All this time, however, we are loitering faintheartedly on the threshold of our story.
After a moment's pause on the threshold, peering towards the window with her near-sighted scowl, as if frowning down some bitter enemy, she suddenly projected herself into the shop.
No sooner was he over the
threshold than Daddy Mathieu slammed the door after him and, turning towards us, with eyes bloodshot, and frothing at the mouth, he hissed to us, shaking his clenched fist at the door he had just shut on the man he evidently hated:
Then he went back to the threshold and sat down there, laying his well filled wallet at his feet.
The swineherd went back when he heard this, and Penelope said as she saw him cross the threshold, "Why do you not bring him here, Eumaeus?
Byles beheld this figure on the staircase, he shivered as with an ague, but continued to watch him steadfastly, until the gouty gentleman had reached the threshold, made a gesture of anguish and despair, and vanished into the outer gloom, whither the funeral music summoned him.
The martial shape again drew the cloak about his, features and passed on; but reaching the threshold, with his back towards the spectators, he was seen to stamp his foot and shake his clinched hands in the air.
Katharine pushed the door half open and stood upon the
threshold. The light lay in soft golden grains upon the deep obscurity of the hushed and sleeping household.
Upon the
threshold he took her cold fingers into his hand and kissed them reverently.
No sooner had they crossed the
threshold than they were seen by the awed observers outside to be acting in the most unaccountable way.
Two days afterwards they carried Matthew Cuthbert over his homestead
threshold and away from the fields he had tilled and the orchards he had loved and the trees he had planted; and then Avonlea settled back to its usual placidity and even at Green Gables affairs slipped into their old groove and work was done and duties fulfilled with regularity as before, although always with the aching sense of "loss in all familiar things." Anne, new to grief, thought it almost sad that it could be so--that they COULD go on in the old way without Matthew.
Fentolin glided on to the threshold. He was still dressed.
In a moment or two Doctor Sarson appeared on the threshold.
Grahame stood upon the
threshold. He looked beyond Lucille to Brott.
Hosts loved to detain the dry lawyer, when the light-hearted and loose-tongued had already their foot on the
threshold; they liked to sit a while in his unobtrusive company, practising for solitude, sobering their minds in the man's rich silence after the expense and strain of gaiety.
