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Ladder in sentence

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Later on, he entered the house of a peasant, who agreed to sell him a ladder, and to go with him, carrying the ladder, to the little wood that overhung the Cours de la Fidelite, in Verrieres.
My ladder is well paid for, and I myself have had to pass some awkward moments in my life.'
About one o'clock in the morning, Julien, carrying his ladder, made his way into Verrieres.
Julien climbed up easily by his ladder.
'If it is a stranger, I shall make off as fast as my legs will carry me, leaving my ladder behind; but if it is she, what sort of welcome awaits me?
He placed his ladder against the wall by the side of the window and tapped himself on the shutter, softly at first then more loudly.
He stepped down, placed his ladder against one of the shutters, climbed up again and passing his hand through the heart-shaped opening, was fortunate in finding almost at once the wire fastened to the latch that closed the shutter.
He feared an instinctive cry of alarm; he could hear the dogs prowling with muttered growls round the foot of his ladder.
'I am going to draw up the ladder,' he said, 'so that it may not compromise us if one of the servants, awakened by the noise, goes the rounds.''Ah!Leave me, leave me rather,' the answer came with unfeigned anger.
He drew up the ladder very slowly, so as not to make any noise.
'That wicked Elisa will be coming into the room, what are we to do with that enormous ladder?' she said to her lover; 'where are we to hide it?
'I shall leave the ladder in the corridor, call the man and send him on an errand.''Remember to have some excuse ready in case the man notices the ladder when he passes it in the passage.''Yes, my angel,' said Madame de Renal as she gave him a kiss.
Madame de Renal took the ladder; plainly it was too heavy for her.
Julien went to her assistance; he was admiring that elegant figure, which suggested anything rather than strength, when suddenly, without help, she grasped the ladder and picked it up as she might have picked up a chair.
Five minutes later, when she returned to the corridor, the ladder was no more to be seen.
But, at that moment, if her husband saw the ladder!
At last she discovered the ladder under the roof, where the man had taken it and in fact hidden it himself.
In telling Julien of the incident of the ladder:'What shall I say to my husband,' she asked him, 'if the man tells him how he found the ladder?'
As she silently approached the door of the room in which he was, carrying the plate carefully, she found herself face to face with the servant who had hidden the ladder that morning.
It was M. de Renal again:'Let me in at once, there are burglars in the house!' he said, 'Saint-Jean found their ladder this morning.'
What would have happened to him on the night of his arrival at Verrieres if, at the moment when he placed his ladder against Madame de Renal's bedroom window, he had found that room occupied by a stranger, or by M. de Renal?
He brought the ladder; he found the volume, he handed it to her, still without being able to think of her.
As he carried back the ladder, in his preoccupation, his elbow struck one of the glass panes protecting the shelves; the sound of the splinters falling on the floor at length aroused him.
Take the gardener's long ladder from beside the well; place it against my window and come up to my room.
With the brightest moon you ever saw, to climb up by a ladder to a first floor, five and twenty feet from the ground!
I shall be a fine sight on my ladder!'Julien went up to his room and began to pack his trunk, whistling as he did so.
He went to reconnoitre the position and to try the weight of the ladder.
He went to fetch the huge ladder, waited five minutes, to allow time for a countermand, and at five minutes past one placed the ladder against Mathilde's window.
'You must pull up the ladder,' said Mathilde.
'It must not break the windows,' Mathilde went on, trying in vain to adopt the tone of ordinary conversation; 'you might, it seems to me, let the ladder down by means of a cord tied to the top rung.
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