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"That's right," exclaimed K., with such joy that he nearly interrupted what the man was saying, "I'm sure that'll make me feel better straight away, I'm really not that weak, all I need is a little support under my arms, I won't cause you much trouble, it's not such a long way anyway, lead me to the door and then I'll sit on the
stairs
for a while and soon recover, as I don't suffer from attacks like this at all, I'm surprised at it myself.
It seemed to him that all his strength returned to him at once, and to get a foretaste of freedom he stepped straight on to one of the
stairs
and took his leave there of his companions, who bowed to him.
Just as K. paused for a while some young girls ran out of one of the flats and rushed higher up the stairs, laughing.
At the next turn of the stairs, however, K. encountered all the girls once more.
They stood on both sides of the stairs, pressing themselves against the wall so that K. could get through between them, and smoothed their aprons down with their hands.
It was thanks to her that K. found the right direction without delay - he would have continued up the
stairs
straight in front of him, but she showed him that to reach Titorelli he would need to need to turn off to one side.
The painter leapt over to the door, opened it very slightly - the girls' clasped hands could be seen stretching through the crack as if they wanted something - and said, "If you're not quiet I'll throw you all down the
stairs.
As soon as they were on the
stairs
the gentlemen wanted to take K.'s arms, but K. said "Wait till we're in the street, I'm not ill."
The hard red bricks have only grown more firmly set with time, and their oak
stairs
do not creak and grunt when you try to go down them quietly.
From the stairs, they went into the drawing-room, which was a large, bright room, decorated with a somewhat startling though cheerful paper of a blue ground.
Harris is going to sing a comic song!""Oh, how jolly!" they murmur; and they hurry in from the conservatory, and come up from the stairs, and go and fetch each other from all over the house, and crowd into the drawing-room, and sit round, all smirking in anticipation.
You are afraid to poke your nose into any room in the house now; so, after walking up and down the
stairs
for a while, you go and sit in your own bedroom.
It is a veritable picture of an old country inn, with green, square courtyard in front, where, on seats beneath the trees, the old men group of an evening to drink their ale and gossip over village politics; with low, quaint rooms and latticed windows, and awkward
stairs
and winding passages.
The door to the entrance hall was open and as the front door of the flat was also open he could see onto the landing and the
stairs
where they began their way down below.
Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief clerk had already reached the stairs; with his chin on the banister, he looked back for the last time.
On ascending the
stairs
to the place of deposit for Miss Peyton's articles of domestic economy, she availed herself, however, of an opportunity to inquire of her nephew, whether General Montrose suffered as much from the gout as he had done when she knew him.
These interruptions, however, interfered but little with the principal business in hand; and the captain had got happily through with this important duty, before the surgeon returned to announce all things ready for his accommodation in the room above
stairs.
Harvey gave the captain a glance, and led the way down the stairs, first desiring the woman to leave the prisoner to himself, in order that he might digest the wholesome mental food that he had so lately received.
The
stairs
creaked faintly.
If them
stairs
hadn't broke down you'd 'a' seen how much dream it was!
He had so well watched me that he knew where I was, though I did not so much as know that he was in the house; and he briskly comes up the
stairs
and, seeing me at work, comes into the room to me directly, and began just as he did before, with taking me in his arms, and kissing me for almost a quarter of an hour together.
I told him I did not know who should be coming upstairs, for I believed there was nobody in the house but the cook and the other maid, and they never came up those
stairs.
I told him that though my cargo of tobacco was damaged, yet that it was not quite lost; that the merchant I had been consigned to had so honestly managed for me that I had not wanted, and that I hoped, with frugal management, I should make it hold out till more would come, which I expected by the next fleet; that in the meantime I had retrenched my expenses, and whereas I kept a maid last season, now I lived without; and whereas I had a chamber and a dining-room then on the first floor, as he knew, I now had but one room, two pair of stairs, and the like.
Sometimes my imagination formed an idea of one frightful thing, sometimes of another; sometime I thought he had discovered me, and was come to upbraid me with ingratitude and breach of honour; and every moment I fancied he was coming up the
stairs
to insult me; and innumerable fancies came into my head of what was never in his head, nor ever could be, unless the devil had revealed it to him.
As for me, I had very luckily stepped into a house where there was a lace chamber, up one pair of stairs, and had the satisfaction, or the terror indeed, of looking out of the window upon the noise they made, and seeing the poor creature dragged away in triumph to the justice, who immediately committed her to Newgate.
One day, fearing her niece was ill, Madame Raquin climbed the
stairs.
At the sound of the woman's heavy step on the wooden stairs, Laurent became frantic.
When by chance Madame Raquin and Camille went downstairs, Therese bounded from her chair, to silently, and with brutal energy, press her lips to those of her sweetheart, remaining thus breathless and choking until she heard the
stairs
creak.
At which command all will issue forth, and he himself, advancing half-way down the stairs, will embrace him closely, and salute him, kissing him on the cheek, and will then lead him to the queen's chamber, where the knight will find her with the princess her daughter, who will be one of the most beautiful and accomplished damsels that could with the utmost pains be discovered anywhere in the known world.
'A wretched-looking woman, the man's wife, met me on the stairs, and, telling me that he had just fallen into a kind of doze, led me softly in, and placed a chair for me at the bedside.
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