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The orchard-wall was low and could be scaled with relative facility; no danger threatened; there were neither prying neighbours nor dogs; the nearest house, a marbler's workshop, was more than three hundred metres distant.
"Nobody will ever understand what I mean about justice," muttered Hugh. "Suppose," said Firth, "while you are complaining of injustice in this way, somebody else should be complaining in the same way of your injustice." "Nobody can fairly," replied Hugh. "Do you see that poor fellow, skulking there under the orchard-wall?" "What, Holt?" "Yes, Holt.
He ran away from the laughing boys, and went quite to the opposite corner of the playground, where a good number of his schoolfellows were playing ball under the orchard-wall.
You'll not take no 'arm." Harriet now came running out, wringing her hands, and uttering hysterical exclamations. "Shut up, you fool," said Mrs. Davy. Doors opened all the way down the street, and a considerable crowd had soon collected. Beth, quite detached from herself, leant against the orchard-wall and watched the people with interest.
Thus, to say nothing of his Suppers on the Orchard-wall, and other phenomena of that earlier period, have many readers of these pages stumbled, in their twelfth year, on such reflections as the following?
On the coping of the Orchard-wall, which I could reach by climbing, or still more easily if Father Andreas would set up the pruning-ladder, my porringer was placed: there, many a sunset, have I, looking at the distant western Mountains, consumed, not without relish, my evening meal.
Phil was not quite easy, however: nor were the others who heard; and in a minute they looked round for Hugh. He was leaning his face upon his arms, against the orchard-wall; and when, with gentle force, they pulled him away, they saw that his face was bathed in tears. He sobbed out, "I took such pains with that theme, all the holidays! And I can't go for it myself."
Instead of yielding, Hugh made for the orchard-wall, scrambled up it, and stood for the moment out of the reach of his enemies. He kicked down such a quantity of snow upon any one who came near, that he held all at bay for some little time. At last, however, he had disposed of all the snow within his reach, and they were pelting him thickly with snow-balls.
"Nobody will ever understand what I mean about justice," muttered Hugh. "Suppose," said Firth, "while you are complaining of injustice in this way, somebody else should be complaining in the same way of your injustice." "Nobody can fairly," replied Hugh. "Do you see that poor fellow, skulking there under the orchard-wall?" "What, Holt?" "Yes, Holt.
The soldiers took a position on the slope of a hill a couple of hundred yards from the gate, and Barbarossa and I sheltered ourselves behind an orchard-wall, from which there was an uninterrupted view of the billowy tract of meadow and pasture land beneath, cut into patches by thick hedges.
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