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I soon comforted myself, however, by reflecting that such is the will of Heaven, and that Heaven is good. After we had descended the avenue some way John Jones began to look about him, and getting on the bank on the left side disappeared. We went on, and in a little time saw him again beckoning to us some way farther down, but still on the bank.
The day was one of the loveliest of spring. The brightest of suns swept the Avenue. In Madison Square the fresh green had burst from the trees overnight, and I should have liked to drop down on one of the benches there, to look upward through the branches into the clouds and forget the enclosing wall of buildings and the tumultuous streets. But I was late, and I had no mind to hurry on such a day.
They were walking towards Fourth Avenue one evening the priest could not resist the impulse to accompany her a little way towards her home after a day of unusual labor and anxiety. "You are working too hard," he said, gently; "you look fatigued." "Oh no," she replied, looking up cheerfully; "I'm a regular machine. I get run down, and then I wind up. I get tired, and then I get rested.
My own opinion is that Johnston will be compelled to hang to his railroad, the only possible avenue of supply to his army, estimated at from forty-five to sixty thousand men. At Lafayette all our armies will be together, and if Johnston stands at Dalton we must attack him in position.
We proceeded down the avenue: "Where is Mr. Dawson?" said I to Thornton. "Oh, within!" answered Thornton. "Shall I fetch him?" "Do," was my brief reply. Thornton was absent some minutes; when he re-appeared, Dawson was following him. "Poor fellow," said he to me in a low tone "he was so shocked by the sight, that he is still all in a panic; besides, as you will see, he is half drunk still."
It was set back several hundred yards from the road, and an avenue of magnificent maples each one a great green temple led up to the comfortable, rose-draped porch which sheltered the door.
These five, as they sat there that June evening, knew what your wife and your sister and your mother would wear on Fifth Avenue or Michigan Avenue next October. On their shrewd, unerring judgment rested the success or failure of many hundreds of feminine garments.
Paolo still lay very sick in his cabin, and we determined in common charity to take no action until he had his health again; but we set the men to keep a watch about the place, and for ourselves went off to dine at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
I came out into that first gasolineless, dreamlike Sunday we had during the war. A single, forlorn, drooping fifty-dollar horse, which I could have had for a few minutes perhaps for a hundred dollars, greeted me. I mocked the driver a little, and walked on, feeling irreverent about human nature. I went over and stood and looked up Madison Avenue and looked down Madison Avenue.
The dignified word "avenue" had been conferred on many alleys. A commission worked diligently and efficiently. One set of numbered streets was eliminated. The names of men who had figured in the history of the city were given to streets bearing their initials.
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