He stood keeping hold of the
hall porter's belt, and gazing into his face.
Within the
hall all was gladness, but without on the lone moorland there stalked a grim monster, named Grendel, whose dark heart was filled with anger and hate.
Judge Scott did not know all things, and he did not know that he was party to a police conspiracy, that the evidence was hatched and perjured, that Jim
Hall was guiltless of the crime charged.
The officer in command at Market Burnham
Hall would be obliged if Captain Granet would favour him with an immediate interview, with reference to the events of last night.
The guests had all filed through The
Hall of Chiefs; the doors at both ends had been closed.
Hall was leading Billy up what seemed a perpendicular wall in order to gain the backbone of the rock.
I was a boy in my teens at the time of my father's death and had never seen the
Hall, for he lived in a little cottage on the South Coast.
I'll introduce him, Anna, just as soon as we get to the
hall.
It was no easy matter on that day, to force one's way into that grand
hall, although it was then reputed to be the largest covered enclosure in the world (it is true that Sauval had not yet measured the grand
hall of the Château of Montargis).
a sudden cry resounded through the
halls and the whole throng hurried to the entrance.
Shutters were up along almost the whole line of the house; the great
hall-door was unbarred after much ringing of the bell; an individual in ribbons was seen flitting up the black oak stair, as Horrocks at length admitted the heir of Queen's Crawley and his bride into the
halls of their fathers.
There was a flash of the great sword as the outlaw swung it to the full of his mighty strength through an arc that passed above the shoulders of Peter of Colfax, and the grinning head rolled upon the floor, while the loathsome carcass, that had been a baron of England, sunk in a disheveled heap among the rushes of the great
hall of the castle of Leybourn.
