Scarcely venturing to whisper, but substituting dumb show for words, Fagin, and the young Jew who had admitted them, pointed out the pane of glass to Noah, and signed to him to climb up and observe the person in the
adjoining room.
She asked the man to go through the folding-doors into the
adjoining room.
Notwithstanding he loved them very much, and went into the
adjoining room where they slept to take a look at them and make sure that they were resting comfortably.
He moved nearer and was about to lay his hand upon her arm, when his sister entered from an
adjoining room, looked him full in the face, passed him without a sign of recognition and left the room by a door that was partly behind him.
As he paused I heard in an
adjoining room known to me as his "machine- shop," which no one but himself was permitted to enter, a singular thumping sound, as of some one pounding upon a table with an open hand.
Sola motioned me to be seated upon a pile of silks near the center of the room, and, turning, made a peculiar hissing sound, as though signaling to someone in an
adjoining room. In response to her call I obtained my first sight of a new Martian wonder.
Instead of going straight into the
adjoining room, where her desk was, she lingered, slightly irresolute, in the outer office.
`Not at all, I assure you.' -- `But where will you manage to stow me?' -- `In the chamber overhead.' -- `Surely that is where you yourselves sleep?' -- `Never mind that; we have a second bed in the
adjoining room.' Caderousse stared at his wife with much astonishment.
'Curse those hounds!' said the invalid, turning his head impatiently towards the
adjoining room; 'will nothing stop their infernal throats?'
It was not closed, however, it still remained ajar; but by engaging the housekeeper in incessant conversation, she hoped to make it practicable for him to chuse his own subject in the
adjoining room. For ten minutes she could hear nothing but herself.
Sullenly enough, the jackal loosened his dress, went into an
adjoining room, and came back with a large jug of cold water, a basin, and a towel or two.
It's too long a story to tell over greasy plates.' And ringing the bell in passing, he led the way into the
adjoining room.