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Updated: May 3, 2025
The vestiges of this uncommon species of bridge still exist, and the author has often seen the foundations of the columns when drifting down the Tweed at night for the purpose of killing salmon by torch-light. Mr. John Mercer of Bridge-end recollects, that about fifty years ago the pillars were visible above water; and the late Mr.
To-day being Sunday, the women had no knitting; but it was observable that while Mrs Trebilcock, two doors away, led the chorus as usual, her hands moved as though plying imaginary needles: and so did the hands of Sarah Jane Johns over the way. Down by the bridge-end two men in uniform sat side by side on the low parapet, sorting out a small pile of blue papers.
'I have explained to the captain, yonder, that you are my prisoner. Which is your horse? the dark bay, I think. For they had captured mine as well as poor Hutson's, and a servant held the pair by the bridge-end. 'It is, madam. She motioned to the man to lead him forward. 'Now mount, she said; 'and follow me, if you please. You may keep your sword.
Her cottage contained only one other room, serving as shop and living room, and fronting on a narrow lane which turned abruptly from the main street at the bridge-end to follow the curve of the walls. By the time I returned with Mistress Waynflete she had shuttered the window of the shop, snuffed the candles, and stirred the fire into a blaze.
They lay close to the bridge-end, not parted locked tight in each other's arms, pallid face to face, her hair streaming over his breast! As though when that unearthly life the Dweller had set within them passed away, their own had come back for one fleeting instant and they had known each other, and clasped before kindly death had taken them. "Love is stronger than all things."
"Nay," she said, "it has been a long time since the morning, and they, and their fieriness which has so burned out, are now to me as a tale that hath been told. It is the living that I am going to, and I hope to do well by them." Came they then to the bridge-end and there was no man there, nought but the kine that were wandering about over the dewy grass of eventide.
A small girl came running down the street to the bridge-end. "Uncle Penberthy," she panted, "your tall son Mr. William said I was to run down and fetch 'ee home at once." "Nothin' wrong with 'en, I hope?" "I think he's going to hold a prayer."
"You were hardly gone from the place, your worship, when a youth came running and said it was your worship's will that the boy come to you straight, at the bridge-end on the Southwark side.
Some firing there was from Croats in the lower houses of the Village, and they had a cannon at the farther bridge-end; but they were glad to get away, and vanish in the night; muddy Weistritz singing hoarse adieu to their cannon and them. Prussian grenadiers plunged indignant into the houses; made short work of the musketries there.
On the whole, the Doctor decided faithful to his habit of looking questions in the face and so passing on that these things worked out pretty well as they were. His reflections carried him to the bridge-end, where, in the porch of the Old Doctor's house, he encountered Mrs Polsue. "Ah! Good morning, ma'am! We are bound for the same door, it appears?
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