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Reaching the wall that enclosed the right side of the park, she opened a wicket that led into a narrow path through a large field of ripe corn. She passed into this path, followed in single file by Mademoiselle Marie and by Camors.
In reality, though Monte Carlo is bad enough in its way do I not pay it unwilling tribute myself twice a year out of the narrow resources of The Garret, Grub Street? it is but a skin-deep surface symptom of a profound disease which attacks the heart and core in London and Paris. Compared with Panama, Argentines, British South Africans, and Liberators, Monte Carlo is a mole on the left ankle.
And then, once more, darkness settled down, and the boys began to breathe more easily. They had had a narrow escape, and their journey was not half over, to say nothing of the return trip if they lived to make it. "Come on!" Blake cautiously whispered again. "And bear off to the right. The fire wasn't so heavy from there. Maybe we can find a gap to get through."
He says their pride and narrow notions poisoned yes, that is the word poisoned her mind against him; and that was the reason he insisted on my being brought up here, and kept from you all. 'But I don't understand why he let you come straight home to us, and live in Dynevor Terrace?
And all this while my mother had not opened her mouth, and my father had scarcely been heard. That is the way my fate was sealed. It gives me a shudder of wonder to think what a narrow escape I had; I came so near not being born at all.
Preparations for his reception. He is received by Bridgewater lads. Narrow escape of Philip. His wife and child captured. The Saconets continue the pursuit. Treachery of the Indians. The reconnoitering parties. Description by Captain Church. Captain Church's adventures. Capture of prisoners. The captives make merry in the pound.
Her offer was cheerfully accepted by Sommers, and they were soon chatting pleasantly on their way through the fields. Arriving at the strip of woods, they walked along the narrow path and Sadie designated to him the place where the body had been found. Very different now was the scene presented.
He paused, and simultaneously with her disappearance he realized that he was not the only one who had found his way to the narrow street to see the last of Berenice. A man was standing upon the opposite pavement a little way from the carriage, yet at such an angle that a faint, yellow light shone upon what was visible of his pale face.
There was a time when I was a very narrow provincial, but happily the circumstances of my life made it necessary that I should go to a very distant part of the country, and I early found out what a very limited acquaintance I had with the United States, found out that the only thing that would give me any sense at all in discussing the affairs of the United States was to know as many parts of the United States as possible.
The neck, or narrow passage-way between the Charles and Mystic Rivers, was only about one hundred and thirty yards across and exposed to that terrible cannonade; yet over it flew the reckless rider, coat off, in shirt-sleeves, an old white hat on his head; back and forth he rode, fearless and unscathed.
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