The half-open top of this framework was not three feet under the window sill of the lighted room.

" "Father Kennedy, there's a man dying in the block behind the church," said the servant from the half-open parlor door.

Then, with a nod of her head, and a gesture of the hand, she invitingly indicated the half-open door.

The gray light of morning struggled through the half-open shutter, the door was ajar and merry faces were peeping in.

The most beautiful women peep modestly out of the half-open bailis.

The outer door was half-open so that he thought he was expected, and he switched on the light in the little hall, and shut the door behind him with the simplicity of habit.

" She wandered away toward the farther end of the room, where, through half-open doors, a shining surface of mahogany reflected a flower-wreathed cake in which two candles dwindled.

The prisoner sat with half-open mouth, overwhelmed by this flood of eloquence.

Mr. Fairweather slipped the book he was reading into a half-open drawer, and pushed in the drawer.

Cicely appeared in the teaberry gown, and if the spirit of Judith Pacewalk hovered o'er the scene, and allowed its gaze to wander from the charming bride, over the happy faces of the rest of the company, to the half-open door of the dining-room, where shone the radiant face of the proudest cook in the world, it must have been as well satisfied with the fate of the pink garment as it could possibly expect to be.

Then his head fell back, and the last murmur came from his half-open lips, "Helios!

In the second starboard berth was a small table, and on the floor a thick round ink-pot, whose continual rolling on its side made me look down; and there I saw a flat square book with black covers, which curved half-open of itself, for it had been wet and stained.

He looked down at Aldous, chuckling in his beard; and Aldous, with his bruised and swollen face and half-open eyes, grinned like a happy fiend.

The fire was burning brightly, the glasses and the decanter on the small table spoke of cheer, the curtains were drawn, and through a half-open door behind the piano one had a hint of a mysterious other room; one could see nothing within it save a large brass knob or ball, which caught the light of the candle on the piano.

"It's all right, Bill," said a mutual friend, through the half-open door; "he's got a new 'art.

"It's time to be moving, Monsignor," said Father Jervis through the half-open door.

Hortense, once a queen, in a half-open carriage; Louis Napoleon, the present Emperor of France, on a stone bench, that served him as a couch! CHAPTER VII.

And I saw something more during that flasha half-open door in the wall to the left of the car, and the first steps of a winding stair.

He was about to answer her with an oath, when suddenly Katherine stood in the half-open door smiling over the top of a great bunch of roses.

The two men moved slowly, side by side, toward the door, and in the half-open doorway, after a little further trifling, the title was sold.

He spoke in a low tone just without the half-open door, folding again a paper which the lad had lately borne to the apothecary of the rue Royale, and had now brought back with Joseph's answer written under Honoré's inquiry.

" "You musn' talk like that," said the woman hurriedly, with a glance back at the half-open door.

CHAPTER X THE TRUTH When Burke presented himself at the door of the main bungalow he found it half-open.

Some one was waiting for him behind the half-open door.

Mr. Nott was evidently absent, and after a quick glance at the half-open cabin-door, Renshaw turned towards the galley.