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Updated: June 20, 2025
First one foot would strike a hill, then the other would go down into a deep hole, and so on, while lamp-posts and buildings seemed to whirl past and round at a fearful pace. When nearing my quarters I heard a faint "hillo" from a by-street, and a continental mess-mate stumbled almost into my arms.
"And presently the Dervish and the Hakim spoke together, and then the Hakim led the way through a gloomy by-street, till he came to a habitation into which he entered, and the rest followed without a word.
At that time Gabriel came from Casterbridge Gaol, whither he had been to wish Boldwood good-bye, and turned down a by-street to avoid the town. When past the last house he heard a hammering, and lifting his bowed head he looked back for a moment. Over the chimneys he could see the upper part of the gaol entrance, rich and glowing in the afternoon sun, and some moving figures were there.
They left the respectable-looking street through which they were driving and turned into a narrow by-street and drove through a perfect labyrinth of narrow lanes and alleys, made hideous by dilapidated and dirty buildings and ragged and filthy people, until at last they reached a dark, dingy-looking inn, whose creaking sign bore in faded letters: "The Crown and Miter."
"Tell you what it is, Rodd," said Hartnoll, pulling up in a by-street and picking his words deliberately, "tell you what accounts for it," he waved a hand at the emptiness surrounding us. "It's the press. Very night for it; and the men all hiding within doors." "Nonsense," said I. "It's a deal likelier to be the Fat Woman or the Two-headed Calf."
George's smock was white, and George's waistcoat was red, and he had made himself smart enough, but he did not linger amongst his fellow- servants at the Cross. He hurried through the crowd, nodding sheepishly in answer to a shower of chaff and greetings, and made his way to the by-street where the Cheap Jack had a small dingy shop for the sale of coarse pottery.
It looked like a snare; and yet who could suppose a snare in such a quiet by-street and in a house of so prosperous and even noble an exterior? And yet snare or no snare, intentionally or unintentionally here he was, prettily trapped; and for the life of him he could see no way out of it again. The darkness began to weigh upon him.
The shock was so great as to completely check his career, while it sent the butcher back into his shop, over his own bench, and prostrated him on the carcase of a slaughtered ox which had been carried in just two minutes before, as if to form a bloody and congenial bed for its owner. Kenneth instantly started off again and doubled suddenly down a by-street which led to the colonel's residence.
I knew him from the days of my extreme youth, because he made my father's boots; inhabiting with his elder brother two little shops let into one, in a small by-street now no more, but then most fashionably placed in the West End.
If he's a fraud it is time the thing was stopped for Jean's sake." He looked much more like the old Heriot Walkingshaw than he had for some weeks. Then he smiled, though still with an exceedingly shrewd air. "Well," he concluded, "we'll see." There is a by-street which opens out of the King's Road, Chelsea, and for a short distance pursues a course as respectable as the early career of Mr.
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