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close the door on

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Before Ripperda could unclasp his lips to reply, the stranger had opened the door, and passed through it like a gliding shadow.

She looked so sweet when she said it, standing and smiling there in the middle of the floor, the door-way making a frame for her.

She walked away toward another door, which was masked with a curtain that she lifted.

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Squinty could look out, but the slats were as close together as those in a chicken coop, and the little pig could not get out.

On the upper part of the stem the whorls are very close together, but they are more widely separated at the lower portion.

Hilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."

Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.

Then the door opened, the portiere was swept aside, and Anselme announced "Monsieur de Garnache."

By the time I had done my toilette there was a tap at the door, and in another minute I was in the salle--manger.

As Perker said this, he looked towards the door, with an evident desire to render the leave-taking as brief as possible.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985