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...gentle hand, but the thought merely made her blush and look at the floor.With a sigh, Frederick stood violently and exited the room. A paper fell from his Byron. Roxanna automatically picked it up. The poor man! thought our little countrymaid, gazing after him through the sunny open doorway, so different from the dark orifices and somber corners of the manor in England. But no! and Roxanna shook her golden head firmly. She wished that she were not so invested in Frederick’s happiness, were not so aware of his every sigh and glance. Yet she could...
...return. Her eyes saw the array of sharp tools laid upon the shelf as though in wait for her. Her hand moved again through the dusty gloom, selected a pitchfork, clutched it to her breast.“Viscountess Fabreigh?”She turned. There, framed in the doorway, one hand entwined about the harsh leather of the reins, dark blond curls breathing with a life of their own in the slight morning breeze, stood The Stable Boy.It was all she could do to whisper: “Yes?”“Viscountess...
Dave Filipi, a 58-year-old family doctor, made his way to the back room of McKenna's Blues Bar near the University of Nebraska's Omaha campus. Nervously smoothing his suit, he lingered in the doorway. "To be honest, I'm a Republican," Filipi sheepishly said as two dozen curious faces swung around toward...
...worst sensation comes, of course, when the blast is nearest. In December, I was in Ramadi. After a short foot patrol with Marines, I walked back into the tiny base nestled on a bad street in the city. Minutes after I entered, a huge mortar slammed into the doorway through which I just passed. The entire building shook as though some huge hand had shoved it. Inside, I felt like my bones for a second had turned to metal, and someone had rung me with a sledgehammer...
Diana Ross's "I'm Coming Out" blared over speakers as University President Drew G. Faust emerged from Mass. Hall on Monday evening in her first public appearance since taking office. Faust paused in the doorway, briefly dancing along to the music, before continuing on to greet a small audience of Harvard affiliates who had gathered in Harvard Yard to chat with the president over ice cream...