They noticed to their surprise that he stood before them the picture of abject terrorhis knees trembling, his hand shaking so violently that the door-latch by which he supported himself rattled audibly: his white lips were parted, and his eyes fixed on the merry officer of justice in the middle of the room.

For a moment she stood quite still, gazing at the door-latch; then rushed out into the darkness, calling, "Papa, papa!"

With that she walked softly up the stairs, and listened at the door-latch; for the sound of her grandmother's voice was encouraging, and Dotty, in her loneliness, longed to be near the dear people of the family, even if she could not see them.

" It was then that the door-latch clicked and one entered without knocking.

The clumsy string-lifted wooden door-latches, and the wooden pins fixing the framing, and which have never been cut off, but stick up some inches from the wall, are still all there.

I determined that my visit to England should bring me face to face with the people; that I should converse with the artizan in his workshop, and lifting the lowly door-latches of the poor, should become intimately acquainted with their lifewith their manners, and it might be, with their hopes and sorrows.

I heard the back-door-latch click, and thought it was mother, and commenced humming in the middle of a tune, as if I'd been humming the rest and had just reached that part; but the figure standing there was a sight too tall for mother.

" Her hand was on the door-latch.

Rugs of bright colors for the delight of my eyes, a palm with nice shoots for me to eat, deep arm-chairs, under which I hide my woolen ball as a future surprise for myselfah, and the cork hanging by a string to the door-latch!

He looked up at them and rose quickly and stood a moment, his thumb on the door-latch.

There came a tramping in the vestibule, the door-latch jumped with a loud rattle, and in came Sidney Trove.

The door-latch clicked promptly in answer to her ring, and at the top of the third flight she met Sally.

The high windows flickered, and there was not a sound in the house except the low murmur or crackle of the glowing backlog, until the door-latch clanked, and the door flew wide and was slammed shut again.

The Abenaqui girl dragged on him with all her strength as he reached for the iron door-latch.

He fastened Niger to the gate, crossed the little garden, gently lifted the door-latch, and ascended the stair.