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It was always raining there, and there was no diversion except the eternal promenade through the rue de Siam, or a bored stay in the cafés full of seamen and English and Portuguese land-officers. He went through the public establishments night and day; he made investigations in the hotels; he hired carriages in order to visit the more picturesque suburbs.
"Don't you know what that old book of mamma's says, 'When will Miss Rosamond's education be finished? She answered 'Never." Thekla gave a groan, whether of pity for Rosamond or for herself might be doubted; and a lop-eared rabbit was a favourable diversion.
I uttered a short answer, and drew a small wooden stool within a few feet of the Hermit's seat. After a brief silence he rose, placed wine, bread, and preserved fruits before me and bade me eat. I seemed to comply with his request, and the apparent diversion of my attention from himself somewhat relieved the embarrassment under which he evidently laboured.
"Queequeg," said I, "come along, you shall be my lawyer, executor, and legatee." It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more fond of that diversion. This was the fourth time in my nautical life that I had done the same thing.
A commando with two guns, under Steyn of Bethlehem, had arrived from Natal, and unobserved had seized a ridge between Stinkfontein and the Modder, which Hannay was about to cross; and although the Boer guns were silenced and the commando compelled to retire, the diversion seriously disarranged the scheme of assault.
It was such a favourite with dear papa, and he told me to take such care of it when he gave it to me, for there was a romantic little history connected with it." "What was it, dear?" asked Jessie, glad to find that the sudden diversion of her thoughts to the lost watch had done more to calm Ruth than all their demonstrative comfort.
Beyond sending a flying squadron up the river to destroy the enemy's boats and stores of provisions, nothing further could be done to effect a diversion in favor of General Burgoyne. Four days after Harold's arrival at Ticonderoga the news of the surrender of General Burgoyne reached the place.
Altogether the young man did not look the part he had that day been playing that of the rich young idler who drives a hundred and fifty miles in a powerful car, over the worst kind of roads, merely for the sake of diversion and a good luncheon. While he waited Richard considered the hall, at one end of which he sat in the shadow. There was something very homelike about this hall.
The diversion of water from the common basin of the great lakes through a new channel, in a direction opposite to their present discharge, would not be absolutely without influence on the St. The descent for the outlet of the canal at La Salle on the Illinois to the Mississippi is twenty-eight feet, the distance being 230 miles.
It was long since he had enjoyed such amusing conversation, and there was a certain novelty in not being feared. He repeated his first question, however, remembering that he had not come in search of diversion, but to gather information. "Who was the beautiful lady?" he asked. "She is Messer Angelo's daughter, is she not?"
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