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Updated: May 25, 2025
She kissed his forehead, and took her place at the head of the table, where the candles lit her gentle face and her brown eyes filled now, with a sudden brimming tenderness. The town ran, in its lower part, to the grimy water-front, where there was ever a noise of the unloading of ships, the shouts of teamsters, and the clatter of dray-horses' big hoofs on bare cobblestones.
She was leaning against one of the huge stone lions which crouch in front of the church, listening to Mr. Perry. If ever a pure soul looked into the world it was through those limpid eyes! The Platz was nearly empty. One or two men in blouses clattered across the cobblestones and going into the dark church dropped on their knees.
A great key hanging over the entrance announced the fact that there was a locksmith's workshop inside. The courtyard was very low and narrow, and roughly paved with cobblestones, between which the grass sprouted luxuriantly. At the further end of this court stood the "Hinterhaus," likewise two-storied, on the ground floor of which the locksmith carried on his resounding trade.
How still it was! At first she started at every sound: the barely audible opening and shutting of a pew door by some careful hand; the grating of wheels on the cobblestones outside as a carriage was driven to the entrance; the love-calls of sparrows building in the climbing oak around the Gothic windows. Soon, however, her ear became sealed to all outward disturbance.
THE VERSAILLES OF LONG AGO. It was to Versailles that the Grand Roi repaired after his stern chase of the Spaniards across Flanders; through the wood of Saint Germain and over those awful cobblestones which Parisians know so well to-day rolled the gilded carrosse of the king. He had already been announced by a runner who had also brought news of the latest victory.
Part of the way the surface had been cobblestones; now it was broken flints. We started out gallantly enough with full packs, very full packs. Then, a few miles out, one would see out of the corner of his eye, a shirt sail quietly across the hedge-row; an extra pair of boots in the other direction; another shirt, a bundle of writing paper; more shirts, more boots. Packs were lightening.
She walked back at last in despair over the wet cobblestones of the empty market square; but as she came near the house, she saw that the square was not quite empty. A horse stood blowing and steaming before Dr. Carrington's door, and her own maid and Kate were standing hatless in the doorway looking up and down the street. Isabel's heart began to beat, and she walked quicker.
"Are those white things cobblestones, or what?" continued Putnam perversely, indicating the border which quaintly encircled the little mound. "As I live," he exclaimed, "they are door-knobs!" and he poked one of them out of the ground with the end of his cane. "Stop!" she cried vehemently: "how can you do that?" He dropped his cane and looked at her in wonder. She burst into tears and turned away.
We heard the dwindling roar of the wheels upon the cobblestones until they died away in the distance. It seemed one of the longest quarters of an hour that I had ever known before the first stroke of nine boomed from the parish clock.
So each person has ownership of all and only all the water he can use within his plant, and the people claim there are no disputes between owners of houses as they look at it, each owner of a salt house has an equal chance to gather salt. The ground space of the salt house is closely paved with cobblestones from 4 to 6 inches in diameter.
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