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"No," he rejoined gravely. "I put it clumsily as I snatch purses. As a matter of sober fact, love sets the mile-stones along any human road that is worth traversing." She glanced up at him and the blue eyes were dancing. Miss Alicia Adair knew no joy to compare with that of teasing, and it was not often that the fates gave her such a pliable subject. "Tell me, Mr. Ford; is is she pretty?"
Lord Percy's soldiers took counsel of it one hot April morning to find the road to Lexington. Governor Belcher set out a row of mile-stones from Boston Town House to his home in Milton. Some of them are still standing, the seventh and eighth in Milton, one marked "8 miles to B. Town House. The Lower Way, 1734."
There are four white dresses climbing a hill in front of my window now. I can see them distinctly, though it is three miles away. I thought at first they were mile-stones out for a lark. It's so nice to be able to see the darlings a long way off. Especially if they happen to be your wife and your mother-in-law.
But you are right and there are my father and Christopher himself." Christopher to his great joy had been allowed to drive down with Aymer and Mr. Aston, and had found the journey not one mile too long. Indeed towards the end his early curiosity as to the termination had evaporated and the mile-stones had come in sight and vanished all too quickly.
Hence, Hall's discovery must always stand as one of the great mile-stones of the advance of neurological science.
'Oh not that disagreeable name, say Flora! 'Flora, is it worth troubling yourself afresh to enter into explanations? I assure you none are needed. I am satisfied I am perfectly satisfied. A diversion was occasioned here, by Mr F.'s Aunt making the following inexorable and awful statement: 'There's mile-stones on the Dover road!
"That," thought he, "is the result of following accepted opinions and those absurd phrases, all ready to hand, which are like mile-stones along a fool's road! Left free to my own inspirations, I should have examined this case more thoroughly, I would have left nothing to chance. The formula, 'Seek out the one whom the crime benefits' may often be as absurd as true.
And, quite unconsciously, his hand upon the throttle was giving the Imp more and more power, so that the car flew past the succeeding mile-stones at such short intervals that before the pair knew it they were within sight of the city on the farther side of which lay the suburban village which was their home.
He seems to have been inspired with the ambition of a moralist, and distributed Hermae, or stone busts of Mercury, about the city and the public roads, which, while answering a similar purpose to our mile-stones, arrested the eye of the passenger with pithy and laconic apothegms in verse; such as, "Do not deceive your friend," and "Persevere in affection to justice;" proofs rather of the simplicity than the wisdom of the prince.
As it now melts, it drops its various burdens on the ground; boulders are the mile-stones marking the different stages of its journey, the terminal and lateral moraines are the framework which it erected around itself as it moved forward, and which define its boundaries centuries after it has vanished, while the scratches and furrows it has left on the surface below show the direction of its motion.
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