Under his escort she went tardily forward to the main front, whose
shuttered windows, like sightless eyeballs, excluded the possibility of watchers.
The three blows were scarcely struck, when the inside blind was opened and a light appeared through the panes of the outside
shutter.
"We are not English," said my companion, watching me helplessly while I threw open the
shutters of one of the divisions of the wide high window.
Now, would you have the kindness to go into your room and bar your
shutters?"
The house was readily found; for there were still many persons gazing up at the closed
shutters, with an objectless curiosity, from the opposite side of the way.
When Elizabeth was attired, she approached a window and drew its curtain, and throwing open its
shutters she endeavored to look abroad on the village and the lake.
The lower
shutters would not be closed at that hour; and if they were, she could lay her hand on the Bible, in its place on the parlor book-shelf, in the dark.
It had a wide door in front and a broad
shutter at each side.
A second door, leading from the bed-chamber into the yard, was locked; and the wooden
shutter protecting the one window of the room was carefully barred.
'Tis some one knocking softly at the
shutter. Who can it be!'
At this moment, the
shutter of a window opened, and disclosed the sallow face and the dark eyes of the young man, who with intense interest watched the scene which was preparing.
When I got back and entered, the king was within, and was opening the
shutter that closed the window-hole, to let in air and light.