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There was no sign-post to direct them, and the people in the inn had not told them which of the two roads to take. 'What's to be done now? said Rasmus. 'I think we had better have stayed at the inn. 'There's no harm done, said Niels. 'The night is warm, and we can wait here till morning. One of us will keep watch till midnight, and then waken the other.
As for War and Peace, the reader wanders about in it as in a forest, for days, lost, deprived of a sense of direction, and with no vestige of a sign-post; at intervals encountering mysterious faces whose identity he in vain tries to recall. On a much smaller scale Meredith committed the same error. Who could assert positively which of the sisters Fleming is the heroine of Rhoda Fleming?
For these ten years past I have been money out of pocket for him, spending my savings on him, and he knows it, and yet he will not let me lie down to sleep on a legacy! No, sir! he will not. He is obstinate, a regular mule he is. I have talked to him these ten days, and the cross-grained cur won't stir no more than a sign-post.
I passed over Pont y Rhanedd or the bridge of the Rhanedd, a small river flowing through a dale, then by Clas Hywel, a lofty mountain which appeared to have three heads. After walking for some miles I came to where the road divided into two. By a sign-post I saw that both led to Llandovery, one by Porth y Rhyd and the other by Llanwrda.
How trustfully it slept! Trees were hooded like extinguished candles. Flowers throughout the fields clasped their faces in their hands. Birds, like fluffy balls, drowsed on branches. Stars alone were wakeful. They stooped to watch him with intent, companionable glances. Now and then he had to halt to flash his torch on a sign-post or to consult his map.
Finally he came to a place where the road divided into two forks or branches, one leading to the right, the other to the left. "Which shall I take?" he asked himself. There seemed no choice so far as he could see. Neither was very promising, nor was there any sign-post to inform him of what he wished to know. "I wish somebody would come along," thought Jasper. But nobody did.
It was about three in the afternoon, and the sun already low in the south-west, when they came in sight of the cross-roads and Sir Harry pulled up his bays. And there, on the green by the sign-post, stood Mrs. Raymond. She caught Taffy in her arms and hugged him till he felt ashamed, and glanced around to see if the others were looking; but the phaeton was bowling away down the road.
"What are we going to do?" He looked at a sign-post, knocked crooked by the car when it plunged off the metal into the ditch. "This road leads from Oxshott London that way. With any luck we might get a lift." "Late for anything to be about." She looked back along the way they had come. The road could be seen threading its way among pines for a couple of miles or more.
The rain was coming on fast. All the east lay grey behind Steering, all the west grey before him as he moved away from the cross-roads. But out of the west rolled the melody of the carolling boy, the voice of one singing in the wilderness, young and undismayed. Under the cross-roads sign-post old Bernique sat his horse motionless for a time, looking after Steering.
A laugh came back on Jacques, who followed as hard as he could, and it gave him a feeling of awe. They were apart for a long time, then came together again, and rode for miles without a word. At last Belward, glancing at a sign-post before an inn door, exclaimed at the legend "The Whisk o' Barley," and drew rein. He regarded the place curiously for a minute. The landlord came out.
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