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The top story of all held the machinery connected with the turning of the sails. Ladders led from story to story, and each room had two windows on opposite sides of the mill. Use is second nature, and all the sounds which haunt a windmill were soon as familiar and as pleasant to the little Jan as if he had been born a windmiller's son.
Gaze at them as they pass you in the quiet road, and acknowledge that, in spite of their rough and even uncouth exteriors, a happier four could hardly be met with in this favourite haunt of pleasure-seekers during a long summer's day." And you do gaze at them and are sadder, if anything, than you were before. You see them, if anything, more poignantly.
A favored haunt is the dark damp woods, especially beneath hemlocks, and with its deep pink hood and pure white lip is quite showy enough to warrant its specific title, "spectabilis." B, Webby connection between grains. I have seen many specimens with the pollen masses withdrawn, and others with their stigmas well covered with the grains.
"I think," she said, speaking with a slow consideration of her words; "I think it was because I could not bear to have you go out of the world, believing what was not true! It seemed like a deceit going over into eternity!" Would he say something very dreadful in reply, she wondered; something that would haunt her for the rest of her days?
A projection of themselves shall appear to haunt unfriended these scenes of happiness, a natural child of fancy, begotten and forgotten unawares. Over the whole field of our wanderings such fetches are still travelling like indefatigable bagmen; but the imps of Fontainebleau, as of all beloved spots, are very long of life, and memory is piously unwilling to forget their orphanage.
I rose early, after having passed so disturbed a night, and soon made my way to the usual haunt of Nero, whom I discovered in the sea near the rocks making all sorts of strange tumblings and divings, apparently after some dark object that was floating in the water.
Then, afterwards, he began to haunt the paths of this young Satan, crept up to him in the news-room, skulked about him in the restaurant. At last David took notice of him, and they made friends. 'Have you got anybody belonging to you? he asked him shortly. 'No, said the boy. 'Father died last spring; mother was took with pleurisy in November
At this point, however, in a land of great and lesser rivers, with a network of creeks, the boat provided the chief means of communication. Behind all, enveloping all, still spread the illimitable forest, the haunt of Indians and innumerable game. Virginians were already preparing for an expansion to the north. There was a man in Virginia named William Claiborne.
The Kestons had decided to return to Cheyne Walk in another three weeks or so, and of course he must accompany them; his mother and Anna would be back in town by that time, and his presence would be needed in Lincoln's Inn. "The shadows of the prison-house," as he called it, began to haunt him, and he counted up his days as jealously as a miser counts his gold.
Think of them staggering across the great cemetery and stumbling over the rotting carcases not yet committed to the earth, breathing all the while the tainted breath of corruption- sickening, loathsome! Think of them returning as they came, going over the same ground as before, and compelled to gaze again at Sights that haunt the soul for ever, Poisoning life till life is done.
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