Oolanga, in obedience to her gesture, went back to the iron
door.
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore; Not the least obeisance made he; not an instant stopped or stayed he; But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber
door -- Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber
door -- Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
While she was speaking the frog knocked again at the
door, and said:
I am certain there is somebody knocking at the
Door.
The
door has been opened to allow him to enter; by whom?
Mrs Brooks, thinking that the speaker was coming to rush out of the
door, hastily retreated down the stairs.
A second and third
door receded before me and slipped to one side as the first, before I reached a large inner chamber where I found food and drink set out upon a great stone table.
Him an' her used to go in an' shut th'
door an' stay there hours an' hours, readin' and talkin'.
and pointing out a small sofa for him to sit and wait for her, she went silently toward the
door that everyone was watching and it creaked very slightly as she disappeared behind it.
On an upper hall a
door was opened and a collection of heads peered curiously out, watching her.
Till he shook the
door handle, which he did immediately afterwards, I wasn't certain through which
door he had spoken.
We were unable to leave the torture-chamber now, unless Christine opened the
door to us; and it was only on this condition that we could hope to help her, for we did not even know where the
door might be.
