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They were secured on either bank to heavy buttresses of stone. But as they were originally designed for nothing heavier than the foot-passenger and the llama, and, as they had something exceedingly fragile in their appearance, the Spaniards hesitated to venture on them with their horses.
More than once a heavy truck had crushed a heedless foot-passenger under that arch-way. Such indeed Paris remained in many districts and till long after. This circumstance may give some idea of the narrowness of the Saint-Jean gate and the ease with which it could be blocked.
The train came in; a car went whizzing by, a cyclist, then the first foot-passenger, at a great pace, breaking into a run. She saw that it was he, and, calling out his name, ran back into the shadow of the trees. He stopped dead in his tracks, then came rushing after her.
Therefore she heeded not the dangers of the London streets, but threaded her way along; and if at times she felt afraid of a crossing, or some hurried foot-passenger hustled her roughly, a sweet text, taught by her dearly-loved mother, came to her mind, bringing a feeling of safety along with it.
Here in Warsaw the Muscovite, the Pole, the Jew herding together in the same streets, under the same roof, obedient to one law, acknowledging one sovereign were watching each other, hating each other. At the street corners the smart, quiet police took note of each foot-passenger, every carriage, every stranger passing in a hired droschki.
My journey from Dantzic to Vienna would not furnish me with an interesting page, though my travels on foot thither would have afforded thrice as much as I have written, had I not been fearful of trifling with the reader's patience. In poverty one misfortune follows another. The foot-passenger sees the world, becomes acquainted with it, converses with men of every class.
A tin horn was attached by a light chain to each post, the ferry was formally delivered to Master Frank March, and it was declared open and ready for business. The rates of ferriage were fixed at twenty-five cents for a team, fifteen cents for a man on horseback, ten cents for a single animal, and five cents for a foot-passenger.
He could no longer doubt that he was in a house which was the resort of persons of the worst possible character, and in a position of the gravest danger. While opposite the window, he listened eagerly for some sound in the passage outside. If a foot-passenger should pass, he would risk everything and shout for help with all the force of his lungs.
Especially," he went on, "when the pleader is the nephew of an old colleague, one of the lights of the grand Council of State which gave France the Napoleonic Code." At a gesture from the chief magistrate of France under the Empire, the foot-passenger got into the carriage. "Where do you live?" asked the great man, before the footman who awaited his orders had closed the door.
She might once have had some pretensions to beauty; but her face was pinched and careworn, and there was a sharp, greedy look in the small eyes, whose colour was that neutral, undecided tint, that seems sometimes a pale yellowish brown, anon a blueish green. All day long the two women at Hilton House lived alone. No carriage approached the gates; no foot-passenger was seen to enter the grounds.
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