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The night was very soft and mild. He would go out and walk the gray flags of the terrace, till this unworthy restlessness gave place to reason and calm. Passing along the narrow passage, he opened the door on to the garden-hall. And there paused. The hall itself, and the inner side of the carven arches of the arcade were in dense shadow.
"Dear me, what a very shabby vestibule," I said. "Not near so handsome as mine at Victoria Terrace quite decries the house. Oh, young man," I went on, pretending to see Tom for the first time, "this house is to be sold, I hear? Its appearance is not what I'm accustomed to, but I may as well give a look round, as I'm here." And so I went on, finding fault with the dining-room, drawing-room, &c.
She ought to have been there to share his pang and his pleasure; they had so long enjoyed everything together that without her he felt unable to get out of either emotion all there was in it. The forgotten boy stole silently down the terraces after the rest of the party who had left him behind with March. At the last terrace they stopped and waited; and after a delay that began to be long to Mrs.
I passed through another archway, and stopped at a terrace belonging to a ruined château or country-house. Here I was looking at the valley of the Lot in the warm after-glow of sunset, when an elderly gentleman came up to me and disturbed my contemplative mood by asking me not very courteously if I wanted to see anybody.
"A poor thing, but mine own." "Thaay stwuns, thaay stwuns, thaay stwuns, thaay stwuns." T. HUGHES, Scouring of the White Horse. Magdalen Prescott stood on her own little terrace.
Armitstead: "In one of the London newspapers there was a plan, a rough sketchmap of the passage in which the murder took place. I gathered from it that on each side of that passage there are yards or gardens, at the backs of houses the houses on one side belong to some terrace; on the other to the square Markendale Square in which Ashton lived.
Alice's home was a terrace house in a town. The House at B was very large and somewhat lonely. It is, however, less than 200 yards from a road along the Tay, that river running parallel to its front to the southward of it.
Angus looked from the end of Noirmont Terrace straight down to the sands and saw in the distance the sunset air filled with wheeling gulls, a group of boys playing football on the wide level, and somewhat nearer, a slender girl of fourteen, dressed in black, with long fair hair floating over her shoulders.
I have noticed them frequently clustering about her in private conferences, or walking up and down the garden terrace under my window, listening to some long and dolorous story of her afflictions; of which I could now and then distinguish the ever-recurring phrases, "says he," and "says she."
"That's how you came to be wandering on old Wayne's terrace, just in the nick of time. What stumps me is the promptness with which you thought of stowing me away." "It wasn't promptness, exactly. As a matter of fact, I had worked the whole thing out beforehand." His eyebrows went up incredulously. "For me?" "No, not for you; for anybody.
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