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In the afternoon, very probably, she dresses herself in silks, looking not only pretty, but lady-like, and strolls round the house, not unconscious that some gentleman may be staring at her from behind the green blinds. After supper, she walks to the village. Morning and evening, she goes a-milking.
and he thinks it would be nice to have a hovel, no matter how small, to take refuge in, and at once sets about its construction. In some sequestered nook, embanked around, Sods for its walls and straw in burdens bound; Dried fuel hoarded is his richest store, And circling smoke obscures his little door; Whence creeping forth to duty's call he yields, And strolls the Crusoe of the lonely fields.
For their aimless strolls through the dark, flower-scented lanes were a delight to her. "And Billy's coming over to-morrow to walk to Gioli's," Josephine added contentedly. That evening and the next day Susan always remembered as terminating a certain phase of her life, although for perhaps a week the days went on just as usual.
If therefore one strolls along the firing line a tedious amusement at all times it is more than likely that one will find long stretches completely deserted. The scene is desolate; the walk is strangely eerie.
It is twenty-four miles from the village and eighteen across the fjeld. Have I said that I was too near men? Heaven help me, for some days in succession I have been taking strolls in the forest, saying good morning and pretending I was in human company.
On my solitary strolls, it is true, I generally took a volume of Byron with me, because I possessed a miniature edition, to read on some mountain height with a view of Mont Blanc, but I soon left it at home, for I realised that I hardly ever drew it from my pocket. The only work I permitted myself was the sketching of plans for building myself a house.
Sometimes they assume a benevolent form, and sometimes they have a holiday-making aspect, yet with a touch of the lugubrious. In London, or in some one of the thriving towns lying within a score of miles of it, he strolls into a church, where he sees a number of loaves of bread piled up at the back of the communion-table, or ranged, as they are in a baker's shop, upon shelves against the wall.
Strolls by Salisbury Crag; climb to the top of Arthur's Seat; delight of looking up at the grand old castle, of looking down on Holyrood Palace, of watching the groups on Calton Hill, wandering in the quaint old streets and sauntering on the sidewalks of the noble avenues, even at that time adding beauty to the new city.
"In a little while he came back, looking the worse for wear. A few drops of blood discolored his cheek near the ear. He never told me what happened. I only know that after that night he was not so restless and took no moonlight strolls. "The next night I helped the girl again with her compound interest, but Reid talked to the old man about running logs down the river on the June tide."
But spying with a hawk's glance a forestiere among the crowd, he strolls up to him, holding up one of his gimcrack bracelets daintily and he thinks temptingly, poor fellow! between his finger and thumb. "Un franco! Un sol franco! è una beleza per una contesa!" One franc! It is wonderful how the thing, worthless as it is, can be made even by the most starving fingers for such a price.
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