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"And there are cages of wild animals and birds too," added Birger, "polar bears and owls and eagles and reindeer " "That is what I want to see, the reindeer," interrupted Erik; so when the steamer reached the quay at the Deer Park, the children went at once to find the Laplander's tent in Skansen.
To such a height had it been necessary to carry the quay walls designed to protect the city from floods, for the river bed has been rising for centuries past that the old terrace of the Boccanera gardens, with its double flight of steps to which pleasure boats had once been moored, now lay in a hollow, threatened with annihilation whenever the works should be finished.
As she left the castle, and went towards the quay where the boat lay, Roland Graeme, anxious to communicate with her if possible, threw himself in her way, and might have succeeded in exchanging a few words with her, as she was guarded only by the dejected Chamberlain and his halberdiers, but she seemed to have taken, in its most strict and literal acceptation, the command to be silent which she had received from the Queen; for, to the repeated signs of her grandson, she only replied by laying her finger on her lip.
Like a sleep-walker, she staggered along the quay and went over the long bridge. He feared she would throw herself in the water, so strangely did she behave. On the bridge she stood gazing across at the ship, with a frozen look on her face. Pelle stood still; turned to ice by the thought that she might see him. He could not have borne to speak to her just then much less look into her eyes.
The gateway on Seraglio Point was illuminated, as well as the quay in front of the mosque of Tophaneh, all the cannons of the battery being covered with lamps. The commonest objects shared in the splendor, even a large lever used for hoisting goods being hung with lanterns from top to bottom.
Turnbull by the collar. "Keep still," he cried, sharply, as the farmer tried to clutch him; "keep still or I'll let you go." "Help!" choked the farmer, gazing up at the little knot of people which had collected on the quay. A stout fisherman who had not run for thirty years came along the edge of the quay at a shambling trot, with a coil of rope over his arm.
When it arrives at the end of the quay, which was bedecked as for a holiday, the furtive little shadow pauses at the steps leading down to the bank. Almost immediately there are shouts and excitement all along the quay: "Quick a boat grappling-irons!" Boatmen and policemen come running from all sides. A boat puts off from the shore with a lantern in the bow.
A square tower the Clock Tower, or Tour de l'Horloge, whence the signal was given for the massacre of Saint-Bartholomew a tower almost as tall as that of Saint-Jacques de la Boucherie, shows where the Palais de Justice stands, and forms the corner of the quay. These four towers and these walls are shrouded in the black winding sheet which, in Paris, falls on every facade to the north.
He used to go ashore every night to foregather in some hotel's parlour with his crony, the mate of the barque Cicero, lying on the other side of the Circular Quay. Late at night I would hear from afar their stumbling footsteps and their voices raised in endless argument. The mate of the Cicero was seeing his friend on board.
Taffy flung an arm about one and checked his way quietly, as a man brings a boat alongside a quay. He hoisted Joey first upon the stanchion, then up the tilted deck to the gap of the main hatchway. Within this, with their feet on the steps and their chests leaning on the side panel of the companion, they rested and took breath. "Cold, sonny?" The child burst into tears.
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