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Nor did any sounds reach or disturb them for hours. Not one of the sleepers stirred enough to know that the sky gradually became overcast and that there was a distant rumbling of thunder. Hardly had the campfire burned down into the general blackness of the night when an automobile runabout, moving slowly and silently, stole along the roadway. In it sat the son of Squire Ripley.
'The least work and the most money, however, is a maxim not confined to the agricultural labourer. Recently I had occasion to pass through a busy London street in the West-end where the macadam of the roadway was being picked up by some score of men, and, being full of the subject of labour, I watched the process.
He pointed with his whip to a white object which lay in the roadway close beside the wheels of the cart. She had not dropped her handkerchief she knew that it was at that moment tightly clenched in her left hand, but she understood. "Thank you," she called, and hurried toward him.
Some bees had found late sweetness along the overgrown roadway. The air was still and sweet with the scent of sun-drying herbs. A lagging sail was on old Powhatan. About us on every hand lay the historic soil of Fleur de Hundred.
One bright warm afternoon in October two years later, Brick Willock sat smoking his pipe before the open door of his dugout, taking advantage of the mountain-shadow that had just reached that spot. In repose, he always sat, when in the cove, with his face toward the natural roadway leading over the flat hill-island into the farther reach of the horseshoe.
I was beginning to move more rapidly along the little path, well worn by many rubber tires, which edged the broad roadway, when I perceived the doctor's daughter standing at the gate of her father's front yard.
There was that young feller there too him we've just had here standing quiet by a pillar-box, reading a letter. One foot he had in the roadway, and his back to the 'bus. Up comes old Jack, pushing his horses, and sees the boy. Gives a great howl like a tom-cat. 'Hi! you young frog-spawn, he says, 'out of my road, and startled the lad.
Eastward a sullen retreating cloud backed the luminous haze thrown up from hundreds of street-lamps and shop-windows a haze that faintly silhouetted the clustered roofs. The roofs were wet. The roadway, narrowing as it descended the hill, shone with recent rain. 'You may carry down my bag, said the colonel. 'I will walk. Somewhere to the right here should be a road leading to Westgate, eh?
As they came out upon an old roadway the captain stripped off his coat and Neil thrust himself into it as they ran. Even in these first minutes of their flight Nathaniel was thrilled by another thought than that of the peril behind them. Whom had he saved?
The bridge, which, as it was well known, was to be destroyed within a very few days, was adorned with triumphal arches, and decked with trees and flowering plants; its roadway was strewed with branches; and the palisades, parapets, and forts, were garnished with wreaths, emblems, and poetical inscriptions in honour of the Prince.
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