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Updated: June 20, 2025
When the gates of the church are open, he elbows in among the first, and flings a few scornful piastres to the Turkish door-keeper; and gazes round easily at the place, in which people of every other nation in the world are in tears, or in rapture, or wonder.
I told him that there was not the least doubt of it, if he would tell me one of his funny stories. He then took my arm, and led me a turn in the vestibule, talking about some indifferent matter, but all the time directing my looks to his left hand, toward which he was gesticulating with his right; and thus we approached the door-keeper, who began asking me, "Foreign ambassador?
People were buying tickets and making their way hurriedly to the platform; but, among all those who came in and went out, Ralph could not discover the familiar face and figure of Sharpman, nor, indeed, could he see any one whom he knew. After the passengers had all gone out, the door-keeper called Ralph to him. "Find your man?" he asked. "Do you mean Mr. Sharpman?" "Yes." "No, he didn't come in.
What a baby you are!" said the disgusting Messaline; "are you such a novice?" "No, madam; but...." "But what?" "I have...." "Oh, the villain!" she exclaimed, loosing her hold; "what was I going to expose myself to!" I availed myself of the opportunity, snatched my hat, and took to my heels, afraid lest the door-keeper should stop me.
Adolphe's stockings are either full of holes or else rough with the lichen of hasty mendings, for the day is not long enough for all that his wife has to do. He wears suspenders blackened by use. His linen is old and gapes like a door-keeper, or like the door itself.
As this play is to run four months longer, however, and as my time is limited, I go away at the close of the second act, while the orchestra is performing an overture on gongs and one-stringed fiddles. The door-keeper again says, "Ki hi-hi ki! Shoolah!" adding, this time however, "Chow-wow."
When the door-keeper opened the folding doors to Gwynplaine there were but few peers in the house; and these few were nearly all old men. In assemblies the old members are the most punctual, just as towards women they are the most assiduous.
'Better to be a door-keeper in the house of the Lord, than dwell in the tents of wickedness; so that's settled." And with this she established herself in a chair before the open door. Mother was near to assist, and I smiled to hear Aunt Hildy repeat: "Good arternoon; lay by your things," until I thought her lips must be parched with their constant use.
Beside the door stood a basin of holy water, and directly opposite, an image of the Saviour extended on the cross which they call a crucifix. Here we were left a few moments, then the door-keeper came back, and asked us if we would like to see the Black Cloisters; and if so, to follow her.
The door-keeper had succeeded in catching one miscreant, a boy of thirteen, and held him so tight by the ear that his pretty head seemed to have grown in a horizontal direction from his shoulders. "I will take you before the school-master, you plague-of-locusts, you swarm of bats!" cried the old man out of breath.
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