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Updated: May 24, 2025
The motor stops. This is a Headquarters, and a staff officer comes out to greet us a boy in looks, but a D.S.O. all the same! His small car precedes us as a guide, and we keep up with him as best we may. These are mining villages we are passing through, and on the horizon are some of those pyramidal slag-heaps the Fosses which have seen some of the fiercest fighting of the war.
A portion of them, it may be, encircled villages or towns. In some cases the ditches or fosses were on the inside, in others on the outside. But no one can fully explain why they were made. Combinations of the square and circle are common in these ancient works, and the figures are always perfect.
Hunt come that you seemed to be having such a good time with?" "Yes, he'll come. He'll come to-morrow, I shouldn't wonder. Then that thinnish fellow with the hair like a hearth-brush did you meet him? Mr. Fane, a great friend of the Fosses. He's coming to take us sight-seeing." She yawned a wide, audible yawn. "I only hope there'll be some fun in it. Confound you, Hat, go to bed!"
But alone with him at midnight in the shadow near the bottom of the Rue des Fosses, with no witnesses, with every reason to feel friendly towards him, what was I to do? As a fact, I did nothing. I stood, silent and stupefied, waiting to hear more. He did not keep me long. "She is my wife's sister," he continued grimly. "But I have no reason to shield her on that account! Shield her?
"It is I who am at the head of the hotel," he replied, proudly pointing out the dimensions of the place by spreading his hands. "My old establishment has sunk into the fosses of the fort: it was a transaction between the government and myself." "And was the transaction a good one for you?" "Not so bad, not so bad," said he, winking his honest gray eyes with a world of simple cunning.
Vienne est une ville assez grande, bien fermée de bons fossés et de hauts murs, et où l'on trouve de riches marchands et des ouvriers de toute profession. Au nord elle a le Danube qui baigne ses murs. Le pays aux environs est agréable et bon, et c'est un lieu de plaisirs et d'amusemens.
The fosses were half-filled, and the bluish osiers were already spreading out their flexible branches over the shallow waters; nettles were growing at the foot of the crumbling towers, and the traces of the fire seemed still fresh upon the walls.
Lo, yon castle ye have no such in England. See its vawmures and fosses!" "A noble pile," answered Harold. "But pardon me that I press for " "Ye have no such strongholds, I say, in England?" interrupted the Duke petulantly.
Destavigny and Petit had indeed continued the pursuit, and their cries brought out all the spies posted in the quarter. Just as Léridant wildly dashed into the Rue des Fossés, a whole pack of policemen rushed upon him. At the approach of this whirlwind the frightened passers-by shrank into the shelter of the doorways.
And he resumed his narrative in the same penetrating voice as before, a voice in which his own doubts were softened by pity for those who suffer and who hope. The scene of the story was now transferred to Lourdes, to the Rue des Petits Fosses, a narrow, tortuous, mournful street taking a downward course between humble houses and roughly plastered dead walls.
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