Outside in the garden, with his figure outlined against the luminous square, there stood a man, his back to the road, his two hands upon the
window ledge, and his body rather bent as though he were trying to peep in past the blind.
At a wooden table in front of the
window, which normally looked out on this landscape, sat two men in plain clothes, but with something of a military bearing, for indeed they were the two chiefs of the detective service of that district.
Creeping on, they found that the next
window revealed two men in shirt-sleeves playing billiards with two young ladies.
I listened at the
window attentively before I ventured on taking my lantern out of my coatpocket.
She leaned forward and pressed her face against the
window just as the carriage gave a big jolt.
Grewgious, bolt upright as usual, sat taking his wine in the dusk at his open
window; his wineglass and decanter on the round table at his elbow; himself and his legs on the window-seat; only one hinge in his whole body, like a bootjack.
They ran to the
window, downstairs, and into the street.
It passed through the little invisible
window, through the walls.
Just as I was turning away wearily from the
window to go back to the bedroom and make a second attempt to complete the unfinished entry in my journal, I smelt the odour of tobacco-smoke stealing towards me on the heavy night air.
"Yes," said Monsieur de Marquet, "but what you have not guessed is that this single
window in the vestibule, though it has no iron bars, has solid iron blinds.
They inhabited two garrets; and where the roof of the one house joined that of the other, and the gutter ran along the extreme end of it, there was to each house a small
window: one needed only to step over the gutter to get from one
window to the other.
When I look out at the
window again she is gone, but I shall ring for her to-morrow at two sharp.