 | 1820 - 490 pages
...London, a bailiff paid tho porter who was entrusted to carry me from the inn, and took me from him at the door of the house to which he had been directed. He had the honesty to return with me, having himself assumed the garb of a porter, and, in this disguise,... | |
 | Horae - 1853 - 72 pages
...and quit the path which his Maker has laid down for his happiness ? It was with these feelings that he knocked at the door of the house to which he had been summoned, and iii one of the upper -windows of which a light was burning. He was admitted instantly.... | |
 | George Payne Rainsford James - 1853 - 370 pages
...anger had passed away; and then they parted, never to meet again. CHAPTEE VII. STANDING in the street, at the door of the house to which he had been directed, Jean Charost found a common-looking man whose rank or station was hardly to be divined by his dress... | |
 | Burrowdale - 1861 - 256 pages
...added he turning back. After some few difficulties, and many inquiries, his lordship at last arrived at the door of the house to which he had been directed, and having communicated with the nurse respecting the nature of his visit, he was gratefully ushered... | |
 | George Payne Rainsford James - English fiction - 1864 - 164 pages
...had passed away, and then they parted — never to meet again. CHAPTER XXIII. STANDING in the street, at the door of the house to which he had been directed, Jean Charost found a common-looking man, whose rank or station was hardly to be divined by bis dress;... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1868 - 304 pages
...driver to make the best of his way to Upper Bakerstreet. Not without trepidation did Pomfret knock at the door of the house to which he had been directed. The summons was answered by a female servant, who informed him that Mr. Leycester was very unwell —... | |
 | Jeremiah Clemens - United States - 1900 - 330 pages
...Tell the gentleman I will call to-night." " He told me to bring you with me." " That is impossible. 1 have company; but say to him I will be there before...sick man's room. He found him stretched upon a low bedstead, with a table drawn near, on which a tallow candle was burning dimly, and some phials of medicine... | |
 | Cirilo Villaverde - Literary Collections - 2005 - 545 pages
...de San Ignacio, and before his horse went one pace farther, he reined it in and stopped the carriage at the door of the house to which he had been directed. This was a proof that the black carriage driver did not merit the epithet of "ignoramus" that Leonardo... | |
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The messenger departed, and Colonel Burr returned to his parlor without a trace of anxiety on his brow. His friends soon dispersed ; and about eleven o'clock he knocked at the door of the house to which he had been directed. 