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A portress admitted him with a smile and led him through the sumptuously appointed chamber of guests into the intramural park. There she indicated a nook in an arbor of vines and left him. With a silent foot he crossed the flowery court and entered the bower. The beautiful dweller sat in a deep chair, her little feet on a carved footstool, a silver-stringed lyre tumbled beside it.
Near the arsenal and drill ground there is a large intramural swamp or reedy lake, the reeds of which have an economic value as wicks for Chinese candles. Dykes cross the swamp in various directions, and in the centre there is a well known Taoist Temple, a richly endowed edifice, with superior gods and censers of great beauty.
No one seemed disposed to decline the invitation; some time was spent on the water, then on the Intramural Railway.
'This business almost put it out of my head. I took a turn on that Intramural road this afternoon. 'Yes? I knew better than to interrupt at this point. 'And I saw, I am sure I saw whom do you think? 'Dave, that's like a woman! I'm surprised at you. You saw Delbras. 'Wrong! I saw, I'm certain of it, Greenback Bob. 'Good!
I took my cue at once, and after a few more words, addressed to each in turn, and a short exchange of courtesies between him and myself, Monsieur Voisin lifted his hat, saying that since he was so much a laggard as to have lost some charming companions he would endeavour to recover his lost time by travelling to the Convent of La Rabida viâ the Intramural Railway; and so, smiling and bowing, he went back over the bridge to the station above the entrance.
The sundry appliances of electricity dispersed in all parts of the grounds, gave us already a conception of the incomparable rapidity with which it has developed both as an industry and science. The intramural railway demonstrated the latest application of electric motor power to elevated railroads.
Leaving the Intramural Train at the North Loop, we arrived at the Government Building; thus having completed our round-trip on the Fair Grounds and Midway Plaisance. When we returned to our floating home, we had the satisfaction of having obtained the best possible results of our first visit by properly utilizing every minute.
We skirted high walls, wayside pools, and dripping mill-wheels; then one of the city gates engulfed us, and we were in the waste spaces of intramural Fez, formerly the lines of defense of a rich and perpetually menaced city, now chiefly used for refuse-heaps, open-air fondaks, and dreaming-places for rows of Lazaruses rolled in their cerements in the dust.
A Department of Intramural Athletics has been established for some time, which seeks to develop a general interest in all kinds of sport; tennis, for which Ferry Field is admirably equipped with eighteen courts, boxing, gymnastics, swimming, cross-country running, hockey, indoor baseball and hand-ball, to say nothing of an increasing emphasis on class and fraternity football, base-ball, and basket-ball teams.
When Orange complained that she had been censuring his proceedings at Antwerp, and holding language unfavorable to his character, she protested that she thoroughly approved his arrangements excepting only the two points of the intramural preachings and the permission to heretics of other exercises than sermons and that if she were displeased with him he might be sure that she would rather tell him so than speak ill of him behind his back.
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