He there had a little bachelor's lodging, which was kept in order by the concierge of the house, who, being very well paid, proved an extremely discreet domestic.

The large double doors, from which the paint had peeled in patches, were closed, but I rang the bell for the concierge; and after a delay of several minutes I heard a slight click which meant that the doors had opened for me.

Only a stern sense of duty as concierge woke him up enough to demand, mechanically, who it was that the strange monsieur desired to visit at this late hour?

The "monsieur" who had called had probably also arrived late, after the concierge had gone to bed in his dim box, and become too drowsy to notice such details as the difference between voices, especially if they were those of foreigners.

I could go downstairs now, past the sleeping concierge, and with luck no one need ever know that I had been in this dark room of death.

Keeper N. keeper, custodian, custos [Lat.], ranger, warder, jailer, gaoler, turnkey, castellan^, guard; watchdog, watchman; Charley; chokidar^, durwan^, hayward^; sentry, sentinel; watch and ward; concierge, coast guard,

The unknown individual, who owes his triumph to the kindness of his concierge and his water-carrier, becomes a member of the Commune.

It was hethe seducer; the concierge had recognised him.

"The next day, and the days following, the concierge was much astonished not to see his lodger of the fourth floor, who was accustomed to stop and talk with him on her way to fetch her café au lait.

Add to this the perilous fact, that our concierge is lieutenant in a Federal battalion, and you will have good reason to consider me the most unfortunate of réfractaires.

I decide on remaining; I will stay and see the end, even should the terrible Pyat and the sweet Vermorel both of them be living under the same roof with me, even if my concierge be M. Delescluze himself!

Something like a concierge turned princess, and combining the petty spite of the porter's lodge with the caprices of the boudoir and the fagged nerves of the student.

The bookbinder had a map, and was pointing out to the concierge and tenants the position of the relieving armies.

"See where he went, ask the concierge," he said to Tignol.

" They left the hotel by the main entrance, and were just going around into Rue Marboeuf when the concierge from across the way met them with word that Caesar had arrived.

He pointed to the open door where the concierge was waiting.

Mais oui; there one can dine under the watchful glare of Rosa, the plump, black-eyed wife of the concierge.

But they were not long left to themselves; in their second week, the concierge's little girl late one afternoon brought Janet's card up to Adelaide.

Why, then picking up her skirt she threads her way through the crowded streets, reads the advertisements on the walls, hails the omnibus, inquires at the concierge's loge, murmurs as she goes upstairs, "Que c'est haut le cinqième," and then?

The poor concierge was in despair; she said the propriétaire would wait if you had only said when you were coming back, or if you only had let us know what you wished to be done.

I wore a thick veil, for I did not wish to be recognised; the concierge of course knew me, but she can be depended upon.

I knew in my heart of hearts that I should never return, but no word was spoken, and I continued a pleasant delusion with myself; I told my concierge that I would return in a month, and I left all to be sold, brutally sold by auction, as the letter I read in the last chapter charmingly and touchingly describes.

I opened the door to the concierge's loge to put my question.

In the window, at the back of the half dark room, sat the concierge, whom I had known for nearly twenty years, a brave, intelligent, fragile woman.

While they did so she apparently gave them some directions about myself, for anon the concierge returned, and with extreme politeness told me that Madame Fournier greatly hoped that I would stay in St. Claude a day or two as she had the desire to see me again very soon.