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The door-keeper considered for a few minutes, and then acceded to the request of the future presbyter of Raithu, while at the same time he begged him not to linger too late. As he went by the senator's house he smelt the savor of roast meat; he was a poor man and thought to himself, "They fast in there just when it pleases them, but as for us, we fast when it pleases us least."
"Well," said Ike, who was performing the responsible duty of door-keeper, "you can't see him, not now. What's required?" "I guess it's pretty important," the stranger said. "It's a telegram. In fact, it's bad news, so Mr. McIntyre of Big River said." "Bad news!" exclaimed Ike. "Mighty bad time to bring bad news. Why couldn't you wait?" "Some things can't wait," said the man briefly.
With the comforting exclamation, "If your strength does not suffice, another way will be found," he took his leave, gave Barine's maid and the wounded man's body-slave the necessary directions, commanded the door-keeper to admit no one save the physician, and stepped into the open air. A little band of Ephebi were pacing to and fro before the house.
The storm had blown out the lanterns at the masts the signal lights for which his people looked and he found neither servants nor torch-bearers on the bank, so he struggled through the scorching wind as far as the gate of his house. His big dog had always been wont to announce his return home to the door-keeper with joyful barking; but to-night the boatmen long knocked in vain at the heavy doer.
Janasruti may be very pious, but as he does not know Brahman what quality of his could produce splendour capable of burning me like the splendour of Raikva? The former flamingo thereupon asks who that Raikva is, and its companion replies, 'He in whose work and knowledge there are comprised all the works done by good men and all the knowledge belonging to intelligent creatures, that is Raikva. Janasruti, having heard this speech of the flamingo which implied a reproach to himself as being destitute of the knowledge of Brahman, and a glorification of Raikva as possessing that knowledge at once sends his door-keeper to look for Raikva; and when the door-keeper finds him and brings word, the king himself repairs to him with six hundred cows, a golden necklace, and a carriage yoked with mules, and asks him to teach him the deity on which he meditates, i.e. the highest deity.
What would his father say? and Nanette, would she think where he was, and rouse the old door-keeper? High up through the tower-window he caught sight of a star; and the moon poured her silver radiance full on the face of the organ. Creeping up the stairs, he once more opened the instrument.
Come on!" was the reply, and in one moment the speaker's Khyber knife flashed from his loose sleeve into the throat of the nearest foe. As he withdrew it, the door-keeper slashed at his abdomen, missed by a hair's-breadth, raised his arm to save his neck from a slash, and was stabbed to the heart, the knife held dagger-wise.
Our gold-laced door-keeper recognized it and I heard him directing one of the lift boys to run after Il Conde with it. Perhaps he was the only Count staying in the hotel, or perhaps he had the distinction of being the Count par excellence, conferred upon him because of his tried fidelity to the house. Judging by the quiet urbanity of his consent he did not think so either.
Wingfold, I never allow any such foolish jests in my hearing. It was a DOOR-keeper the Psalmist said and to the house of God, not a nobleman's park." "A verger, I suppose," thought Wingfold. "Seriously, Mrs. Ramshorn, that poor little atom of a creature is the wisest man I know," he said. "Likely enough, in YOUR judgment, Mr. Wingfold," said the dean's widow, and drew herself up.
He had accustomed himself to the thought of going to Siberia, and living among the exiles and convicts, and it was difficult for him to imagine how he should order his life and that of Maslova if she were freed. The door-keeper at the hospital, recognizing Nekhludoff, immediately informed him that Maslova was no longer there. "Where is she, then?" "Why, again in the prison."
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