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Updated: June 29, 2025
It isn't exactly a garden, for there are lots of things in it that we would consider quite superfluous in a self-respecting garden. There is a good tennis lawn, plots of flowers, trimly-kept walks bordered with poinsettias, and trees with white, heavily-scented flowers, and opposite my bedroom is a little stone-paved enclosure where two cows and two calves lead a calm and meditative existence!
The site of the city was lost, but was found after the lapse of centuries and the Italian Government began the excavations in 1860. Some of the old stone-paved streets, showing the ruts made by chariot wheels that ceased to roll centuries ago, have been laid bare.
We have seen how he came careering down-street just in time to behold Yasmini's carriage rumble into her stone-paved palace courtyard.
It was a pleasant thing to see a carpet again, for if there is any thing drearier than the tomb-like, stone-paved parlors and bed-rooms of Europe and Asia, I do not know what it is. They make one think of the grave all the time. A very broad, gaily caparisoned divan, some twelve or fourteen feet long, extended across one side of each room, and opposite were single beds with spring mattresses.
It is connected by curtain walls with the chapel on one side, and on the other with the old château, some of whose great square towers, built of the red stone of the country, must be very ancient indeed. The façade of 'the new house' fronts on a broad terrace, which descends ten or twelve feet to stone-paved courtyards, the whole enclosed by moat and wall.
As we pass in through many a massive gateway, tread many a stone-paved path, climb many an old oak stair worn by the feet of many generations, it is strange if no strand of sentiment puts us in touch with some of those who have passed that way before. And first to Merton, oldest of university colleges.
The people have a slow, slouching, shabby appearance; and the traveler is forcibly reminded, by the strange costumes he meets at every turn the thriftless and degenerate aspect of the laboring classes the great lumbering wagons that roll over the stone-paved streets the droskies rattling hither and thither with their grave, priest-like drivers and wild horses the squads of filthy soldiers lounging idly at every corner the markets and market-places, and all that gives interest to the scene, that he is in a foreign land a wild land of fierce battles between the elements, and fiercer still between men where civilization is ever struggling between Oriental barbarism and European profligacy.
In the stone-paved yard beneath the window, a small daughter of the house hung out garments of various hues and shapes, while inside, in the scullery, the master of the house was doing the family washing with all the secrecy and trepidation of one engaged in an unlawful task.
As his guards were conducting him from the justice-room, through the stone-paved passage that leads from front to rear of Smithell's Hall, he stamped his foot upon one of the flagstones in earnest protestation against the wrong which he was undergoing.
Then, far down the stone-paved corridors, one heard a vague slow sound approaching: clank... clink... clank Joan of Arc, Deliverer of France, in chains! My head swam; all things whirled and spun about me. Ah, I was realizing, too. 5 Fifty Experts Against a Novice I GIVE you my honor now that I am not going to distort or discolor the facts of this miserable trial.
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