The window frame which prevented anyone from sitting on the outer
sill was being forced out by two footmen, who were evidently flurried and intimidated by the directions and shouts of the gentlemen around.
Cocky had darted to the side, but, even as he darted, and as the cat landed on the
sill, the cat's paw flashed out sidewise and Cocky leaped straight up, beating the air with his wings so little used to flying.
Grasping the
sill I pulled myself up to a sitting posture without looking into the building, and gazed down at the baffled animal beneath me.
There was naught to keep me from that balcony now, and with a long, running leap I sprang far aloft until my hands grasped its lowest
sill.
"The students stood up on their stools and craned their heads forward to get a better view of me, and two little girls jumped upon the
sill of an open window where they could see more plainly.
Witness Harker went to the open window and leaned out across the
sill, faint and sick.
Here is the print of a foot in mould upon the
sill. And here is a circular muddy mark, and here again upon the floor, and here again by the table.
"The open window, the blood on the
sill, the queer card, the marks of boots in the corner, the gun!"
Of course I said fair and square at once what I had done, and why; then I showed the master the flies, some crushed and some crawling about helpless, and I showed him the wings on the window
sill. I never saw him so angry before; but as Bill was still howling and whining, like the coward that he was, he did not give him any more punishment of that kind, but set him up on a stool for the rest of the afternoon, and said that he should not go out to play for that week.
I left him, miserable enough, leaning on the
sill of my window, with his face hidden in his hands and Penelope peeping through the door, longing to comfort him.
The room was upon the second floor of the house, and opposite the window to which their attention had been attracted was a large tree, a branch of which spread to within a few feet of the
sill. Upon this branch now they both discovered the subject of their recent conversation, a tall, well-built boy, balancing with ease upon the bending limb and uttering loud shouts of glee as he noted the terrified expressions upon the faces of his audience.
And I remained kneeling; for now my face was on a level with the
sill; and when my eyes could see again, there stood my darling before them in the room.