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But it may not come for a week; and so I hope we shall have time to get the roof mended first." "Does it look like a storm to-night?" said Rollo. "No, not much," replied Jonas. "It is a little hazy in the south-west. However, if it looks like a storm in the morning, you need not go, unless you choose; though I shall." "I wish you'd wait till the storm is over," said Rollo.
The whole cavalcade moved on so rapidly, that, before Rollo had had scarcely time to look at it, it had passed entirely by. "The emperor!" said Alfred to Rollo. "He is going out to take a ride." "Is that the emperor?" exclaimed Rollo. "He looks like any common man. But if I had four such beautiful black horses as he has got, I should be glad.
George, his uncle looked them over carefully; and, when he found that the stamp of the police was duly affixed to them both, knowing, as he did, that those would not be put on till all the others were right, he said, "Well, Rollo, you've done it, I declare. I did not think you were so much of a man." George. The manner in which Rollo became acquainted with him is related in Rollo in Paris.
So he made a bargain with them, and they built him several. "Do you know how many?" asked Mr. George. "Not exactly," replied Rollo. "There were several small vessels, and I remember that there were four frigates, and each frigate had four guns. I don't suppose the guns were very large." "Four guns is a very small armament for a frigate," said Mr. George. "Yes," replied Rollo, "very small indeed.
Rollo was very much pleased indeed with this proposal. He decided instantly what he would do. He had seen that morning an affix, as the French call it, that is, a placard posted on a wall among a hundred others, setting forth that there was to be a balloon ascension that afternoon at the Hippodrome, at three o'clock, to be followed by various equestrian performances.
"Sometimes the path becomes narrower and narrower," continued Mr. George, "until it is finally lost among the rocks, and you have to clamber around the point of some rocky cliff a thousand feet in the air, with scarcely any thing but the jagged roughness of the rocks to cling to." "Yes, sir," said Rollo, eagerly. "Yes, sir. Let's go there. That's just the kind of road I want to go in."
"What is that famous for?" asked Rollo. "It is an ancient church, on the top of a high hill," said Mr. George, "where there is a flight of stairs made to imitate those that Jesus ascended at Jerusalem, when he went to Pilate's judgment hall. Nobody is allowed to go up or down these stairs except on their knees. "Then, besides," continued Mr.
There was a sort of track in the sand down the slope, and in this track the young men, half walking, half sliding, descended. "Why, uncle George!" exclaimed Rollo, "they are going down into the crater. Let Josie and me go too." Mr.
Then there is something about his wife and children, far away in Dacia, his native land, where he had been captured in fighting to protect them, and brought to Rome to fight and die in the Coliseum, to make amusement for the Roman populace." "I wish you could remember the lines themselves," said Rollo. George. So saying, Mr.
It was a pretty long, but yet a very light ladder; and Rollo and Nathan succeeded, after some difficulty, in getting it down, and in running the end out of the window. When the lower end reached the ground, the upper end was two or three feet above the bottom of the window; so that Rollo could easily get upon it to descend.
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