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Updated: June 20, 2025
By the time they alighted there, it was quite dark; and, proceeding by the dead wall in front of the Veterinary Hospital, they entered a small by-street, which is, or was at that time, called Little College Street, and which, whatever it may be now, was in those days a desolate place enough, surrounded by little else than fields and ditches.
And he could not tell the Marchesino the truth of his shadowy colloquy in a by-street with the old creature from behind the shutter. "You have made a mistake about me," he said. "But it is of no consequence. Look! There is another goose coming." He pointed with his cane in the direction of the chatterers near the kiosk. "It is papa! It is papa!" "Pardon! I did not recognize "
My destination was in a by-street in a mean, rickety building; "The Franklin H. Dodge Steam Printing Company" appeared upon its front, and in characters of greater freshness, so as to suggest recent conversion, the watch-cry, "White Labour Only." In the office, in a dusty pen, Jim sat alone before a table.
His face, which had fallen a little, assuming that wearied expression a woman ought most to dread on the face she cares for, brightened considerably. "Come on, lass!" he exclaimed, "business first, and pleasure arter. Speak up, and let's hear all about it." They had turned from the main thoroughfare into a dark and quiet by-street.
The stranger made a close scrutiny of Yule's face, and asked certain questions with reference to his visual sensations. 'I hardly like to propose it, he said at length, 'but if you were willing to accompany me to a very poor room that I have not far from here, I could make the examination formally. 'I will go with you. They turned away from the stall, and the ex-surgeon led into a by-street.
At nightfall you would see him rise with difficulty and, supporting himself on his cane, make his way to a narrow little by-street to enter a grimy building over the door of which may be seen in large red letters: FUMADERO PUBLICO DE ANFION. This is that Capitan Tiago who was so celebrated, but who is now completely forgotten, even by the very senior sacristan himself.
The offices of the Bank of England, to which this young adventurer now so nonchalantly directed his course, were then not housed in any such stately edifice as that which now covers the heart of the financial world, nor did the location of the young and struggling institution, in a by-street of the great city, tend to give dignity to a concern which still lacked importance and assuredness.
They were in a by-street, very lean and lonely itself, but so close to a crowded thoroughfare that they could see the vague masses of vehicles going by, and could even see an individual hansom cab passing the corner at the instant. Turnbull put his fingers to his mouth like a gutter-snipe and whistled twice.
"No; he was discovered in the cellar of a house in the little by-street of Sureau. Robbers had laid in wait for him in the darkness of night, and cast him bound into a subterranean cave, in order to obtain a heavy ransom. The agents of the bailiff discovered him and liberated him unharmed. If God has so decreed, why may not the same have happened to the Signor Geronimo? You are silent, Mary.
From there to the colonnade where the Chinese Quarter began was a distance of half a by-street, and Coryndon slid along, apologetically close to the wall. He avoided the policeman in his blue coat and high khaki turban, and his manner was generally inoffensive and harmless as he sneaked into the low entrance of Leh Shin's lesser curio shop.
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