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In the right angle stood The Birches; the house itself faced the Chatford road, while behind it, in regular succession, came first the sloping garden, then the walled-in playground, and then the small field in which were attempted such games of cricket and football as the limited number of pupils would permit.
The whole day is given up to festivities of every sort and description, and all the neighborhood are invited to a great big Cherry Feast in the evening. "The feast is held in the walled-in garden, which is lit with colored lanterns.
The warehouse impregnable lair of the Smell, from which it leered smug defiance at the sea-sweet atmosphere of the lower city occupied a walled-in arch of the Brooklyn Bridge, fronting on Frankfort Street, in that part of Town still known to elder inhabitants as "the Swamp."
It is at the bottom of a walled-in pit, with a sloping entrance to the reservoir proper, walls and slope being of burnt brick. This "sunk enclosure" is about sixty feet long and thirty feet across at the lower end, and about six feet below the level to the edge of the reservoir.
They were only alike in this, that they all opened straight on to the wide pavement, and had walled-in, sunny gardens at the back. In one of the smaller of these houses a prim, thin-looking house, too tall for its breadth lived a maiden lady, well known by some of the Thetford folk, not indeed unknown to any, for she had made her home in the town for many years.
I heard of other cases of boycotting. It is not by any means a new device, although it has come so prominently before the public lately. From Roscommon I crossed country past Clara and Tullamore, across King's county into Portarlington on the borders of Queen's county. Portarlington is the centre of a beautiful country full of cultivated farms as well as shut-up and walled-in gentlemen's seats.
But this estuary, which separates the two countries, seems in this moment to Ramuntcho more melancholy than usual, more closed and more walled-in in front of him by these black mountains, at the feet of which hardly shine, here and there, two or three uncertain lights. Then, he is seized again by his desire to know what there is beyond, and further still. Oh! to go elsewhere!
While I looked, the thought of the Rue Fossette came across me of the walled-in garden and school-house, and of the dark, vast "classes," where, as at this very hour, it was my wont to wander all solitary, gazing at the stars through the high, blindless windows, and listening to the distant voice of the reader in the refectory, monotonously exercised upon the "lecture pieuse."
I am sure that the sugar-cane molasses, which I had with cold luchis for my breakfast, could not have tasted different from the ambrosia which Indra quaffs in his heaven; for, the immortality is not in the nectar but in the taster, and thus is missed by those who seek it. Behind the house was a walled-in enclosure with a tank and a flight of steps leading into the water from a bathing platform.
Picturesque it certainly is, with its flowing costumes and primitive homes, both of which vary in style from district to district, but all of which seem as though they must have been unchanged for thousands of years. Without security for life or property, the mountaineers go armed, they dwell in fortresses or walled-in villages, and are at constant war with one another.
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