As I stand here , idly tapping tap the windowpane , and looking look out through the rain rain at the dirty back-yard and the coalboats below , fragments of an old story float float up before me , -- a story of this house into which I happened to come come to-day .

It was the tapping tap of a typewriter that he heard hear , and he listened listen to it with an air of benevolent approval approval .

He laughed laugh , then sighed sigh , and , sinking sink his chin into his hand and softly tapping tap his foot against the ground , fell into a reverie reverie .