"Suppose the
stairs get steeper?" suggested Zeb, doubtfully.
No sound came from the
stairs; no teacher, or ghost of a teacher, appeared at the door.
there's her bell!" After which amazing speech, Nancy sprang to her feet, dashed out of the room, and went clattering down the
stairs.
Well, as I advanced, it seemed to me the
stair grew airier and a thought more lightsome; and I was wondering what might be the cause of this change, when a second blink of the summer lightning came and went.
When she and her husband were together, a little later, she told the news from up
stairs in greater detail.
"Kitty and I are going up
stairs to sit in my dressing room."
'No, but I would be windy of being his mother.' It is possible that she could have been his mother had that other son lived, he might have managed it from sheer love of her, but for my part I can smile at one of those two figures on the
stair now, having long given up the dream of being for ever known, and seeing myself more akin to my friend, the tailor, for as he was found at the end on his board, so I hope shall I be found at my handloom, doing honestly the work that suits me best.
Then, rising, he went out, and meeting a servant on the
stairs, he asked, "Where is M.
Soon afterwards, came a slamming and banging of doors; and then came running down
stairs, a gentleman with whiskers, and out of breath, who seemed to be red-hot.
Let the house reveal its own secrets; and, one by one, as they descend the
stairs from their beds, let the sleepers disclose themselves.
Ah, to descend, to descend into that pit of darkness every entrance to which was closed to him,...for the
stairs that led below the stage were forbidden to one and all that night!
She thought that this revived within her certain old fears of hers that the house was haunted; and that she flew up the kitchen
stairs without knowing how she got up, to be nearer company.