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John supported the fainting lady with one arm, turning round upon his seat at the back. Old Strawberry wheeled quickly in her tracks and trotted down the avenue under the evident impression that she was going home. Mr. Juxon dashed across the ditch again to the place where Walter Goddard had fallen.
I even ventured to remind a man of it. 'I remember, he said, smiling, 'but we were young then. This thing, indicating an immense perspective of asphalted avenue that dipped under thirty railway tracks, 'only came up in the last ten years practically the last five. We've had to enlarge all those warehouses yonder by adding two or three stories to 'em, and we've hardly begun to go ahead yet.
Sitting by the table in the quiet little room, with Frau von Kerich a few yards away sewing by the light of the lamp Minna reading on the other side of the table, and no one talking, he looking through the half-open garden-door at the gravel of the avenue glistening under the moon, a soft murmur coming from the tops of the trees his heart would be so full of happiness that suddenly, for no reason, he would leap from his chair, throw himself at Frau von Kerich's feet, seize her hand, needle or no needle, cover it with kisses, press it to his lips, his cheeks, his eyes, and sob.
Were things so bad then? She questioned Judge Stott anxiously, fearfully. He reassured her. Both her mother and father were well. It was too long a trip for them to make, so he had volunteered. "Too long a trip," echoed Shirley puzzled. "This is not far from our house. Madison Avenue is no distance. That could not have kept father away." "You don't live on Madison Avenue any longer.
The moment he could be removed, he was bundled up in blankets and carried from the little house in Hancock Avenue to a larger one which his parents were to occupy for the rest of their lives in the neighboring Mount Vernon Street. The season was midwinter, January 10, 1842, and he never forgot his acute distress for want of air under his blankets, or the noises of moving furniture.
You don't suppose it's because I see every day the girls coming down to work, on the Massachusetts Avenue cars, do you? I went a little while ago to my doctor's because I thought perhaps there was something the matter with me, and he suggested a change of air, but I think he mixed up the cause with the effect.
"I trust," he said, "that in that case you will give us the pleasure of seeing something of you. We live in the Avenue de St. Cloud." "You are very kind," Duncombe said. "I shall not fail to come and see you." Spencer threw open the door, and they passed out. Phyllis kept by Duncombe's side. He felt her hand steal into his. "I want you to keep this envelope for me," she whispered.
Buscot, having pointed out the course he ought to pursue, bade him farewell. Hurrying across the court, he reached the south avenue, but had not proceeded far when it became evident, from the lights at the windows, as well as from the shouts and other noises proceeding from the court, that their flight was discovered.
On the other side of the street Beaton could see another officer sauntering up from the block below. Looking up and down the avenue, so silent of its horse-car bells, he saw a policeman at every corner. It was rather impressive. The strike made a good deal of talk in it he office of 'Every Other Week' that is, it made Fulkerson talk a good deal.
He met Suzette in the avenue, dressed for walking, and coming forward with the magnificent, haughty movement she had. As she caught sight of him, she started, and then almost ran toward him. "Oh! You!" she said, and she shrank back a little, and then put her hand impetuously out to him. He took it in his two, and bubbled out, "Are you walking somewhere? Are you well? Is your sister at home?
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