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He crossed the road and went back to "Tenby," where his sister's bedroom was yet darkened, and the very servant still slept serenely. He was good-hearted, and could not bring himself to hammer on the doors; but as he went to the pantry to find something for himself, he concluded that they had fortified themselves against the fly by drawing the sheets over their heads.
A dreaming cock crooned heart-brokenly somewhere out of sight, and a little hot breeze scooped up a feather of dust in the middle of the road and dropped again. Even the presbytery looked inviting on a day like this. He had walked a good twenty-five miles to-day, and the suggestion of a dark, cool room was delicious.
And we must be on the other side of Dalness before very long. You have been very good to us, and my name's John M'I ver of Barbreck a kind of a Campbell with a great respect for the Mac-Donalds, of whom I kent a few perfect gentry in foreign wars I have been at the fighting of. And good day, mistress, we must be going. My friends have the very small manners surely, for they're off down the road.
The mine was in a hollow, banked round by tall, gloomy kopjes, which seemed to stand like a bodyguard, sternly shutting them off from all sight or sound of the outside world. At the same time, the road to it was delightful.
Lightburn's advanced positions were two, a brigade under Colonel Siber of the Thirty-seventh Ohio being at Raleigh C. H. and another under Colonel Gilbert of the Forty-fourth Ohio, near the Hawk's Nest, and at Alderson's on the Lewisburg road.
It would have been fortunate for Holcroft if he had confined himself to literature; for some of his plays, notably The Road to Ruin, brought him in positively large sums of money, and his novels were fairly popular.
Concealment could be his only object in thus closely hugging the bluffs, for a much better road could have been found at a little distance out from them. After travelling for many miles in this way, the horseman at length arrived opposite the town, which still, however, was three miles distant from the cliff.
In this connection it hath been deemed necessary to mention such traditions as have been recorded regarding the blessed and honored city of Akká, that haply thou mayest, O Hádí, seek a path unto the Truth, and a road leading unto God. In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
They belong to the bygone days, they are linked with history. They make us think of the Road, of those days when highwaymen rode. I saw at once that the Donjon Inn was at least two centuries old perhaps older.
They moved with the same silence as formerly, notwithstanding the difficulties which they encountered from being unacquainted with the road and its various intricacies.
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