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On the opposite side of a green from the house were the farm-house and buildings; and the green sloped down to the water, where there was a wharf and an ancient-looking storehouse. There were some old boats and long sticks of timber lying on the shore; and I saw a flock of white geese march solemnly up toward the barns. From the open green I could see that a road went up the hill beyond.
Here were arranged the cabinets which Mr. George had been to see that morning. Passing this place, the carriage gradually ascended a long hill, on the summit of which, half concealed by groves of trees, was an ancient-looking church. Mr. George had seen this hill before from the windows of the hotel, and knew it must be the Kreitzberg. "He is taking us to the Kreitzberg," said Mr. George.
'Perhaps so; I never thought of that. Solomon looked a little graver as he finished his dinner, and glanced from time to time at the boy's bright face. After a moment's groping here and there, he presently returned with a very ancient-looking bottle, covered with dust and dirt. 'Why, Uncle Sol! said the boy, 'what are you about? that's the wonderful Madeira! there's only one more bottle!
Most children remember seeing and adoring an angel before they were a dozen years old. It's true, it's true, said the old gentleman. He took hold of a steel watch-chain, which carried a large, square gold key at one end and was supposed to have some kind of time-keeper at the other. With some trouble he dragged up an ancient-looking, thick, silver, bull's-eye watch.
And now came the great surprise of the evening, the disclosure of a secret which Gaston and Bertha had carefully guarded. Bertha, in her clingingly affectionate way, knelt down beside Madeleine, and laid in her lap two ancient-looking jewel-cases, her bridal gift to Madeleine. How Madeleine started and trembled at the sight!
Then he took down an ancient-looking broad-bladed dagger, with a complex aspect about it, as if it had some kind of mechanism connected with it. "Take care!" said the Doctor; "there is a trick to that dagger." He took it and touched a spring. The dagger split suddenly into three blades, as when one separates the forefinger and the ring-finger from the middle one.
An ancient-looking organ, of Gothic pattern, and formerly used in a Blackburn chapel, is placed within an archway in the eastern gallery. It is a moderately fair instrument, and is decently played, but it is not good enough for the place, and it is quite time to sell it to some other chapel, and get a better.
The abbey stands out in its loneliness as of yore, and beyond it are the black-looking, precipitous cliffs ending at Saltwick Nab. Lythe Church, standing in its wind-swept graveyard full of blackened tombstones, need not keep us, for, although its much-modernized exterior is simple and ancient-looking, the interior is devoid of any interest.
Blake," she said, "and I shall expect my son's friend to make himself perfectly at home." I thanked her heartily, for I began to feel a little strange. We entered the drawing-room together, where I found a number of people had gathered. They were mostly young, although I saw one or two ancient-looking dames, who, I supposed, had come to take care of their daughters.
"Set here a minute," said Mr. Geary, and he left Marjorie on a bench, which stood outside, against the building. After a time he returned, with an ancient-looking vehicle, known as a Rockaway, and a patient, long-suffering horse. "Git in back," he said, and Marjorie climbed in, too tired and sad to care much whither she might be taken. They jogged along at a fair pace, but Mr.
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