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And hereabouts its tufts of chestnuts should be, or were wont to be of old. I am in the grimy quarter of Belleville. Scene of factories, of steam-works and tall bleak mansions as it is to-day, Belleville was once a jolly country village, separated on its hilltop from Paris, which basked at its feet like a city millionaire sprawling before the check apron and leather shoes of a rustic beauty.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again, says he, 'an' the more you run around the better it'll be for your figure, an' the more you'll thank me, he winds up, 'when we march together into Berlin. So now you understand how welcome you dropped in. . . . 'Tis a terribly hilly country hereabouts."
He made close inquiries as to the lie of the land hereabouts, and I pointed out that there was a field-path leading plainly to the village from the other side of the bridge and coming out at an obscure stile at the back of the "Barley Mow." The spy might have taken that and become alarmed. She could then avoid the village by another plain path, and so get ahead of the troops on the Stafford road.
My name, guv'-nor well-known hereabouts is Zachary Spurge!" "You sent me that note last night?" asked Copplestone, taking a seat and filling his pipe. "How did you get it there unseen?" "Got a cousin as is odd-job man at the 'Admiral's Arms," replied Spurge. "He slipped it in for me. You may ha' seen him there, guv'nor chap with one eye, and queer-looking, but to be trusted.
Earthen tile is frequently used; also, to a limited extent, brick, stone, and wood; twice I have found canvas all these, however, are inferior, and should never be accepted or specified. The writer believes that at the present time, hereabouts, lead and iron are more used for wastes than any other materials, and are found the most satisfactory on the whole.
I have pretty nigh resigned my gun to him; for I find I cannot trudge about as briskly as formerly." Our ramble took us on the hills commanding an extensive prospect. "Now," said Scott, "I have brought you, like the pilgrim in the Pilgrim's Progress, to the top of the Delectable Mountains, that I may show you all the goodly regions hereabouts.
Here be caves and caverns enow to hide an army, and rocky passage-ways, narrow and winding i' the dark, where we four might hold all Black Ivo's powers at bay from now till Gabriel's trump an we had food enow!" Quoth Beltane: "'Tis a fair thought that, and I've heard there be many outlaws in the woods hereabouts?" "Yea, forsooth. And each and every a clapper-claw, a rogue in faith.
Our people have dug a well, which the Tanelkums promise to call "Bir Engleez," the English Well. Good water was found easily, near the surface at this station. 4th. We started late, and made only a short day; but herbage for the camels is only found hereabouts. Our course was, as usual, south-west over an undulating plateau, with an horizon now near, now distant.
For the rest, we find the whole trend of the Bible, its doctrinal tone, antagonistic to those ideals of equanimity and moderation which, however disregarded in practice, have always been held up hereabouts as theoretically desirable. In short, we Southerners lack what you possess: an elective affinity with that book.
Fyles had no more difficulty in fooling the guileless Bill than O'Brien had. "Going home?" Bill inquired of the officer as the latter turned to his horse. "Sure." "Me, too." Fyles leaped into the saddle. McBain, too, had mounted. "Best hurry," said Fyles, with another quick glance at the sky. "We get sharpish storms hereabouts in summer. You'll be drowned else. So long." Bill moved away.
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