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Updated: June 18, 2025
"That then was the paving-stone. Now I've found it out, I'll cut his very soul out of his body." But the corporal protested against open measures, as, although it was known by his own confession to be the case, it could not be proved, as none of the men would tell.
Not a single paving-stone in the paved yard was to be seen. It seemed paved with faces. Only the compartment for the nobility remained empty. There was thus a space in the centre of the balcony, a black hole, called in metaphorical slang, an oven. No one there. Crowds everywhere except in that one spot. One evening it was occupied.
The search for these "deaf things" among the stones is a joy of formidable nature. Another pleasure consists in suddenly prying up a paving-stone, and taking a look at the wood-lice. Each region of Paris is celebrated for the interesting treasures which are to be found there.
Sparsit, with a dignity serenely mournful, 'was familiar with the Italian Opera at a very early age. 'Egad, ma'am, so was I, said Bounderby, with the wrong side of it. A hard bed the pavement of its Arcade used to make, I assure you. People like you, ma'am, accustomed from infancy to lie on Down feathers, have no idea how hard a paving-stone is, without trying it.
As if feeling his power, the elder man relaxed his hold and pointed to the spot where his victim had disappeared. "He was a good man," he said, more to himself than to Andrew, "and the world has lost a great philanthropist; but he is better as he is." Then he lifted a paving-stone, and peered long and earnestly into the waters. The short stout man, however, did not rise again.
The potato of cities is a very dangerous missile; and, if thrown with an accurate aim by an angry hand, will fracture any known skull. In volume and consistency, it is very like a paving-stone; only that, I should say, the paving-stone had the advantage in point of tenderness.
As he approached Sydney, his gestures were wild and threatening: he held in his hands a large paving-stone, which he raised, as if to hurl it at the other with all his force. Sydney, naturally conceiving the man's intentions to be hostile, drew the sword from his cane, and prepared to act on the defensive, at the same time exclaiming: 'Who are you, and what do you wish?
Sure enough I saw him in a group near the yellow balloon, wearing a heavy overcoat and a sealskin cap. He seated himself upon a paving-stone and put on a pair of high fur-lined boots. A leather bag was slung over his shoulder. He took it off, entered the balloon, and a young man, the aeronaut, tied the bag to the cordage above Gambetta's head. It was half past 10.
A paving-stone crashed through its heavy window. A knife ripped up the velvets of the cushions. The coachman was pulled from his box. The horses, plunging with terror, were cut loose from the pole and led away.
"There has already been fighting here a short time ago," said the last-maker in a low voice; and he added, after a pause, "We are getting near." The unpaving had left holes, of which we had to be careful. We strode, and sometimes jumped, from paving-stone to paving-stone.
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