You insult me by proposing such treachery to me.

Not another word about it, if you please!" Homer returned to his library, and closed the door after him; for the last remark of the owner of the Bellevite had excited him, and he could not trust himself to remain any longer in the presence of his Union brother.
"I am all ready, papa," said Florry, who had opened the door once before, and found that her father was engaged.
"I cannot find Christy, but I hope he is not far off," added Captain Passford, as he went into the room, and, to the astonishment of his daughter, bolted the door after him.
"I did not know the young man he went out to see, but I noticed that he looked something like Major Pierson," said Florry.
"Then it was the major's brother, and he came from Nassau with us on board of the steamer.

I hope neither of them will get into any trouble, for all this country is in a very excited condition," said the captain, as he carefully opened the window at the side of the apartment.
This was quite as singular a movement as bolting the door; and the fair girl, who had heard some of the energetic conversation in the hall, began to think that something strange was about to transpire in the mansion.

Her father spent some time in looking out the window; for it was now quite dark, and he could not make out objects outdoors very readily.
The window opened upon a lawn covered with orange, magnolia, and other ornamental trees.

The house was low on the ground, and it was not more than three feet from the window-sill to the lawn.