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Now he wanted but immortality, he thought, to be the equal of gods, and the creature that could open so the gates of paradise must be his soon would be his for ever! He opened his eyes in time to see through the archway of creepers the bows of his brig come slowly into view, as the vessel drifted past on its way down the river.
Then with visible effort he advanced toward the hunks of flesh, casting back and forth as if to find some clue to the manner of their death. He was still so engaged when a second alien burst out of the archway, a splintered length of white held out before him as if he had made some important discovery. The officer grabbed that shaft away from him, turning it around in his hands.
The goddess of fortune sometimes blesses the persistent even before they begin to persist perhaps from sheer weariness at the remembrance of previous importuning. Victoria, on a brand-new and somewhat sensitive five-year-old, was coming out of the stone archway when Mr. An exhibition of horsemanship followed, on Victoria's part, which Mr. Crewe beheld with admiration.
He gave me the direction "and there by the roadside you'll find a sort of wooden archway with a sign over it ... you step in and follow the path, and that will take you right into the centre of the community. But what do want to go to Eden for? they're all a bunch of nuts there!" "Maybe I might be a nut, too!" The old man laughed. "Well, good-bye and good luck, sonny."
The rack and the rope, rather, are what would shake me to the roots, unless God His Grace prevailed more than it ever yet hath with see." He smiled again. Robin shook his head sharply. "As for me !" he said grimly, with tight lips. It was a lovely night of stars as the four stepped out of the archway before going upstairs to the parlour.
With this inquiry showing in his eyes he turned round and looked at Baron meditatively but unconsciously. Baron, understanding the look, said, "Oh, don't mind me. Read your letters. My business'll keep." Hagar nodded, was about to open the letter, but paused, went over to the archway and drew the curtains. Then he opened the letter.
There was the same furious confusion there; the tapestry was lying tumbled and rent on the floor the high oak mantelpiece was shattered, and doleful cracks and splinters in the panelling all round showed how mad the attack had been; one of the pillars of the further archway was broken clean off, and the brickwork showed behind; the pictures had been smashed and added to the heap of wrecked furniture and broken glass in the middle.
Opposite Poverty Corner there is, or used to be, an archway into a courtyard where in one old office the walls were hung with half-models of sailing ships. I remember the name of one, the Winefred. Deed-boxes stood on shelves, with the name of a ship on each.
The double gate under the archway was held back by iron stanchions. The two-storied house looked fairly large and comfortable. The front door stood wide open, giving the view of a neat, stiff little hall or living-room. An article of furniture caught his idle eye. He crossed the road in order to have a nearer view.
In the centre of the exterior barrier was the upper gate of the avenue, opening under an archway, battlemented on the top, and adorned with two large weather-beaten mutilated masses of upright stone, which, if the tradition of the hamlet could be trusted, had once represented, at least had been once designed to represent, two rampant Bears, the supporters of the family of Bradwardine.
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