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George and Rollo went up to it to go in. They were met at the door by another commissioner, who offered his services to show them the church. Mr. George declined this offer, and went in.
If the water is only a few hundred fathoms deep," continued the captain, "we can sound; but if it is much deeper than that, it is very difficult to get the lead down." "Why, I should think," said Rollo, "that the lead would go down to the bottom of itself, no matter how deep the water was." "It would," said the captain, "were it not for the line.
At such places Vittorio would stop, usually at a post house at the foot of the ascent, and take an additional horse, or pair of horses, and sometimes a yoke of oxen, to help his team draw the carriage up the hill. Many of these ascents were four or live miles long, and as the road turned upon itself in continual zigzags, there was presented to Mr. George and Rollo, and also to Mrs.
It is your duty, therefore, to obey him in all things, and to comply with all his wishes, just as you would if I were in his place." "Yes, father," said Rollo, "I will." "Besides being your duty," added Mr. Holiday, "it is greatly for your interest to do so.
"O Rollo," said James, "I don't believe you will." "Yes I shall," said Rollo: "you see the parachute is expanded, and so brings down a great deal of air with it, and this makes it come very slowly. Air is a real thing, James, and it keeps the parachute back a great deal."
And when there's lots and lots of grand company just gone, Miss Hazel will come walking up stairs 'most like one step at a time. There's no flying up and down in the house now, sir. And if you could only once see her eyes, Mr. Rollo! And you know how she used to sing every five minutes? well, she don't do that, said Phoebe, with closing emphasis.
When we get through all the fine scenery, which we shall do at Mayence,-we can then go up to Strasbourg, and take the railroad there for Paris the same way that we came." "Yes," said Rollo, "I shall like that." Rollo liked it simply because it would make the journey longer.
He dug down a few inches, and then took up a hoe full of the earth, and held it out to Rollo to try it with his fingers, that he might feel how hot it was. Rollo put his fingers upon the earth, but he could not hold them there an instant. It seemed to Mrs.
Rollo and Copley had a very pleasant walk along the Corso. They were obliged, however, to walk in the middle of the street, for the sidewalks were so narrow and so irregular in shape, sometimes growing narrower and narrower, until at length there was scarcely any thing but the curb-stone left, that Rollo and Copley could not walk upon them.
There is no doubt, however, that the keen, unsophisticated vigor of Rollo, directed by his new religion, did great good in Normandy, and that his justice was sharp, his discipline impartial, so that of him is told the famous old story bestowed upon other just princes, that a gold bracelet was left for three years untouched upon a tree in a forest.
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