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The women of the household grew anxious Priscilla went to the door many times, looking up the tortuous by-road for the first glimpse of the expected returning vehicle and Innocent stood in the garden near the porch, as watchful as a sentinel and as silent.
And then, as they rounded an acute bend at the steepest point of the grade, Amaryllis saw below her, just beyond the bridge of grey stone from which their road began its ascent to the moor, a single ancient oak-tree, from the twisted trunk of which was stretched out across the by-road which followed the course of the bridged stream, that cruel, heavy arm, upon which in one day were hanged fifteen of Sir Thomas Wyatt's rebels in days popularly supposed merrier than ours.
I always have it hauled down at sunset," and he began walking briskly again. In another three minutes they had crossed a narrow by-road, and were passing up the ancient drive that led to the Castle gates.
The redcoats from Fort George about four hundred men of the 41st regiment, together with a part of the 49th, which had already been in action were about to march by a by-road apparently away from the scene of action. "Hello!" said Zenas to young Ensign Norton, of the 41st regiment, who was a frequent visitor at his father's house. "I don't understand this.
Ferdinand, therefore, taking the advantage of his companion's absence for the Tyrolese had walked abroad to view the town found means to hire a peasant, who undertook to conduct him through a by-road as far as Chalons, and with his guide he accordingly set out on horseback, after having discharged the bill, left a blank paper sealed up in form of a letter, directed to his friend, and secured behind his own saddle a pair of leathern bags, in which his jewels and cash were usually contained.
Side by side they went on, crossing the pastoral glebe-lands, where the kine still drowsily reclined under the bowery shade of glinting chestnut leaves; and diving thence into a narrow lane or by-road, winding deep between lofty banks all tangled with convolvulus and wild-rose and honeysuckle.
This gentleman had ordered the driver to go as fast as he could to Shorncliffe station; but on reaching the station, it appeared the gentleman was too late for the train he wanted to go by, for he came back to the fly, limping awful, and told the man to drive to Maningsly. The driver explained to Mr. Carter that Maningsly was a little village three miles from Shorncliffe, on a by-road.
A by-road not much travelled led to the grave-yard, and led off from it over the broken country, following the ups and downs of the ground to a long distance away, without a moving thing upon it in sight near or far. No sound of stirring and active humanity. Nothing to touch the perfect repose. But every lesson of the place could be heard more distinctly amid that silence of all other voices.
Indeed the road had been against us for many days before the day on which I left the wagon; and I as wagon conductor was to blame for the choice of it. I should have yielded myself patiently to go the mighty round that the main roads went. I had come almost due east at a venture, and when I had lost my first stake by being disappointed of the by-road I sought, I went on gambler-fashion.
"Be a man, Phil, and bear your own share," said Mr Shaw; "and no spite, because your words come back to you!" The talk at the palings still went on, as the gig rolled quietly in the sandy by-road. "Prater!" poor Hugh exclaimed. "What a name!" "Yes; that is you," said his uncle. "You know now what your nick-name will be.
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