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On a pour ce passage, dit Brochard, deux voies différentes, la terre et la mer; et il conseille au roi de les employer toutes les deux
With half-shut eyes my Ego lay and pondered: the delicious meal it had just enjoyed; what was to come; the joys of being a great criminal ... then, being not at all inclined to sleep, I read Le Petit Parisien quite through, even to Les Voies Urinaires. Which reminded me and I woke up t-d and asked: "May I visit the vespasienne?" "Downstairs," he replied fuzzily, and readjusted his slumbers.
Twonette followed her example; then our small cavalcade passed out through the gate, and we entered on our long, hard race with the Duke of Burgundy. At dawn Yolanda called me to her side. "Our guide will conduct us to Cinq Voies on the Somme, eight leagues this side of Peronne," she said. "There we shall dismiss him. From Cinq Voies the road is straight to Peronne down the river.
We travelled rapidly, and near midnight of the second day out of Metz we reached Cinq Voies on the Somme. The village, consisting of a large inn, a church, a priest's house, and a farrier's shop, is situate at the meeting of five roads, from which the hamlet takes its name.
"At the Quatre Voies, fighting for your honour against a drove of northern oxen." "And whom hast thou brought with thee to help thee mend it?" "The fellow who knocked down the bos who gave it me, as deftly as any butcher." "Let us see him." "What name shall I give thee?" whispered Ralph. "Martin." "Martin of ?" "Martin from Kenilworth," said our bashful hero, blushing.
Toutain, Cités romaines de la Tunisie, p. 79 note: 'Ce qui toutefois est incontestable, c'est que cette disposition d'une régularité artificielle, autour de deux grandes voies exactement orientées et se coupant a angle droit, est très rare dans l'Afrique romaine.
But a many must have join'd in the chase: for presently the street behind me was thick with the clatter of footsteps and cries of "A thief a thief! Stop him!" At Quater Voies I turn'd again, and sped down toward St. Aldate's, thence to the left by Wild Boar Street, and into St. Mary's Lane. By this, the shouts had grown fainter, but were still following.
When we reached Cinq Voies on the Somme within eight leagues of Peronne we halted for supper, very tired and weary. While supper was preparing, we held a consultation, and determined to rest there for the night. I advised against this course, believing that the duke would pass that way on his road from Ghent to Peronne.
The town church of Saint Martin rose from a thickly-built group of houses, at a spot called Quatre Voies, where the principal streets crossed, which name we corrupt into Carfax. He counted the towers of thirteen churches, including the historic shrine of Saint Frideswide, which afterwards developed into the College of Christchurch, and later still furnished the Cathedral of the diocese.
At places the roads hugged the Somme, separated only by its width perhaps two hundred yards. These would be our danger points. I did not know them, and Yolanda's knowledge of the road was imperfect. Soon after leaving Cinq Voies, the road on the right bank the one taken by the duke gained a mile over the road on the left by cutting across a great bend in the river around which we had to travel.
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