The Trust might be locked up in any one of some twenty receptacles for papers, situated in four different
rooms; and which
room was the likeliest to look in, which receptacle was the most promising to begin with, which position among other heaps of papers the one paper needful might be expected to occupy, was more than she could say.
The
room in which young Robinson lived in New York faced Washington Square and was long and narrow like a hallway.
"This is the
room," said the housekeeper, from her furry throat.
Under this arrangement, the front bedroom, on the opposite side of the passage--next to the
room in which Geoffrey slept--was left empty, and was called, for the time being, the spare
room.
He had entered by the open window at the extremity of the 'off-turning' gallery; he had passed Frederic Larsan's door and mine, had turned to the right, and had entered Mademoiselle Stangerson's
room. I am before the door of her ante-room--it is open.
She accordingly ascended the stairs softly, and stood at the door of the front room--a drawing-room, connected with the
room immediately behind it (which was a bedroom) by folding-doors in the common manner.
They set forward; and, with a grandeur of air, a dignified step, which caught the eye, but could not shake the doubts of the well-read Catherine, he led the way across the hall, through the common drawing-room and one useless antechamber, into a
room magnificent both in size and furniture -- the real drawing-room, used only with company of consequence.
"Please make yourselves comfortable while I go to the door of the Throne
Room and tell Oz you are here."
As is invariably the case, after they had been asked at what price they wanted
rooms, it appeared that there was not one decent
room for them; one decent
room had been taken by the inspector of railroads, another by a lawyer from Moscow, a third by Princess Astafieva from the country.
At the farther end of this charming
room was an open doorway, and he crossed over to find himself in a bedroom containing more comforts than the shaggy man had ever before imagined.
"We will go up-stairs to your
room. Your trunk is already there, I presume.
Macarnaght, of the Indian Medical Service, beat her over the head with a gun, before she could understand that she must give
room for those who could give quinine.