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"By no means," said Forrester, "that path leads to the Lower Ford; here is the shivered beech, which the colonel described to me." "Yes, sir," said Telie, hurriedly; "it is the mark; they call it the Crooked Finger-post." "And a crooked road it is like to lead us, if we follow it," said Roland. "It leads to the Lower Ford, and is not therefore our road. I remember the Colonel's direction."
It appears to me, looking back over a past experience, that certain days in one's life stand out prominently as landmarks, when we arrive at some finger-post pointing out the road that we should follow. We come out of some deep, rutty lane, where the hedgerows obscure the prospect, and where the footsteps of some unknown passenger have left tracks in the moist red clay.
"Straight on till you come to a finger-post that seems to point back to the station, but doesn't; take that road, sir the Priory lane, it's called until you come to a swing gate, leading into a field; cross that, keeping the footpath to the left, mind you, till you see a stile; get over that, go through the lodge gates right opposite though it isn't a lodge now, and there ain't no gates, only posts and up an avenue, where all the trees have been cut down, and there you are.
We were within a hundred paces of the top and the finger-post. She cried out wildly that she did not understand. 'What is it you you have just said? she murmured. 'I cannot hear. And she began to fumble with the ribbon of her mask. 'Only this, Mademoiselle, I answered gently. 'I give your brother back his word, his parole. From this moment he is free to go whither he pleases.
And at the parting of the ways was a finger-post with the words: "To LONDON. To TONBRIDGE WELLS. To PEMBRY." Now as I stood beneath the finger-post, debating which road I should take, I was aware of the sound of wheels, and, glancing about, saw a carrier's cart approaching.
That boy, my good sir, would break his neck with pleasure, and deprive his parents of their chief comfort and between ourselves, when you come to see him at hare and hounds, taking the fence and ditch by the finger-post, and sliding down the face of the little quarry, you'll never forget it. It's beautiful!
His subtle mind had been challenged by a finger-post of doubt in the written evidence; a finger-post so faint as to be passed unnoticed by other eyes, but sufficiently warning to his clearer vision to cause him to pause midway in the broad track of circumstantial evidence and look around him for a concealed path.
In Othello, on the other hand, the most modern of all his plays, Shakespeare had recourse neither to outward boding, nor to inward foreboding, but planted a plain finger-post in the soil of human nature, when he made Brabantio say "Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see: She has deceived her father, and may thee." Mr.
Maggie Corbett was a finger-post, and more, for a finger-post merely points the way with its wooden finger, and then, figuratively, retires from the scene to let you think it over; but Maggie Corbett continued to take an interest in the case until it was decided to her entire satisfaction.
We had by this time arrived at the remains of an old finger-post, which my host had formerly pointed out as a landmark. Here, a ruinous wooden bridge, supported by long posts resembling crutches, served me to get across the water, while my new friend sought a ford a good way higher up, for the stream was considerably swelled.
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