Brown rallied his absorbed faculties to appreciate what late hours meant to that busy janitor.

If the stranger were the first white man to enter, this motionless grim janitor gave no sign.

One cannot say while she was still crawling, for she could only crawl years after she should have been walking, but, before even precocious walking-time, tradition or the old gray-haired negro janitor relates, she would creep from baby to baby to play with it, put it to sleep, pat it, rub its stomach (a negro baby, you know, is all stomach, and generally aching stomach at that).

I entered, and was immediately confronted by a liveried janitor who bowed obsequiously.

If the stranger were the first white man to enter, this motionless grim janitor gave no sign.

in their joy they forgot to pay to Ku Whata Whata, the mysterious janitor of Hades, Niwa Reka's cloak as fee.

" "All right, there you go," said the good-natured janitor, swinging the door wide for them.

I hid my booty under my overcoat, nodded to the sleepy old janitor as he opened the door to me, and a few moments later I entered my own room with an expression which I had attempted to make quite calm and careless.

That by which they should have entered was held close and guarded by several stalwart janitors.

Can't you speak, eh?" It now flashed upon Lizzie that the venerable janitor was labouring under the impression that she had come to make application for the admission of a patient, and she quickly answered "Oh, no; it is nothing of the kind, I am glad to say.

"That wretched janitor declared I had seen a cat," she resumed; "and I could not persuade him otherwise.