard to ring, and the women gave a scream apiece, as if the bailiffs were actually coming to take possession. Rosey went off in quite a series of screams, peevishly repressed by her husband, and always encouraged by mamma, who called her son-in-law an unfeeling wretch. It must be confessed that Mrs.
"Bring me a New Haven time-table, please," he began, "and " The door-bell abrupted his words, clamoring shrilly. "What the deuce?" he demanded. "Who can that be? Answer it, will you, O'Hagan?" He put down the pen, swallowed his coffee, and lit a cigarette, listening to the murmurs at the hall door.
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