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"So sorry you can't come," she added, turning to Roderick, "but we'll give you another invitation." She looked disappointed, and a little inclined to pout, but she waved her hand as she ran down the steps and joined the group of lace and flowers now fluttering down the side-walk towards the ice cream parlour. "Leslie's made a new conquest," cried a tall girl with flashing black eyes.
An aged government clerk, grown infirm in the service, takes the stand and the government attorney proves through him that there is a White House; that it has a side-walk in front of it, and a pavement, and a hundred other overwhelming facts. The pathetic clerk shakes his dusty frame and slinks off the stand.
And having thus placed beyond the pale the only two friends she had in New York, she was free to devote herself without hindrance to the task of feeling thoroughly lonely and wretched. The shadows deepened. Across the street a sort of bubbling explosion, followed by a jerky glare that shot athwart the room, announced the lighting of the big arc-lamp on the opposite side-walk.
He brought out his trump, so to speak, when he mentioned Miss Sallianna, and alluded to his intention never to return, perhaps. The lady could not resist. The moment had arrived when she was to decide whether she should supply the youthful O'Calligans with a noble father and protector, or suffer them still to inhabit the dangerous side-walk in infant helplessness, and exposed to every enemy.
Neither of them spoke, but their hearts throbbed with the same emotion as they thought of the days that were past. Just then the gasman came quickly up the street, lit, as by an electric touch, the bright burners that in close ranks lined either side-walk, and in a moment more was out of sight. Gertrude sighed.
And anyway, I don't believe it was his name at all; I believe he took it from a corner grocery beside Bellairs's." "As like as not," said Jim, still standing on the side-walk with contracted brows. "Well, what shall we do next?" I asked. "The natural thing would be to rush the schooner," he replied. "But I don't know.
The ground was low and damp, and every house in Willow Lane that had the misfortune to possess a cellar was the abode of disease. A deep ditch ran parallel to the rickety board side-walk. There had just been a week of unceasing rain and it was full of green water. "Oh dear!" said Helen, in distress. "I had no idea there was such a place as this in Algonquin."
The roadway was deserted; but along the side-walk, sober families, marching by twos and threes, turned their heads at the sound of Bayard's hoofs on the cobbles. The Collector set his face and passed them with a grave look, as of one absorbed in affairs of moment.
I seem to have been drinking; I was that knocked over. I wouldn't turn you away, Alan, if you were down on your luck." "No?" returned Alan. "Neither will I you, then. Come and let's get your portmanteau." The cabman was paid, and drove off down the long, lamp-lit hill, and the two friends stood on the side-walk beside the portmanteau till the last rumble of the wheels had died in silence.
In an instant the beggar was down under the hoofs of the steeds. The flunkey laughed! I was but a few feet distant on the side-walk, and, quick as thought, I had the horses by their heads and pushed them back upon their haunches.
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