TO MY FATHER (Whose feet tread the lost aeons) Open the door, And listen!

With a shiver, I closed the door, and made my way, quietly, up to bed.

We took over all our own servants and found many others who were on the permanent staff of the ministry, footmen, huissiers, and odd men who attended to all the fires, opened and shut all the doors, windows, and shutters.

] He started again when I said this, and going across the room, locked the door and put the key in his pocket.

Excitedly, I sprang down the steps, and, guided by the rattle of the window-sash, reached the door of one of the empty bedrooms, at the back of the house.

Pepper, as soon as I walked away, left the door, and ran ahead, still nosing and sniffing as he went along.

"Very well, then," he said, throwing open the door and standing aside for Henshaw to pass out; "I will go alone.

" He called to a pupil passing the door, and told him the strangers would like to inspect the school work.

You think it's a pleasure I can't slam the door right in Mrs. Katz's face when six times a day she orders towels and ice-water?

As I unlocked the great door, at the top of the steps, I paused, nervously, a moment, at the strange, desolate smell that assailed my nostrils.

It was as though, entering a cottage door, you were to discover yourself on the floor of Madison Square Garden.

Can I come in?" Brother Paul, still with the look of the Avenging Angel on his pale, young face, held the door open to let the Boy come in.

There was a short pause while the man unscrewed his instrument; then he stepped back and pushed open the door.

A voiceless prayer went up to Heaven for the child's safety and her own, for already she heard them approaching her door, and made sure her last hour was come.

" "How did you find out the secret door of the wardrobe?"

Reaching it, I burst into the passage; then, turning quickly, slammed and bolted the door, just as the first of the creatures rushed against it, with a sudden shock.

I do not know how long I sat, rapt in this gloomy vision; but at last it occurred to me to rise and try the door, which to my astonishment was open.

I came up the arroyo as he flung the door open and rushed out.

After Mäzli had slipped out he banged the big door with all his might so that the hinges rattled.

The coach would probably have passed through into the stable without any serious damage had it not been for the bar or threshold that was stretched across the ground to fasten the doors to.

This was, of itself, sufficient to show how huge an effort the creatures had made to break down the door, and how nearly they had succeeded.

"If you bar the door, mother," he would say, "I'll wash the floor;" and wash the floor he did, times without number!

I shall say, 'I did;' and then he'll want to know how I saw the playground door from my bedroom window, which looks out on the road; and then the fat'll be in the fire, and it'll all come out about that supper.

Edith was sitting in a becoming corner under a shaded light from which she could watch the door, when Vincy came up to talk to her.

It might have been four o'clock when he heard the door of Father Holt's chamber open.