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For suddenly the barrow had tilted over, though there was not a single stone near, and the big coal was tumbled on to the ground, where it broke into a thousand pieces. Gathering it up again was hopeless, and it made such a mess on the gravel-walk, that the old woman was thankful her misfortune happened behind the privet hedge, where nobody was likely to come.
At length they stood upon the broad gravel-walk before the Warren-house. The building was profoundly dark, and none were moving near it save themselves. From one solitary turret-chamber, however, there shone a ray of light; and towards this speck of comfort in the cold, cheerless, silent scene, Mr Willet bade his pilot lead him.
Has not the woman as good a right as the man to long after ideal beauty to pine and die if she cannot find it; and regenerate herself in its light? 'Yo-hoo-oo-oo! Youp, youp! Oh-hooo! arose doleful through the echoing shrubbery. Argemone started and looked out. It was not a banshee, but a forgotten fox-hound puppy, sitting mournfully on the gravel-walk beneath, staring at the clear ghastly moon.
Half indignant, half terrified, at Turlington's roughness, Miss Lavinia rose to interfere. In a moment more he would have had two women to overpower instead of one, when a noise outside the window suddenly suspended the ignoble struggle. There was a sound of footsteps on the gravel-walk which ran between the house wall and the garden lawn.
In the garden, a winding path from the gravel-walk, in front of the house, leads to a small piece of water, originally a square pond.
It represented a large lady going along a serpentining up-hill gravel-walk, to attend a little church. Two swans had likewise come astray with the same intentions. Come in, little M.D. How are your inclinations as to sixpence?" You can't go on for ever, you'll find, nor yet could my father nor yet my mother.
Be merciful to me; forget that you have ever known me. 'Ida, Ida, shrieked shrill voices in the distance. White figures came flying down the broad gravel-walk, ghost-like in the moonlight. It was a blessed relief. Ida broke from Brian, and ran to meet Blanche and Bessie. 'Ida, Ida, such fun, such a surprise! shrieked Blanche, as the flying white figures came nearer, wavered, and stopped.
"And look, Miss Harson! it's made of lots of little sharp sticks." "The sharp sticks are pine-needles," was the reply "the dead pine-leaves of last year; and when the new growth of leaves have been put forth, they cover the ground with a smooth brown matting as comfortable as a gravel-walk, and yet a carpet of Nature's making.
Putney hoped to put it so strongly to him as a proof of duty that he could not resist it. Annie listened comfortlessly. Whatever happened, nothing could take away the shame of her weakness now. She even wished, feebly, vaguely, that she might be forced to keep her word. A sound of running on the gravel-walk outside and a sharp pull at the door-bell seemed to jerk them both to their feet.
'She's coming! cried the Larkspur. 'I hear her footstep, thump, thump, thump, along the gravel-walk! Alice looked round eagerly, and found that it was the Red Queen. 'She's grown a good deal! was her first remark. She had indeed: when Alice first found her in the ashes, she had been only three inches high and here she was, half a head taller than Alice herself!
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