It is true that we were not supposed to enter the deeper
corridors and apartments except on special occasions when we were instructed to do so; but as we were considered a lower order without intelligence there was little reason to fear that we could accomplish any harm by so doing, and so we were not hindered as we entered the
corridor which led below.
He sniffed at me and growled ominously, but when I spoke to him and patted his huge head he at length became reconciled to the change, and at my command trotted off along the
corridor in the direction we had been going when our progress had been interrupted by the therns.
Three hours later the nurse met her in the
corridor, innocently on her way to make inquiries at Mrs.
Presently officers and slaves commenced to traverse the
corridor on matters pertaining to their duties, and then came the emperor, scowling and wrathful.
This exit barred to him Turan turned back into the
corridor. He followed it cautiously and silently.
Three minutes later Levin ran full speed into the
corridor, not looking at his watch for fear of aggravating his sufferings.
The tapestry was the covering of a door which fell open and showed her that there was another part of the
corridor behind it, and Mrs.
So saying, she led the way through winding
corridors until at a sudden turn we came upon an opening which overlooked the Valley Dor.
They walked along the
corridor till they came to the entrance of the school.
While the chambermaid was at her work, a solitary lady, loitering about the
corridor of the second storey, was watching her over the bannisters.
As fast as he could run Astok entered the main
corridor that led to the tower chamber.
With the little strength which remained to me, I drew her up until our lips touched, and, then I whispered: "Good-bye!" I must have lost consciousness almost immediately, for I recall nothing more until I suddenly awoke out of a troubled sleep, during which I dreamed that I was drowning, to find the cave lighted by what appeared to be diffused daylight, and a tiny trickle of water running down the
corridor and forming a puddle in the little depression in which it chanced that Ajor and I lay.