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Men and women take life in different ways. Don't be so sure yours is the only right one. He spoke with a moved gentleness, taking her hand the while. "This is the way, walk ye in it!" she said presently, with strong, almost stern emphasis. 'Oh, those women, and that talk! Hateful! He rose and looked down on her from the mantelpiece.
Grandmamma would not trust any one to do it but me, but by ten I can get out for a walk. It used to be dreadfully tiresome until we came here, because I was never allowed to go out without Hephzibah, and she was so busy we never got a chance in the morning, but since we came here I have had such a pleasure.
He should leave the railway and walk in from Warwick, find quiet lodgings, of which there is no lack, in the town, and visit in turn the highways and by-ways of Stratford, Snitterfield, Wilmcote, Aston Clinton, Shottery, Wotten Wawens, Charlecote, and a dozen other points of interest, of which he will learn when he has definitely left the ranks of excursionists and has made friends among the people of Shakespeare's countryside.
The Indians declare that he is fascinated by the light; and though he may walk round and round it, he will not leave the spot, and thus presents an easy mark to the hunter's rifle. Let us set forth on an expedition to "creep" moose, which may be described as a similar mode of hunting to stalking. The ground we select is among the "barrens" before described.
Kondjé-Gul and I then took a turn up the walk, while I expounded the mythology of the bath to her, and then we went out. "Who are those ladies?" she asked me as soon as we were at a good distance from them; "they know you, I could see." "Oh, yes," I replied in an indifferent tone, "I have met them several times."
"This is some island of last year's indigo-crop," he went on. "We shall find no men here; but have great care, Sahib; all the snakes of a hundred miles have been flooded out. Here comes the lightning, on the heels of the wind. Now we shall be able to look; but walk carefully." Findlayson was far and far beyond any fear of snakes, or indeed any merely human emotion.
'But you have not seen the place yet, she said, speaking still with a certain tremor in her voice. 'You haven't even seen the gardens. Come, and I'll show them to you. Hubert would have preferred to walk with her through these ornamental swards; and he liked the espalier apple-trees with which the garden was divided better than the glare and heat of the greenhouses into which she took him.
The burgomaster, who was not entirely lacking in good breeding, became calmer. "Do you promise?" said he. "I promise!" "Very well walk in front." And that is how, on the night of the 29th of July, 1835, the burgomaster took captive a little red-haired man, issuing from the cavern of Geierstein.
But if we cannot walk round Swallowfield, we can drive, and the very sight of you will do me good. If Mr. Bentley send me only one copy of that engraving, it shall be for you. You know I have a copy for you of the book. There are no words to tell the letters and books I receive about it, so I suppose it is popular.
Afterwards we can walk over to your house if you like you may want to give me some final directions about the work that's to be done there while you're gone." "I'd love to go to the cemetery or anywhere else, for that matter with you," said Sylvia, "and afterwards to our house. Perhaps you'll want to give some directions yourself!"
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