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In the morning he was awake bright and early, and stretching himself with a long-drawn yawn, set out to find some way of procuring for himself a breakfast. First at one shop-door and then at another he stopped, popping in his shaggy head and asking the man inside, "Give me a job, Mister?" and being in reply promptly invited to "clear out!"
The clerk had, in the mean time, gone to the shop-door, and looking across at the opposite house, he drew a blue handkerchief, with a red border, from his pocket, and slowly raised it to his face. The man in the blouse, standing at the door of the low house across the street, nodded slightly, and stepped back out of sight.
All three going into the shop, and watching through the window, then saw Mr Baptist, pale and agitated, go through the following extraordinary performances. First, he was observed hiding at the top of the steps leading down into the Yard, and peeping up and down the street with his head cautiously thrust out close to the side of the shop-door.
And it is the fearful peculiarity of this condition that, at any hour of his daily life, at any opening of the shop-door, at any pull of the bell, at any entrance of a messenger, or any delivery of a letter, the secret may take air and fire, explode, and blow up Mr. Bucket only knows whom. Snagsby in?" or words to that innocent effect, Mr. Snagsby's heart knocks hard at his guilty breast.
This same shop-door had been a subject of no slight mortification to the present occupant of the august Pyncheon House, as well as to some of her predecessors.
As she rose, Christophe, his father, and the two women took torches and accompanied her to the shop-door. There Christophe ventured to touch the queen's wide sleeve and to make her a sign that he had something to say. Catherine stopped, made a gesture to the father and the two women to leave her, and said, turning to Christophe: "What is it?"
Krook is at home and that he has seen him through the shop-door, sitting in the back premises, sleeping "like one o'clock." "Then I'll pay," says Mr. Guppy, "and we'll go and see him. Small, what will it be?" Mr.
I'll let thee out by t' shop-door, and stand by it till thou's close at home, for it's ill for a young woman to be i' t' street so late. So she held the door open, and shaded the candle from the flickering outer air, while Hester went to her home with a heavy heart. Heavily and hopelessly did they all meet in the morning.
You should have looked down when you said that, Bess; I might have believed you then. "Wait?" I softly repeated. "Wait for what? For fortune to enter your little shop-door?" "No, for my husband to come back," was her unexpected answer, uttered grimly enough to have frightened that husband away again, had he been fortunate or unfortunate enough to hear her.
"And what will you do with the letter now?" he said. "Shall you not have still to go to the post-office to put it in?" "Oh no," I said, "there is a pillar-post quite near our house." "And you are sure you know your way?" he said as he opened the shop-door for us. "What is the name of the street where you live?" I hesitated.
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