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At Hadston Hogarth remained two months, the most occupied man anywhere, yet passing for a lounger in the townlet.
This reticence explained how, on our first visit, the two Staff-officers sent to prospect the diggings had been misdirected to a block lying north of the townlet, the "Red Hills," alias the Jebel el-Shegayg. Shortly after I left Egypt an Italian, Sig. F , returned to Suez from El-Muwaylah, with some fine pearls worth each from L20 to L30, and turquoises which appeared equally good.
Unless, indeed, the lottery ? And so, when Madame Dépine received a sister-in-law from Tonnerre, or Madame Valière's nephew came up by the excursion train from that same quiet and incongruously christened townlet, the Parisian personage would receive the visitor in the darkest corner of the salon, with her back to the light, and a big bonnet on her head an imposing figure repeated duskily in the gold mirrors.
In the townlet Eishishki, near Vilna, a tombstone set in 1171 was still in existence at the end of the last century, and Khelm, Government Kovno, has a synagogue to which tradition ascribes an age of eight hundred years. The Jewish population in all these communities was prosperous and respected.
I saw a beggar once in Holland in the townlet of Enkhuisen. Crowds were hurrying up from the side streets to have a look at him; the idea at first seemed to be that he was doing it for a bet. He turned out to be a Portuguese. They offered him work in the docks until he could get something better to do at wages equal in English money to about ten shillings a day.
By persistent private study, this native of a Russian out-of-the-way townlet managed to acquire a fair amount of general culture, which, with all its limitations, yielded a rich literary harvest. While the book was passing through the press in Vilna, Lithuanian fanatics threatened the author with severe reprisals. Their threats failed to intimidate him.
Peter's Day. June 29 is kept even at Funchal by water-excursions; it is homage enough to pay a penny and to go round the ships. We anchored and screamed abominably off Santa Cruz, the capital of its 'comarca. The townlet lies on the left of a large ravine, whose upper bed contains the Madre d'Agoa, or water-reservoir.
Thanks to the form of ground, the townlet is well laid out, with a gradual rake towards the bay. But there is no marine parade, and the remarkably uneven habitations crowd towards the water-front, like those of Eastern ports, thinning off and losing style inland. The best are placed to catch the 'Doctor, or sea-breeze: here, as at Zanzibar, the temperature out of the wind becomes unendurable.
The boy gave him as straight a look of judgment as he himself received. "Down there it is," with a nod of his head in the direction of the distant townlet. "And not up here?" "Dunno, they calls it the Great Road." The stranger still stood looking down at him fixedly. "Is your name James Christopher Hibbault?"
However, there the hotel stood immovable; and the cliffs, creeks, and headlands which were the primary attractions of the spot, rising in full view on the opposite side of the valley, were now but stern angular outlines, while the townlet in front was tinged over with a grimy dirtiness rather than the pearly gray that in summer lent such beauty to its appearance.
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