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"Nothing intentional," he answered earnestly, "but it wouldn't be fair to your father if I gave you my version of a business conversation that passed between us, would it?" "Perhaps not," said Victoria. She sat down on the flagstone with her elbow on her knee and her chin in her hand, and looked at him thoughtfully.
In this space lay a large and heavy flagstone with a rusted iron ring in the centre to which a thick shepherd's-check muffler was attached. "'By Jove! cried my client. 'That's Brunton's muffler. I have seen it on him, and could swear to it. What has the villain been doing here?
"You don't need to worry with the trouble in that gold," he said with biting coldness, raising it at arm's length above his head. Then before any one was aware of his intention he flung it with all his force upon the flagstone at Joan's feet. Quickly he stooped and picked it up again, and again flung it down with all his strength.
Beyond the leaded panes some snowflakes were floating down upon the flagstone paths of the garden. Her gaze was attracted to some potted roses languishing in a corner. She recalled having read somewhere, "The color is in us, not in the rose."
I reckon you've never heeard tell o' Greenhow Hill, but yon bit o' bare stuff if there was nobbut a white road windin' is like ut; strangely like. Moors an' moors an' moors, wi' never a tree for shelter, an' gray houses wi' flagstone rooves, and pewits cryin', an' a windhover goin' to and fro just like these kites. And cold! A wind that cuts you like a knife.
In a word, even while we deny it, it is the face of God that reappears; and from beneath the flagstone one had believed to be sealed for ever comes once again the murmur of the very ancient flame of Hell.
The floor was covered with broad, smooth flags, one of which he attacked with the iron bar, raised the flagstone and turned it over; another easily followed, and very soon a space in the dry brown earth was exposed, large enough to make a grave. Bigot looked at him in a sort of dream. "I cannot do it, Cadet!
Powers, the sculptor, had promised to engage lodgings for us, but he had not expected us so soon, and meanwhile we put up at a hotel near by, and walked out a little in the long evening, admiring the broad, flagstone pavements and all the minor features which made Florence so unlike Rome.
"It's a good deal washed just here," said the man, "by the heavy rains." Presently the road became smoother and in a few minutes the carriage stopped. "I am trembling all over," said Miriam, "with thinking of being at home, and with not an idea of what it is like." In a moment they were standing on a broad flagstone. Although it was dark, they could see the outline of the house before them.
The sound was of the slow, cautious turning of a door upon its hinges! Without moving hand or foot, she just languidly lifted her eyelids, and looked around upon the dim darkness. There was a faint glow from the smouldering fire on the flagstone floor, and there was a faint light from the starlit night coming through the windows.
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