#climbing through windows

[liketheysay]

“But as he returned to his bed a little noise sounded, a noise so intimate that it might have arisen inside his own body. He seemed to crackle and burn and saw the ladder’s top quivering against the moonlit air. The head and the shoulders of a man rose up, paused, a gun was leant against the window sill very carefully, and someone he scarcely knew moved towards him and knelt beside him and whispered, “Sir, was you calling out for me?... Sir, I know.... I know,” and touched him” (Maurice, Ch. 37, E.M. Forster).

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[liketheysay]

“As he alighted his name had been called out of dreams. The violence went out of his heart, and a purity that he had never imagined dwelt there instead. His friend had called him. He stood for a moment entranced, then the new emotion found him words, and laying his hand very gently upon the pillows he answered, “Clive!”’ (Maurice, Ch. 11, E.M. Forster).

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[peoniespearlspromises]

Boy: ... why are you climbing in my window?

Doctor: 'Cause if I were climbing out of your window, I'd be going the wrong direction. Pay attention!