Then she tripped on a low stone step, stumbled, and was half-carried, half-thrown into a narrow and malodorous hallway.

The door swung back, and then a figure emerged full from a background of familiarly dim hallway and curve of banister.

A draft eddied through the broad old hallway as I stepped over the threshold, and there was a smell of wood smoke that told me the chimneys were still cold from disuse.

She caught my hand in hers and sped up the few remaining steps, then through the upper hallway, guiding me the while her light feet flew; and I, embarrassed, bewildered, half laughing, half shamed to go a-racing through a strange house in such absurd a fashion.

This time he led her into the dusky hallway, where open windows brought the cool night to other low-voiced couples.

" The three negroes stood motionless in the dusty hallway, motionless save for the racking of Vannie's sobs.

The door swung back, and then a figure emerged full from a background of familiarly dim hallway and curve of banister.

In the grand hallway, they came upon Britt and Saunders white-faced and excited.

" Ulysses was already in the street,and in the little hallway various objects of bric-a-brac that had obtruded themselves and confused the fugitive in his blind flight were still trembling and then falling and breaking on the floor with a crash.

A pair of little stairs led out of this into another little room, higher up, and on the other side of the passage was a long, mysterious hallway.

There!" Around a rear hallway, they were almost immediately into a blank, staring hotel bedroom, fresh towels on the furniture-tops only enhancing its staleness.

They emerged in a round hallway at the foot of a staircase.

I ascended the simple staircase; in the wall stand plaster statues which impose silenceat any rate I couldn't utter a sound in this sacred hallway.

"Why, Billie," Laura stopped in her transports to regard her friend with wide eyes, "aren't you simply wild about the place too?" "Oh, I suppose so," said Billie, adding as a shadow crossed her face: "The folks think I'm awful, all 'cept Chet, and I suppose I ambut I'd give the whole place, tunnels, spooky hallways, ghostly attic, and everything for just a few little hundred dollar bills.

"Why, Billie," Laura stopped in her transports to regard her friend with wide eyes, "aren't you simply wild about the place too?" "Oh, I suppose so," said Billie, adding as a shadow crossed her face: "The folks think I'm awful, all 'cept Chet, and I suppose I ambut I'd give the whole place, tunnels, spooky hallways, ghostly attic, and everything for just a few little hundred dollar bills.

"'One time,' Mike said, 'I was going along an upstairs hallway and I looked through a door: a little girl was sitting up in bed watching me.

But at last I mounted some lofty steps, and entered a brown linoleum-covered hallway.

Upstairs, a central hallway runs through the house, double doors opening at both riverward and landward ends upon broad porticoes.

The once decent hallways were smutted with grimy hands; the wide marble steps were huddled with alien, unclean people.