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Updated: June 18, 2025
And it was the old town that she visited at twilight, when the cool, perfumed breezes came down from the mountains, the old painted and gilded semi-Spanish church where she had made her first communion, the old Asylum so full of suffering where during eight years she had grown accustomed to solitude all that poor, innocent old town, whose every paving-stone awoke old affections in her memory's depths.
Oh, I kicked a paving-stone into the canal." "And don't you know there is heavy fine for that, you scoundrel? And pray where are the bread-bags?" "The bread-bags, sir? Oh, Mr Short took them to tie up some vegetables in them." "Mr Short! O, very well.
All this he knew, not because he was a philosopher or a genius, but because he was a child. Any one who cares to walk up a side slum like Pump Street, can see a little Adam claiming to be king of a paving-stone. And he will always be proudest if the stone is almost too narrow for him to keep his feet inside it.
I've never been the dog to drop a good jawful of solids to snap at its shadow. When I've been that dog I've quietly put my meat down on the plank, and then There's another break-neck paving-stone 'bowders' you call them. No horse alive could keep its feet in such country." The three men rode some distance in silence. Then the little man, who kept a few yards in front, drew up and said,
He then described what a glorious bridge this bridge would be; how it would eclipse all bridges that had ever been built; how the fleets of all nations would ride under it; how many hundred thousand square feet of wrought iron would be consumed in its construction; how many tons of Portland stone in the abutments, parapets, and supporting walls; how much timber would be buried twenty fathoms deep in the mud of the river; how many miles of paving-stone would be laid down.
Scarcely any one was aware at that time that it was the intention of the Government to forbid the banquet; but that night the preparations made for it were carted away by order of the liberal leaders, who had been warned of the decision of the authorities, while at the same time every loose paving-stone that might help to erect a barricade was, by orders from the police, removed out of the way.
'N no! said Cherry, tracing out one particular paving-stone in Monument Yard with the end of her parasol. 'I but really it's quite impossible to explain. Won't you walk in? 'You live here, then? said Tom 'Yes, returned Miss Pecksniff, pointing with her parasol to Todgers's; 'I reside with this lady, AT PRESENT.
The Thenardier woman snatched up an enormous paving-stone which lay in the angle of the window and served her daughters as an ottoman. Javert put on his hat again, and advanced a couple of paces into the room, with arms folded, his cane under one arm, his sword in its sheath. "Halt there," said he. "You shall not go out by the window, you shall go through the door. It's less unhealthy.
And though his having done so, comes upon me with a sort of shock for mine is a very weak and foolish nature; which is anything but a blessing I am sure; I often wish my heart was a marble slab, or a paving-stone 'My sweet Louisa, remonstrated Miss Tox again.
She had thrown off her shawl, but retained her bonnet; her husband, who was crouching behind her, was almost hidden under the discarded shawl, and she was shielding him with her body, as she elevated the paving-stone above her head with the gesture of a giantess on the point of hurling a rock. "Beware!" she shouted. All crowded back towards the corridor.
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