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Here, too, off the main-travelled roads, the wandering quack Patent Electric Pills, nerve cures, etc. divides the field with the seed and fruit man and the seller of cattle-boluses. They dose themselves a good deal, I fancy, for it is a poor family that does not know all about nervous prostration.
Now to do what I will have to do, I must have ten minutes of absolute darkness. Can that be arranged?" "Absolute darkness?" The mutter had a rising inflexion of dubiety. "How d'you mean?" "Complete extinguishing of every light on the ship." "My God!" the mutter protested. "Do you know what that means? No lights at night, under way, in main-travelled waters!
A pretty dancer I should be! I hope he is killed." One of the singularities of motoring on the main-travelled roads near Paris is the prevalence of cars containing physicians and surgeons. Another automobile had already come up and the occupants were hastily alighting. Ward shouted to the foremost to go for a doctor. "I am a doctor," the man answered, advancing and kneeling quickly by the dancer.
"Keep the main-travelled road till you come to a branch leading off-keep to the right." IN the windless September dawn a voice went singing, a man's voice, singing a cheap and common air. Yet something in the elan of it all told he was young, jubilant, and a happy lover. Above the level belt of timber to the east a vast dome of pale undazzling gold was rising, silently and swiftly.
Sentimental and romantic considerations, however, did not influence him altogether in his first important work. He had been kindled by Howells in Boston to a passion for realism which carried him beyond the suave accuracy of his master to the somber veracity of Main-Travelled Roads, Prairie Folks, and Rose of Dutcher's Coolly. This veracity was more than somber; it was deliberate and polemic. Mr.
"I can't go, auntie, until I've seen him safe outside the walls," he said firmly. "I said I would." They came to the little gate and passed through, into a winding path that soon brought them to a wide, main-travelled avenue. A light broke in upon Truxton's mind. He had it! This was the wonderful Countess Marlanx! No sooner had he come to that decision than he was forced to abandon it.
There were private organizations, vaguely resembling our modern express companies, which forwarded merchandise along the main-travelled routes and even into remote regions. Their messengers took charge of bales, boxes and packages of all sizes and also of letters.
Then he, too, ravaged by uneasy thoughts, struck off into the country lanes, the better to commune with himself. In due course, he came to the gate leading up to the top of Quill's Window. Here he lagged. His gaze went across the strip of pasture-land to the deserted house above the main-travelled road. He started. His gaze grew more intense. A lone figure traversed the highway.
For a symbol of the flow of time in waking consciousness, imagine yourself in a railway carriage which jogs along a main-travelled line at a rate predetermined by the time-table. You approach, reach and pass such stations as are intersected by that particular railway, and you get a view of the landscape which every other traveler shares.
Emarine hurried through the early winter dark until she came to the small and poor house where her husband's mother lived. It was off the main-travelled street. There was a dim light in the kitchen; the curtain had not been drawn. Emarine paused and looked in. The sash was lifted six inches, for the night was warm, and the sound of voices came to her at once. Mrs. Palmer had company.
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