...whole holiday, or a usurer for cent, per cent. Every thing is looking quite gay, like a Christmas firo to one who has just come out of a Christmas fog. The...any stranger ; you know whom I'm always at home to — don't let anybody in that you don't know well — mind ! " You listen, with your hands uncomfortably...

...and a slight crumple is the sole consequence. You ring the bell hastily, rather anxious. " Tim," yon cry softly, admonishing the sleepy little sinecurist that attends to the door; "Tim, there's a knock. Now, pray be cautious; I'm going out immediately ; and can't see any stranger ; you...

...take a little more pains than usual with your dress, rejecting this waistcoat as too quakerF2 ish, and selecting your liveliest pair of gloves to match,...little sinecurist that attends to the door ; " Tim, there 'sa knock. Now, pray be cautious ; I 'm going out immediately ; and can't see any stranger ;...

...when, just as your personal equipments are all but complete, not quite, " rat-tat-tat—tat-tat—tat!" there is a knock at the door. Well, a knock at the...little sinecurist that attends to the door; "Tim., there's a knock. Now, pray be cautious; I 'm going out immediately; and can't see any stranger; you...

...there is something startling, something omin02 ous, something unwelcome. Nobody has knocked—nobody in the shape of a visitor —for some days, and it...admonishing the sleepy little sinecurist that attends to the door—"Tim, there's a knock. Now, pray be cautious; I am going out immediately and can't see any stranger....