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When they appeared upon the street, however, the passersby stopped and stared at the curious pair Bob, in his worn, ill-fitting suit, and the darky, very black, clad in the latest fashion with amazement.
"Funny thing about the clocks all stopping, though. S'pose they all ran down at once?" "They couldn't," Darcy answered, "I wound the regulator only yesterday," and he pointed to the tall timepiece in the show window the solemn-ticking clock by which many passersby set their watches. "The other clocks " "And they've all stopped at different times!" added Tremlain. "That's funny, too."
We no longer suffer them to appeal at the prison gates to the charity and compassion of the passersby; but we still leave unblotted the leaves of our statute book, for the reverence and admiration of succeeding ages, the just and wholesome law which declares that the sturdy felon shall be fed and clothed, and that the penniless debtor shall be left to die of starvation and nakedness.
For weeks he had been picturing the circumstances of this meeting; now it was about to take place. The Atlas was similar to the other games parlor where Alan had had the set-to with the robohuckster; it was dark-windowed and a shining blue robot stood outside, urging passersby to step inside and try their luck. Alan moistened his dry lips; he felt cold and numb inside.
He forgot to put on his hat when he walked along the street; the distraction he revealed was the source of constant merriment to passersby and on-lookers. He would not know when it was noon; he would come home at three o’clock, thinking it was twelve.
Though it was anything but a hot day, Mr Meagles was in a heated state that attracted the attention of the passersby; more particularly as he leaned his back against a railing, took off his hat and cravat, and heartily rubbed his steaming head and face, and his reddened ears and neck, without the least regard for public opinion. 'Whew! said Mr Meagles, dressing again. 'That's comfortable.
We might have known no more of them had not the whole party suddenly come to a standstill and, grouping themselves out of the way of the passersby, all talked at once to a pretty little maiden, whom they had drawn from the tide of people flowing toward the town. "Oh, Katrinka!" they cried in one breath, "have you heard of it? The race we want you to join!" "What race?" asked Katrinka, laughing.
The oaks, hickories, walnuts, butternuts, hazelnuts, trust their fruits to the feet of passersby and to the squirrels and blue jays which fail to find many of their buried acorns and nuts. The big three-valved balloons of the bladdernut can sail either in the air, on the water, or over the frozen snow.
Between Simpkins and Bob, however, no words were exchanged; though each, while apparently gazing at the passersby, kept a sharp lookout upon the other. Minute after minute went by, without the return of the two men, who had said they were going to the bank for money, and as the time wore on without their re-appearance, Simpkins exclaimed: "I wonder what's keeping them?
He stood for a space, newly conscious of unfamiliar faces and unfamiliar voices in the stream of passersby; then, suddenly mastered by an impulse, he wheeled rapidly and darted after the tall, lean figure so ridiculously like his own. Half-way across Trafalgar Square he overtook the stranger.
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