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Run down to the small gate, that's a good girl you will overtake him easily, since he is walking round by the avenue and return it, with my compliments." Polly picked up her skirts and ran. A narrow path slanted down across the slope of the park to the nurseries a sheltered corner in which the Bayfield gardener grew his more delicate evergreens and here a small wicket-gate opened on the high road.
I can't abide being idle." "Social problems! And do you mean that you go among these diseased people and try to make them well?" She nodded. "I begin to understand," he said slowly, "why you said you thought I wasn't doing my work in the world. It's true. I've been sheltered from evil. Things have been made easy for me. And you" he burst forth admiringly "I think you're very wonderful.
The other men slunk away, for the minister had taken the bottle, and Tom Davis was following him through the narrow passages between the great piles of boards, towards his house. The boy had gone back to his block house; the pile of sawdust in the sheltered corner was more comfortable and not more cheerless than his own home. John left Davis at his door.
A keen north wind whistling through neighboring walnut tree tops, drove the dying leaves like frightened flocks before it, and ever and anon the ripened nuts pattered down, hiding themselves under the drift of yellow foliage, that had sheltered them in cool greenery during summer heats.
Fay Island, it is true, had escaped almost unscathed, doubtless owing to its sheltered situation; but on the main as the party had got into the way of designating the larger island thousands of trees were lying prostrate, many of them uprooted, and the rest snapped off close to the ground.
Its circular shape and vaulted ceiling, panelled in the hard woods of the island, had been planned by the man who stood in the centre. Many openings under the eaves gaped windowless; but the congregation, sheltered from a July sun, enjoyed freely the lake air, bringing fragrance from their own fields and gardens.
Trenire gave in, and they all set to work to find a house to suit her. But here they found a task which taxed all their time and patience. It had to be a small house, sheltered yet sunny, of a moderate rent, but in a good position; it must have, as well as a sitting-room, a room on the ground floor that Mrs.
It is quite possible that the French may be searching the villages round for wounded fugitives, and I would fain get him up among the hills. Sidi, too, has an ugly wound in the head, and needs a few days' rest. I think I have everything that they can want for the next two or three days, and you have a good supply of fruit. We must find some place among the rocks sheltered from the sun.
The driver cracked his whip three times, so that the old castle reëchoed, and a flock of startled rooks flew forth from every sheltered nook and careered wildly overhead with hoarse caws. Then the carriage rolled on through the long, dark gate-way.
As the boat drifted past the low rail of the vessel, now almost level with the water, which partly sheltered us from the full force of the wind and waves, I had the opportunity, when we glided under the stern, to read her name emblazoned thereon in large gilt letters. It was La Bella Catarina.
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