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And suddenly, as if remembering something, or feeling sleepy, she grew serious. The inspector rose and left the room, and Nekhludoff remained with her. The jailer who had brought Maslova in sat on a windowsill at some distance from them. The decisive moment had come for Nekhludoff.
Steve and Joe charitably pretended not to have noticed the lamentable exhibition of feeling, and a silence followed, during which the voices of the singers once more became audible. "Dexter! Mother of our Youth! Dexter! Guardian of the Truth!" "Cut it out!" Perry leaned over the windowsill and bawled the command down into the darkness. A defiant jeer answered him.
I'll go first, then;" and in a moment Faith was swinging from the windowsill, had dropped to the ground, and was speeding down the path to the mill, while Esther, frightened and helpless, leaned out screaming at the top of her voice. Mrs. Carew was just leaving the mill when she saw Faith racing toward her. "A bear! A bear in our kitchen," she called. "Hugh!" called Mrs. Carew, and Mr.
Gathering all that wonderful reserve strength that comes to every one in time of greatest need, he swung his burden far out from the window then dropped it. Allen paused for a moment, steadying hand on the windowsill, then gathered himself for the last great effort. The bed was invisible now, the room an inferno he had to fight every step of the way back to the bed.
So it was no great marvel to me, when one day, not long after my first appearance at the windowsill, I saw the poor woman come into the room with a very faltering step, and a whiter, sicklier look on her wan face than was usual to it. She threw herself wearily down upon her bed in the corner, and panted for breath.
She springs to her feet. She is alone in the room with the marble men; and they are quiet; even the Gladiator bites back his last groan once more. "The Eternal City," shouts Mae; "I know what it means at last. Oh! Rome, Rome, I love you!" and she rests her hand on the windowsill, and looks out on Rome. "Why, it is like a resurrection morn. Ruins?
Johnny studied the situation carefully, and the more he studied, the more baffled he became. If a boat had been tied to the windowsill there would have been marks on the casing. There were no such marks; yet, the fugitives had gone that way. He thought of the shots fired from the river the previous night and tried to connect the two. He could not make it out. "Dey's gone!" said Jerry the Rat.
Alan began it; they didn't want to, I could see; but he was criticising what some of those Bigwigs had said the 'Varsity makes boys awfully conceited. It was such a lovely night; we were all in the big, long window. A little bat kept flying past; and behind the copper-beech the moon was shining on the lake. Derek sat in the windowsill, and when he moved he touched me.
'Now you know; and that's all I have got to say. With which words she hurried into the house, as if to shake off the responsibility of my appearance; and left me standing at the garden-gate, looking disconsolately over the top of it towards the parlour window, where a muslin curtain partly undrawn in the middle, a large round green screen or fan fastened on to the windowsill, a small table, and a great chair, suggested to me that my aunt might be at that moment seated in awful state.
For the second time from this place I bid you good-night in the distance. May angels watch over you a grenadier with a bear-skin cap does that for me here; I see his bayonet two arm-lengths away from me, projecting six inches above the windowsill, and reflecting my light. He is standing on the terrace over the Danube, and is, perhaps, thinking of his Nan, too. Tomsjönäs, August 16, '57.
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