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Ah, my brother!" thought she, as he disappeared into his room, "you need not desire to have their fearful weight upon you, or you will soon grow as anxious, thin, and pale as I am." The next day at noon Lizzie started on her journey, after a short conference with her father. Night had settled upon her native city, when she was driven through its straight and seemingly interminable thoroughfares.
There are few more interesting thoroughfares in the world than this avenue. Here ruler and ruled jostle each other; here thunder the liveried equipages of foreign nobles; here saunters the President, and nobody turns to look. Sooner or later all the famous of the world are tolerably sure to be met upon it: as we walk there History walks beside us and mighty shadows move before us.
He had trodden all the main-traveled thoroughfares and many of the side roads that are supposed to relieve the tedium of life. But none had sufficed. The reason was that he knew what was to be found at the end of every street. He knew from experience and logic almost precisely to what end each digression from routine must lead.
Yet Bill urged him onward with many an impatient oath, on past the ship-yards of Kensington, on, past the factories, and markets, and farmers' taverns, and shops of the Northern Liberties, on, through the crowded thoroughfares, and by the brilliant stores of the city, on, into the most degraded section of Southwark, in Plumb-street, where Bill said a friend of his lived.
By eight o’clock in the evening the military preparations were completed: a picket of infantry was stationed at every street corner; and, from that hour to the break of day, parties of dragoons swept the main thoroughfares, clashing and clattering over the paved road with a din that kept me awake all night.
It was nearly dark at the time, and it was evident that the rioters had been restrained by the new Dey, for their shouts were now heard in only two or three of the main thoroughfares. During his service as scribe to Achmet, Lucien had visited all parts of the town, and was familiar with its main outlines, if not with its details.
"What is it that surprises you so much?" "Why, to find such a steamer as this for the travel on one of the great thoroughfares between England and France. Let's go down on board." So Mr. George led the way, and Rollo followed down the plank. The plank landed them on the top of the paddle box. From that place, a few steps led to the deck.
He selected this particular one on account of its obscurity. From the vessel he had seen a stray party of Arabi's soldiery, and he had no fancy for running the risk of encountering them by taking one of the larger thoroughfares. How dark and quiet it seemed, not a sign of life was to be seen anywhere.
After passing along the crowded thoroughfares, where everybody was occupied with the riot, it was a relief to find myself turning into the obscure little street where he lived. "Here, at least, everything seems peaceful enough," I said, aloud, as I approached the house.
Ordinances, edicts, judgments and decrees fairly flew from his pen like sparks from an anvil. Nothing that needed setting aright was too inconsequential for a paternal order. An ordinance establishing a system of weights and measures for the colony rubs shoulders with another inhibiting the youngsters of Quebec from sleigh- riding down its hilly thoroughfares in icy weather.