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I think she looked into the carriage where I was, and I was going to ask her where she was taking him. 'Nonsense, Rose! How can you listen to such folly, Herbert? 'But that's not all! I saw them again under the gas when I got out. I was very near trying to speak to her, but I lost sight of her in the throng; but I saw that face so like Master Michael, only scared and just ready to cry.
True, even at the great harbour, news could scarcely be expected, for a chain stretching from the end of the Pharos to a cliff directly opposite in the Alveus Steganus, closed the narrow opening. But it could be raised if a state galley arrived with an important message, and this was expected by the throng on the shore.
He was so tired of seeing the same train, the same commuters, taking the same path across the station to the ferry-boat, being jostled by the same throng, going to the same office, performing the same, or practically the same, duties, that his very soul was irritated.
In front of the low buildings where the baths were, three by three, six for the women and three for the men, he perceived under the trees a long stretch of ground enclosed by a rope fastened to the tree-trunks; and here, various sufferers, some sitting in their bath-chairs and others lying on the mattresses of their litters, were drawn up in line, waiting to be bathed, whilst outside the rope, a huge, excited throng was ever pressing and surging.
But this was no ordinary occasion; and, as if to emphasize the fact, a great throng had assembled at Westminster even before the sun arose, on the day set apart for the beheading of the remaining three conspirators.
O gods!" groaned and cried the people, "take pity on the innocent." "Osiris!" cried Herhor from the terrace, "have compassion and show thy face to the unfortunate people." At that moment the darkness began to disappear, and the sun to regain its brightness. A new shout, new weeping, and new prayers were heard in the throng.
"There's no fire, or else we'd see some smoke," answered his chum. "But we'll see what it is. There's been some sort of an accident, that's sure." They broke into a run, pushing their way through the throng about the front doors of the hotel. As they entered the lobby, they were surprised to see the clerk point his finger at them, and exclaim: "There are the two lads now!"
The better classes took no share in this work, but among the busy throng, spite of the lateness of the hour, were children of all ages, carrying away in pots, jugs, and dishes-borrowed from their mothers' cooking utensils as much as they could.
They moved up the woodland path, their steps insensibly falling into the rhythm of its strains, and vanished from sight among the trees. Theron and Celia walked in silence for some minutes, until the noises of the throng they had left behind were lost.
"Now," he said equably, in the tone almost of a father, "What is it to-day, men?" The throng worked and put forward a spokesman, who looked from the Admiral to the clear north. "It is the star, sir! The needle no longer points to it! We thought you might explain to us unlearned What we think is that distance is going to widen and widen! What's to keep needle from swinging right south?