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The town, he says, was divided lengthways by four streets and crossways by three. Plainly, therefore, it had a definite and rectangular street-planning, though the brevity of the historian does not enable us to decide how many house-blocks it had and how far the lesser streets were symmetrical with these seven principal thoroughfares.
I wanted directions to The Crossways; I had missed my way at some turning. In an instant they were vapour. Diana smiled. 'It was indeed a voice to startle delicate apparitions! So do roar Hyrcanean tigers. Pyramus and Thisbe slaying lions! One of your ghosts carried a loaf of bread, and dropped it in fright; one carried a pound of fresh butter for home consumption.
So he sets twelve men to it with large augers, to bore great holes into the side of the tree, to go almost through, but not quite through; which holes were bored without noise, and when they were done he filled them all with gunpowder, stopping strong plugs, bolted crossways, into the holes, and then boring a slanting hole, of a less size, down into the greater hole, all of which were filled with powder, and at once blown up.
"'Go on wid ye, corp'ril, sez she. 'You're a flirrt. "'On me sowl I'm not, sez I. "'Then you're a cruel handsome man, an' that's worse, sez she, heaving big sighs an' lookin' crossways. "'You know your own mind, sez I. "''Twud be better for me if I did not, she sez. "'There's a dale to be said on both sides av that, sez I, unthinkin'.
But if an old man has to give up his fishing trip, just to take two children to one of the wild animal shows, why I guess it will have to be done, that's all. But really I don't want to go," and he shook his head very seriously. "Oh, Uncle Tad!" cried Sue. "Don't you want to see the elephants?" "Nope," and the old soldier kept on shaking his head "crossways," as Bunny said.
'And then you would not dream of flight before it! 'No, she does not read me: no! She saw that I might come to The Crossways. She no one but myself can see the wisdom of my holding aloof, in contempt of this baseness. 'And of allowing her to sink under that which your presence would arrest. Her strength will not support it. 'Emma! Oh, cruel! Diana sprang up to give play to her limbs.
The recovered motor-car drew up before The Flowery Crossways with a flourish. The beaming chauffeur jumped down and went towards the hotel-keeper and the police sergeant. "It was my car all right!" he cried. "And I believed that never again should I set eyes on it!... When I think."... The chauffeur stopped short; the unresponsive hotel-keeper and the police sergeant were staring at him fixedly.
An immense waistcoat, the pattern of which was constantly being interrupted by the discordant figuring of a large variety of patches inserted upside down, or sideways, or crossways, as best suited hung nearly to his knees; and over this he wore a coat, the age and precise cut of which it would have puzzled the most learned in such things to decide upon.
'Nor I, dear; proving that the bar to it was the ceremony, said Diana. She promised to remain at Copsley three days. 'Then for the campaign in Mr. Redworth's metropolis. I wonder whether I may ask him to get me lodgings: a sitting-room and two bedrooms. The Crossways has a board up for letting.
'Nor I, dear; proving that the bar to it was the ceremony, said Diana. She promised to remain at Copsley three days. 'Then for the campaign in Mr. Redworth's metropolis. I wonder whether I may ask him to get me lodgings: a sitting-room and two bedrooms. The Crossways has a board up for letting.
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