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It amused him that at his age he should still fear the silent rebuke with which his uncle punished unpunctuality. He arrived at his destination as a near-by church clock struck the half-hour.
At the shore they bore the priest to their shelter while the guide was snatched into a near-by hut. They hacked off his brittle clothes and supported him to the bed. As he walked his feet clattered on the board floor like the sound of wooden shoes. They were white and solid, as were his hands. "He's badly frozen," whispered Captain, "can we save him?"
There was a murmur of wind in the tops of the trees and a stirring of linen-clad girls near the temple entrance voices droning from the near-by booths behind the shrubbery one flute, like the plaint of Orpheus summoning Eurydice a blossom- scented air and an enfolding mystery of silence.
Here we were to climb the near-by heights of Ostry, which the Hungarians of the Corps Hoffmann stormed in April when the snow was still on the ground, and "orientiren" ourselves a bit about this Carpathian fighting.
I tell you, Mudge, I'm goin' to win a hat off you." After leaving the office of Mudge, the promoter, J. Collins Prescott, sauntered into a secluded waiting room in a near-by hotel and sank into the depths of a huge leather chair. He took a voluminous type-written report from the pocket of his fashionable top-coat and fell to studying it with interest and care.
And Johnnie felt that he understood the sad quiet of this queer, tall person. In his case the stork had been indeed cruel. The hat was swinging from a near-by hook one of a double line of hooks down the long room. Under the hat was a sign. Johnnie read it; then centered his stare on the hat. At any moment he expected to witness something extraordinary.
The head had been split open, and the brain extracted therefrom; and to the appearance he had not been long dead not over three or four days, at most. Near-by the kettle stood a chair, and thereupon three legs of a bullock that had been shot down in the early part of winter, and snowed upon before it could be dressed.
One season a pair of them built a nest in a near-by grove; morning after morning, for many mornings, I used to see the two going to and from the nest, over my vineyard and currant patch and pear orchard, in quest of, or bringing material for, the structure.
He watched the men of his troop while with quip and song they made comfortable camp; he spoke a few brief words of instruction to the grave-faced first sergeant, and then strolled slowly up the valley, his own affairs soon completely forgotten in the beauty of near-by hills beneath the golden glory of the morning sun.
It somehow put him over into the class of enormously opulent things; and finding himself a little lonely on that new landscape, he cast about for some object of comparison. Thus his mind was led to the richest of all near-by objects. "If I were worth a hundred million," he said, with a satisfied twinkle in his eyes, "I would be as rich as the cathedral." A significant silence followed.
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