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Updated: June 28, 2025
"I slept," said he, "only to avoid idleness; for I must always be doing something." The Abbé of Poupet complained to him that the moles had spoiled a fine meadow, and he could find no remedy for them. "Why, cousin," said M. Gaulard, "it is but paving your meadow, and the moles will no more trouble you."
Appleton was involved in the movement of those who resorted to the little garden with flowers and fountain and asphalt paving, accessible through the northern exits.
'A sidewalk merchant? says I, sarcastic. 'Exactly, says he, 'Senior partner of a paving concern. "I kind of took to him. For this reason, I met him on Broadway one night when I was out of heart, luck, tobacco and place. He was all silk hat, diamonds and front. He was all front. If you had gone behind him you would have only looked yourself in the face.
It was very quiet now, for it was past nine o'clock. She heard a step, and it almost surprised her. A man with a big dog was walking in the shadow on the other side of the street, and when he was opposite the house he stood still and looked up at her window. He did not move for some time, but the dog came out into the moonlight in a leisurely way, and lay down on the paving stones.
Remembering himself in time, he fell to admiring some old rings and bracelets in a cabinet near by, thus paving the way for future visits. "I'll come in again," he said indifferently. "But you are leaving to-morrow, sir." "I've changed my mind." "You are not going?" "Not for a few days." "Then you have discovered something in Edelweiss to attract you?" grinned the old armourer.
The nave has been rebuilt in modern times, but in the open space before the entrance Roman coffins crop up above the rough paving, separated from each other only by a few feet.
It was only the moment before and that immense mass were in man to man encounter; now all the indignation of both parties seemed turned upon me; brick-bats were loudly implored, and paving stones begged to throw at my devoted head; the wild huntsman of the German romance never created half the terror, nor one-tenth of the mischief that I did in less than fifteen minutes, for the ill-starred beast continued twining and twisting like a serpent, plunging and kicking the entire time, and occasionally biting too; all which accomplishments I afterwards learned, however little in request in civil life, are highly prized in the horse police.
When he found a crowd gazing in at a "while you wait" shop-window, or entranced over the paving of a street "Splendid, isn't it?" he said to the person nearest him. He dropped a penny, which he could ill spare, into the hat of an exquisite who annoyed him by his way of lifting it to a lady. When he saw a man crossing the street too daintily, he ran after him and hit him over the legs.
Long did I see the lamps of the bridge glittering in the water; then suddenly the road turned abruptly, and, to judge by the almost intolerable shaking of the carriage and the profound darkness, we had entered one of those alleys, the paving of which is counted among the curses of civilization, the street-lamps being entrusted to the care of future generations.
'Well, says he, 'what trouble is on you now? 'Master, says the other, 'please let me go back to my forge, and let this carriage be filled with paving stones. No sooner said than done. The prince was sitting in his forge, and the horses wondered what was after happening to the carriage.
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