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Updated: September 22, 2025
Each one thought to himself, "I will enjoy and profit by the fruit of this friendship, I will yield up the blossoms only." The blossoms, alas! were artificial, without odor and already fading, though at the first glance they looked fresh and promising. The king awaited Voltaire with impatience, and now he heard the rolling of carriage-wheels, then the opening of doors, then the sound of voices.
And when the day arrived, she put all the house in trim order, dressed herself in her prettiest gown, sat patient while Maud brushed and curled her hair how white it had turned of late! and then waited, with a flush on her cheek like that of a young girl waiting for her lover for the sound of carriage-wheels.
She shut her eyes and bowed curtly to our salute. 'You have seen the last of me, madam, my father said to her whirling carriage-wheels. He tried to shake, and strained in his ponderous garments. Temple gazed abashed. I knew not how to act. My father kept lifting his knees on the spot as if practising a walk. The tent was in its old place covering the bronze horse.
"Robin, your tie is atrocious," he continued, picking up the Times and opening it slowly; "you had better change it." Robin was prevented from answering by the sound of carriage-wheels on the drive.
When at last she heard the carriage-wheels her heart leaped and she turned pale. Then she dared not look at her father. Suppose Martin should not have been successful. The eyes of all the family except Carroll himself, who was talking about the tariff and politely supporting the government against a hot-headed rebellion on the part of the ex-army officer, were on him.
Here sits the beggar, sick and pinched with cold; and there goes a man of no better flesh and blood, and no more authentic charter of soul, wrapped in comfort, and actually bloated with luxury. There issues the whine of distress, beside the glittering carriage-wheels.
I looked round in helpless bewilderment, at the shimmering Serpentine, and the white houses in Park Lane gleaming out of a lilac haze, at the cocoa-coloured Row, and the flash of distant carriage-wheels in the sunlight: all looked as usual and yet, there was I on the back of a horse which had just inquired 'whether I thought I could ride'!
"We will not mention him, if you please, my dear." At this moment, Guy must have heard the carriage-wheels and guessed Miss Silver was going, for he appeared at the parlour door. He found his mother toying with Miss Silver's hand; Edwin standing by, proud and glad, with his arm clasped round Louise. He did not remove it.
The sun shone down upon the fields covered with yellow grain. Far in the distance carriage-wheels softly slipped along the road. There was a torpor in the air not a bird's cry, not an insect's hum. Gorju cut himself a switch and scraped off the bark. Madame Castillon did not raise her head again.
It was full and murmurous. The lights were bright in the shop windows, and the scuffling of footsteps, more audible than during the day, when it is drowned by the roar of carriage-wheels upon the pavement, had a friendly, social sound. "Broadway is never so pleasant as in the early evening," said Mr.
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