Still there were stones below, but what with fatigue and darkness, they were now compelled to stop, and Sandy went home, after promising to come as early as he could in the morning and call Willie, who was to leave the end of a string hanging out of the staircase window, whose other end should pass through the keyhole of his door and be tied to his wrist.

A staircase turret communicates with the apartments, the principal one being appropriated as a private dining-room by the late King, while the larger apartments on the east front were reserved for splendid entertainments.

Just as I closed the staircase door behind me, I heard a rumbling noise from above; then all was still.

As she shepherded her little party across the staircase lobby, she managed to mutter into her niece's ear: "I want you to take on Miss Burnaby for me, BubblesI'm anxious to make friends with Helen Brabazon.

Naomi turned her eyes from him to Long Oliver, who leant against the staircase wall with his arms crossed and a veiled amusement in his face.

And so it came to pass that I forsook the place, and by climbing a little staircase cut in the rock, against which the house was built, reached a cavern far above the roof and found at last my ideal writing-place upon the ledge in front of it, where the mallow and the crane's-bill crept over a patch of turf.

"He was quite pleased to find the staircase opening out of the roomhe calls it the companion-ladder.

CHAPTER XI Lady Mary came down the oak staircase singing.

"Go, sister!" said Jozsef, "take my wife and children to the attics; we will try to guard the staircase step by step.

Wait until you hear the old clock on the staircase strike three; that is the hour, I have been told, when all sleep most soundly.

Access was gained to the different apartments by a large spiral staircase winding round the interior of the N. turret.

Then their affright increased when they passed from the factory to the house amid that absolute solitude, the gallery steeped in slumber, the staircase quivering, all the doors upstairs open, as in some uninhabited place long since deserted.

Stealthily as any burglar he had crept about his own house, had taken up the whole of the front staircase carpet, and had with trouble pried off one board of the stair in which the letters were hid.

Determined, however, not to yield to despair, he continued his search, and finding a small door opening upon a staircase communicating with the summit of the tower, he unfastened it (for the bolt was on his own side), and hurried up the steps.

I got tangled in the staircase curtains and fell down the stairs.

The staircase lights were blown out by the wind, and I took my reading-lamp and went out to see who it was.

When leaving the artist she had met two other ladies, patronesses of charitable institutions, ascending the staircase bent on the same errand.

Sometimes he rolled it over the floor, and sometimes he threw it in the air and pushed it through the staircase railings to the hall below.