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Ralph turned to the sergeant and stretching his arms, with the natural air of a tired boy, objecting to be disturbed said: "Now, sir, I am ready to start. I suppose there is no occasion for us both to go, for my brother has hurt his foot. We shouldn't have come in, tonight; but it is his first time out with the woodmen, and he is not accustomed to sleeping out, in the wet." "Yes, one is enough.
The Strand had ceased to be a country-road then, and regarded itself as a street, but by a strained construction; for, though there was a tolerably compact row of houses on one side of it, there were only some scattered great buildings on the other, these being palaces of rich nobles, with ample and beautiful grounds stretching to the river grounds that are now closely packed with grim acres of brick and stone.
Erasmus felt and acknowledged the imprudence of his interference, but hoped it might be forgiven in favour of the motive and he looked so honestly glad to hear that his information was all wrong, that old Panton at the moment believed in his integrity, and said, stretching out his hand towards him, "Well, well, no harm done then it's all as it should be, and we may ring for dinner But," recurring again to his favourite idea, "you'll get the wig, doctor?"
'When I opened the church-door to come out, said the little man, with an expression of face which bore ample testimony to the sincerity of his conviction, 'when I opened the church-door to come out, which I did suddenly, for I wanted to get it shut again before another gust of wind came up, there crossed me so close, that by stretching out my finger I could have touched it something in the likeness of a man.
However that may be, it is certain that we found it stretching in front of us, broad, black, and forbidding, full twenty feet from bank to bank, with the cap of the ill-fated sergeant just visible in the centre as a mute warning to all who might attempt to ford it. 'There must be a passage somewhere, cried Saxon furiously. 'Every moment is worth a troop of horse to them. Where is my Lord Grey?
I had never scaled a mountain before, and the ferns and heath, the pure boisterous air, and above all the magnificent view of the rich country we were leaving behind, now gorgeous and misty in sunset tints, stretching in gentle undulations far beneath us, quite enchanted me. We had just reached the summit when the sun went down.
As well as I could, for the mist in my eyes was blinding me, I watched the steamer until she slid behind the headland of the bay, round, the revolving light that stands on the point of it stretching my neck through the window of the car, while the fresh wind from the sea smote my hot face and the salt air licked my parched lips.
For one thing I did not know where the place of the quemadero was; and I do not yet know where those Protestant churches are. If I went again to Seville I should try to visit them but, as it was, we gave our second day to the Alcazar, which is merely the first in the series of palaces and gardens once stretching from the flank of the cathedral to the Tower of Gold beside the Guadalquivir.
The wealth brought from the East, owing to the discoveries of the Portuguese, aroused him to emulation. He had found a strong current setting westward, through the Caribbean Sea, between the coasts of Paria on the south and Cuba on the north, the latter, as he believed, being a part of the Asiatic continent stretching onwards in the same direction.
So, from sheer idleness he had become a mining king, a lord of the mountains; he had thought of a site for huts and machine sheds, and it had become a kingdom, stretching right down to the sea. In Sweden, the first little patch of land had passed from hand to hand, and Geissler had taken care to keep himself informed as to its fate.
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