Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 7, 2025
The scattered lamp-posts lightened his spirits, and even the badly paved streets rang under the beats of his horse's feet like music. Great mills and manufactories, with only a night-watchman's light in the lowest of their many stories, began to take the place of the gloomy farmhouses and gaunt trees that had startled him with their grotesque shapes.
There's not many shore-going berths that a sailorman is fit for, and those that they are such as a night-watchman's, for instance wants such a good character that there's few as are to equal it. Sometimes they get things to do ashore. I knew one man that took up butchering, and 'e did very well at it till the police took him up.
The whole story of the place was repeated in court, and the night-watchman's wife, who sobbed during the entire time she stood in the witness-box, made light of her black eye and numerous bruises, but said, "Not if Tim murdered her, could she stay alone in the house another night." To prevent him murdering her, he was sent to gaol for two months, and Mr.
'And do you, he continued, addressing his driver, who was no other than the respectable Tamplin, 'follow at a walking pace. Have they ordered on? he asked, slipping a crown into the night-watchman's hand. 'I think not, your honour, the man answered. 'I believe they are staying. With a word of satisfaction Mr. Pomeroy hurried his unwilling companion towards the inn.
Yes, I know, said the night-watchman, thoughtfully, as he sat with a cold pipe in his mouth gazing across the river. I've 'eard it afore. People tell me they don't believe in ghosts and make a laugh of 'em, and all I say is: let them take on a night-watchman's job.
Kothner's reading of the rules of correct minstrelsy is one of the exceptions, and the night-watchman's crying of the hour is another; but these, as Lamb said of Coleridge's philosophic preaching, are "only his fun." The melodies are often quite Weberesque in contour; the harmonies are either plain work-a-day ones or modern so modern that no one had used them before.
He grows hot with anger at remembrance of the masters' treatment of him, but, even more, with loathing at the thought of his beloved sitting to-morrow in their midst, looked upon by them with covetous eyes as a possible bride. "And I would endure it, do you think? I would not fall upon them all, sword in hand?" The night-watchman's horn breaks across his heated outburst.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking