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The visit and inspection were as satisfactory as we hoped, and after a short rest and hasty lunch, we started on our return journey, which, as it would be in our old tracks, and for the most part downhill, would be very much easier than the previous one. It was well that our homeward journey was easier, or the trip would not have ended as satisfactorily as it did.
He hid his face behind the chair of Monkey, and his eyes were screened below the welcome shelter of Jimbo's shoulder. The talk meanwhile flowed round the horse-shoe like a river that curves downhill. Life ran past him, while he stood on the banks and watched. He reconstructed all that happened, all that was said and done, each little movement, every little glance of the eye.
Rosalie could have wept to see the downhill signs; but somehow, seeing them, did not weep; was not moved... rather, indeed... impatient. She had herself to think of. Youth's an excuse for youth as childhood's an excuse for childishness.
I cannot help thinking that it was best so. Of course, he was not a very old man, but he has for some years been a very feeble one, and now that Millicent and I have both given up our studies with him, I think that he would have felt that his work was done, and would have gone downhill very fast." "I think so, too," Mrs. Cunningham agreed.
"About ninety in the shade!" cried Snap. At the top of the hill they took another rest. Here there was a little breeze, for which they were thankful. "There is the lake!" cried Giant, pointing to a sheet of water below them. "One good thing, it will be easier going downhill than it was coming up." "I vote we go in for a good swim when we reach the lake," said Snap. "What do you say, Shep?"
Streams of dirty water poured from the roofs, and in the streets the miry snow sluiced slowly downhill or stuck on passing boot-heels in treacherous pads. A thaw is demoralising; its penetrative power strikes deeper than physical malaise. With the average man or woman it damps the spirits, unstrings the will, and slackens the mental and moral fibre until resistance of any kind becomes an effort.
He looked neither to the right nor the left, but his dilated eyes stared straight downhill to where the lamps were being lit, and the people were crowded in the street. And his ill-shaped mouth fell apart, and a glairy foam lay on his lips, and his breath came hoarse and noisy.
"It's terrible the way she's gone downhill the last three months. I never pass almost but I see her going in there or coming out." "No," said Watson, slowly, "no, it's bad. What I'd like to know," he added reflectively, "is where she gets the money from." "Oh, she had a legacy, hadn't she, in August? It seems to have been a curse. She has been a changed woman ever since."
"I put it on, dear child, to keep myself from freezing, and I am so pleased with it, for my bedclothes are not very thick," she answered. "But, grandmother," continued Heidi, "your bed is not right, because it goes downhill at your head instead of uphill."
The uphill and downhill of Devonshire scorns compromise or mitigation by détour and zigzag. But here geography is on a scale so far more vast, and the roadway is so far worse metalled than with us in England knotty masses of talc and nodes of sandstone cropping up at dangerous turnings that only Dante's words describe the journey:
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