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A stranger, seeing them, might have thought that they were wont to walk thus, so unmoved were their faces. They had trudged the better part of two miles when they came upon the horse tethered by the reins to one of two gate-pillars, which stood gateless beside the road. Colonel John got to his saddle, and they trotted on.
Two lofty columns, like gate-pillars, supporting horizontally two cross-beams, the lower and lighter beam having its ends fitted into the columns a little distance below their summits; the uppermost and larger beam supported upon the tops of the columns, and projecting well beyond them to right and left.
He was about to acknowledge the driver's last insolence, when his eye it was growing dusk caught a figure sitting by one of the white plaster gate-pillars in the long sweep of wall. 'Stop! he cried. 'Stay here. I do not go to the school at once. 'But what is to pay me for this coming and re-coming? said the driver petulantly. 'Is the boy mad? Last time it was a dancing-girl.
Like all men who know but little of legal matters, he was frightened by this unforeseen struggle. During their interview, several times, the figure of a man posted in the street had come forward from behind one of the gate-pillars, watching for Derville to depart, and he now accosted the lawyer.
The alcoholic pub; the village green; the Baptist chapel; the church; the sexton's shed; the Rectory whence the so-wonderful letters had come; Sir Thomas's park gate-pillars still violently declaring 'The Earth is flat, were as mean, as average, as ordinary as the photograph of a room where a murder has been committed.
The balconies and gate-pillars are draped in scented masses of the beautiful wistaria, which in Italy produces its long pendant bunches of purple flowers before putting forth its bronze-coloured leaves.
'And not quite so much of your airs and graces, Madam, Midmore returned, 'or I won't let you use our drive as a short cut any more. 'Oh, I'll be good. I'll be good. Her voice changed suddenly. 'I swear I'll try to be good, dear. I'm not much of a thing at the best. What made you.... 'I'm worse worse! Miles and oceans worse. But what does it matter now? They halted beside the gate-pillars.
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