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About halfway a halt was made for dinner, but I had none. Although I was cold and hungry the bargees' hospitality did not include a share of their bread and cheese but they gave me a drink of their beer. The tunnel is two miles long, and was drippingly wet.
The scouts slackened their pace. Something was ahead of them. "Turn to the right," said the lieutenant; "it is the Ronfi wood; the chateau is more to the left." Presently the command "Halt" was passed along. The detachment stopped and waited for the lieutenant, who, accompanied by only ten men, had undertaken a reconnoitering expedition to the chateau. They advanced, creeping under the trees.
The command HALT is given when the leading unit has advanced the desired distance in the new direction; it halts; its leader then commands: RIGHT DRESS.
To the healthy, walking is a pleasure; to the sick, a burden, if not an impossibility. How many Christians there are to whom, like the maimed and the halt and the lame and the impotent, movement and progress in God's way is indeed an effort and a weariness. Christ comes to say, and with the word He gives the power, Rise and walk. Just think of this walk to which He restores and empowers us.
It slid softly along the carpeting before coming to a halt a few inches from the glass wall. It made no noise or jarring of the floor, but the sudden shifting of weight in the room caused the tower to sway once more, as it had when I had run up the stairs to the couch.
They had mistaken the road and gone a mile or two out of the way, and one of the men had been thrown off and twisted his ankle, and made another halt and delay. She drew the curtains closely and lay down without undressing. Before she slept she put her hand into her breast, and felt the rustle of the thin paper on which Vardri's letter had been written.
How often did she say to herself, Oh that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest! in the shelter of that dear mother's arms whom she now pined for with a painful yearning of the heart that might well be called home sickness. But in spite of anxious wishes, the little party were compelled to halt for the night some few miles above the lake.
A confusion of words took place; greetings on one hand, and partings on the other, for James Thorndale was going on by the train, and made only a few minutes' halt in which to assure Mrs. Henley that though the landing and the journey had knocked up his patient to-day, he was much better since leaving Corfu, and to beg Philip to write as soon as possible.
John whipped the more formidable of the two weapons from his back pocket and pointed it at the breast of the intruder. "Halt!" Brown obeyed. "Who goes there?" The formula had been borrowed from a thrilling Civil War story. "Friend," came the prompt reply. "Advance, friend, and give the countersign." Red opened his mouth doubtfully, then hesitated. "Hurry up." "I've forgotten it."
He brought the boys to a sharp halt at sight of them, and came forward to meet them, saluting gravely. "Are you in trouble?" he asked, with his quiet smile and a glance at the stalled machine. "May I help?" "Oh, would you?" cried Betty, her pretty forehead puckered. "We do want to get back before the storm breaks."
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