She drew aside the curtains and looked out, and saw that the snow had ceased to fall, and lay thick and white on the ground.

Then Beltane, lifting the curtain, opened the door and, striding into the chamber beyond, closed and barred the door behind him, and so stood, tall and menacing, looking on one who sat at a table busied with pen and ink-horn.

Miss Axtell had dropped the curtains of the bed.

Johnnie then, though badly burnt, pulled the curtains, valance, and all down on to the floor, and beat out the flames with his hands and feet.

exclaimed Honoria, raising the curtain, "it must be he that is coming in.

Grope your way down the passage, push aside the curtain with your stickit is far too foul to touch with the handand the mystery is made plain.

She hung a curtain over the door.

"So, with our young folk happily married, and you installed, and friend Beaumaroy suited to his likingwhy, upon my word, we may ring the curtain down on a happy endingof Act I, at all events!"

" Her women vanished, hurrying into another room, the last one drawing a cord that closed a jingling curtain.

The light in the hall was turned on, as well as a little lamp on the turn of the staircase behind a marble figure holding some curtains, which led the way to the library.

Rudolph groaned aloud, rose, and had parted the curtain to run out and fall upon them all, when suddenly, close at hand and sharp in the general din, there burst a quick volley of rifleshots.

The servant had thrown aside the curtains and the clothes, and displayed to the eyes of Sir Maurice, his son lying dead, a serpent twined round his arm, and his throat covered with blood.

When he got to the tent he opened the curtain, and beckoning Mrs. Cartwright, pushed Barbara inside.

The Colonel opened the half-closed door and looked out, as Jack pushed aside the table, tore away the red curtain, hammered at the sash, then, desperate, set his shoulder at it and forced the whole thing out.

And, withdrawing a curtain, he disclosed the figure of Eustachio.

(She shoots the miners and brings down the curtain triumphantly.)

Portions were fitted with such address as to fall before the windows, to which they formed very warm if not very ornamental curtains.

Once a week, when a bedroom is to be thoroughly cleaned, the house-maid should commence by brushing the mattresses of the bed before it is made; she should then make it, shake the curtains, lay them smoothly on the bed, and pin or tuck up the bottom valance, so that she may be able to sweep under the bed.

And as he turned away Maude Falconer let fall the curtain which she had raised at her window so that she might watch him.

We retired with a select few, and were served in an antechamber, separated from the grand reception-room by an arch, through which, by putting aside a silk curtain, Honoria could see, at a distance, any that entered, as they passed in from the hall.

It stirred the curtains at Mary's window; rustled through the great bowlful of crimson leaves upon Esther's writing table and softly stirred the dark hair of the girl as she sat with her face hidden in her curved arms.

Be that as it may, it swept down upon the cruiser, thickening as it approached, until presently it had spread a curtain between the warship and its charge.

The day arrives, but, alas! for the computer, the clouds let down their dark curtains, and veil the sun from his sight.

The housemaid should now dust the furniture, blinds, ornaments, &c.; polish the looking-glass; arrange the toilet-cover and muslin; remove the cover from the bed, and straighten and arrange the curtains and counterpane.

Then at the far end of the room he saw a curtain, undulating slightly as if from the movement of a person on the other side of it.