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``It must be here,'' he said, slipping his arm through his father's with a movement from which Archer's shyness did not shrink; and they stood together looking up at the house.
It was a modern building, without distinctive character, but many-windowed, and pleasantly balconied up its wide cream-coloured front. On one of the upper balconies, which hung well above the rounded tops of the horse-chestnuts in the square, the awnings were still lowered, as though the sun had just left it.
``I wonder which floor -- ?'' Dallas conjectured; and moving toward the porte-cochère he put his head into the porter's lodge, and came back to say: ``The fifth. It must be the one with the awnings.''
Archer remained motionless, gazing at the upper windows as if the end of their pilgrimage had been attained.
``I say, you know, it's nearly six,'' his son at length reminded him.
The father glanced away at an empty bench under the trees.
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``I believe I'll sit there a moment,'' he said.
``Why -- aren't you well?'' his son exclaimed.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
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