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Threats and opprobrious epithets were freely used, and occasionally a paving-stone would be hurled from some one on the outskirts of the crowd; but the passage to the polls was kept open, and by one o'clock the citizens could deposit their votes without fear of personal violence. The evil of having the election continue three days now became more apparent than ever.
Indeed it was his behaviour towards the thimble that attracted my attention to it. Presently he managed to extricate the thimble from the flood, to lodge it on a paving-stone, but it was slippery and round, and rolled off between two cobbles. Then he put up his eye-glass and studied it. Was it worth soiling his fingers over or not? Was it of silver or of brass?
Again he traversed the Place du Chatelet diagonally, regained the quay, and returned with automatic precision to the very point which he had abandoned a quarter of an hour previously, leaned on his elbows and found himself again in the same attitude on the same paving-stone of the parapet. He did not appear to have stirred. The darkness was complete.
"Fire, if you dare take the life of a freeborn American for a bloody British actor! D n it, you dassent fire!" and he boldly bared his breast to the levelled muskets. "Fire, will you?" yelled another, as he hurled a paving-stone at General Sandford, wounding his sword arm. "Hit 'em again!" shouted a third, who saw the well-directed aim.
Oh, I kicked a paving-stone into the canal." "And don't you know there is a 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.
A brief extract from my note-book may furnish an idea of these scientific discourses. "Now, my friends," pursues the Doctor, "let us examine another curiosity," here he would take down something that looked like a mottled paving-stone in a very crumbling condition, "let us examine it carefully through the glass," here a pause, during which he performed the operation in question. "What is it?
Up from under his old-fashioned stock, round a chin like a paving-stone, curled an aggressive, white, wiry beard, and his blue eyes were steel-bright and hard. "Can't see what you're cackling so for!" he exclaimed, his shrill accents full of contempt. "Actin' like a passel of hens! There's a man shot, ain't they? Somebody shot him, didn't they?
He looked from the man Thomas, from whose countenance this last innuendo glanced off as from a stone wall, to 'Liza, who answered him with a puzzled scowl. Her foot began to tap the paving-stone impatiently. "When I gazes 'pon 'Liza," he pursued, "my eyes be fairly dazzled wi' the looks o' her. I allow that.
And shallow-minded legislatures will enact preposterous social laws for the regulation of the morals of boys, and imagine they have placed another paving-stone in the road to the millennium, while the Mrs. Rolfstons are having a riotous time of it. When the first frosts of autumn come the black ash swales are dry, and there is more life in them than in midsummer.
But Mr. Mr, M ? Where was he to go to? Whither? In what direction? 'Why, if you come to that, said the man of 1800, 'to any ditch that he prefers: surely there's good choice of ditches for the most fastidious taste. During twenty years, viz. from 1800 to 1820, this new philosophy, which substituted a ditch for a dinner, and a paving-stone for a loaf, prevailed and prospered.
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