" "It must be a disease," laughed Billie, as the girls ascended the old staircase together.

Yet it was with reluctant feet that she left her room, descended the broad staircase to the entrance hall, and addressed herself to the study door.

He soon found the Kazan Passagea very nest of toyshopsand, following the directions given, he mounted a narrow staircase.

While your really brave fellow is climbing a dizzy staircase to the moonI write in figureI would shake with fear upon a lower platform.

She lived on the fourth floorone went up a broad, bare, cold stone staircase (which always reminded me of some of the staircases in the Roman palaces).

Just as she was about to step out upon the back porch, she heard a door open behind her, and turning, saw, emerging from the closed apartment which contained the staircase, a strange figure.

Now we pass up the grand staircase, where I pause to note the Ionic columns, the ormolu and porcelain candelabra, a Siberian vase from the Emperor Nicholas, five immense vases from the Emperor of China, a painting of William IV., and one of Maria of Stockholm and family.

As his eyes grew accustomed to the dim light in the hall, and he saw the winding staircase with its richly carved posts, the beauty of the stained-glass windows, the graceful hangings, the broad doors, the pictures, and the flowers, there came upon him a sense of strange familiarity with the scene.

As he rushed down the main staircase to the library, where his check-book and some ready cash were locked in the safe, he met a stranger who had just been admitted and shown into the room.

So he said good-by to the Witch and ran down the spiral staircase.

" Murmuring his thanks, Leonard hurried down the spiral staircase, and quitting the cathedral, proceeded in the direction of Wood-street.

Yet certain appetizing smells, which come down the staircase from upstairs when the door is opened, lead me to believe she is deceiving us.

He had waited there until the footman returned after looking for Veronica in the drawing-room, and when he heard that she was not there, he turned to reach the staircase again and go up to his own bachelor's quarters, for he feared to meet Matilde and hoped to put off seeing her until dinner-time, when he might so manoeuvre as not to be left alone with her.

" Dolly, who had witnessed this little sisterly passage of arms in shy fright, put her hand in Pamela's and whispered, as they gained the staircase: "Dry your eyes, Pamela dear; Betty is most forward to speak thus to her elder sister.

On one occasion he speaks of coming out of a tavern with the dramatist, when they both found the staircase in a very cork-screw condition: and elsewhere, of encountering a Mr. C, who "had no notion of meeting with a bon-vivant in a scribbler," and summed the poet's eulogy with the phrase, "he drinks like a man."

At the same moment, from the archway which supported the great oak staircase, the butler entered, carrying lights.

He sneaked into his clothes, and descended the cold, creaking staircase in his stocking-feet.

But she had neither smile nor blush for him; on the contrary, when the dim light that entered the dingy staircase disclosed who awaited her, she drew back a pace with a look of dislike and embarrassment.

We were shown the rooms for the private parties of the Court, the school-room, with scenes from the life of the Ancient Greeks, and then conducted down the marble staircases to the lower story, which is to contain Schnorr's magnificent frescoes of the Nibelungen Liedthe old German Iliad.

To-day the prisonerstwo hundred in allcrowded the floor, the stairs, even the deep gallery above; but on the south side, facing the staircase, two heavy curtains had been looped back from the atrium, and there a ray of wintry sunshine fell through the glass roof upon the famous Bayfield pavement and the figure of Narcissus gravely expounding it.

Within their walls are winding staircases by which one can reach narrow balconies like those on lighthouses and look upon the Taj from different heights and study its details from the top as well as the bottom.

" So Dotty, under peril of going home bareheaded, was obliged to creep up the rickety staircase with Mandoline.

The getting in indeed, and the crowding up those inconvenient staircases, was bad enough,but there was still a law of civility to women recognised to quite as great an extent as we ever found in the other passagesand how a little difficulty overcome heightened the snug seat, and the play, afterwards!

And with a mocking laugh Victorine bounded down the staircase and went into the kitchen.

He remembers that her loveliness and her pluck uplifted him above all former littlenesses of hesitation; and, seizing her outstretched hand, they flew up the main staircase and in less than a minute reached the opening of the long corridor where the rooms were.