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Updated: May 1, 2025
The big exciting thing was that he had made a thrilling discovery in the midst of that insane panic. He was in love for the first time in life foolishly and madly in love. Fighting and elbowing his way through that throng of desperate terror-stricken men and horses it had come to him in a flash that life was sweet and precious because Betty Winter was in it.
The supper-table brought our party together, and they compared notes. "Parties are very confusing," philosophized Hope, "especially when waiters and partners dress so much alike. Just now I saw an ill-looking man elbowing his way up to Mrs. Meredith, and I thought he was bringing her something on a plate.
She tore along the narrow pavement: elbowing the passengers from side to side; and darting almost under the horses' heads, crossed crowded streets, where clusters of persons were eagerly watching their opportunity to do the like. 'The woman is mad! said the people, turning to look after her as she rushed away.
Society, however, not being tolerable where the smoothness of intercourse is disturbed by a perpetual punching of sides, the merits of the free citizen in them become their demerits when a fraternal circle is established, and they who have shown an example of civilization too notable in one sphere to call for eulogy, are often to be seen elbowing on the ragged edge of barbarism in the other.
Blom had not even noticed the decorations, and therefore he answered dryly: "Haven't you realised yet that I never make excursions? I hate elbowing my way through a crowd, and the noise of the children gets on my nerves." "But surely you won't stay in town on such a lovely day! You'll at least go to the Deer Park?"
And as though drawn by invisible chains he strayed far down into the ghetto. Soon he was elbowing his way through a maze of uproarious tenement streets as one who had been there many times. But he noticed little around him. He went on, as he had always gone, seeing and hearing this seething life only as a background to his own adventure. He reached his destination.
The gathering seemed to consist mainly of members of the lower classes, and the manner in which they were elbowing each other aside, laughing, talking, and gesticulating, showed that some announcement of rather uncommon interest and importance must be exposed to view. Our three friends hurried forward to join the group.
The words of Wullie and the gipsy slid into her mind "they go on strange roads" and she got a swift vision of herself in armour riding out gaily along a strange road with her knight beside her. Elbowing that out came something she had seen that had amazed her a few days ago.
His wife stared after him in amazement as he walked over to the canvas awning in front of the low dock building, actually elbowing his way through a group of natives. Presently he came back, twisting his left mustache. "The fellow in there says that the English agent is employed in the bank.
French prisoners Oldenburg bonnets "Fugio ut Fulgor" Soldiers of the Empire Paris A French hotel A walk through Paris Portrait of Madame de Staël An English ambassador The Louvre French tragedy The heights of Montmartre Cossacks in the Champs Elysées £900 for substitute Napoleon's legacies to his successor A dinner at the English Embassy Botany and mineralogy Party at Madame de Staëls A debate in the Corps Législatif Malmaison Elbowing the marshals St Cloud and Trianon The Catacombs.
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