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Updated: June 17, 2025
We descended only about 100 feet and pitched our tents on a flattish, spongy piece of grass, near a pretty streamlet overhung with begonias and many other flowers, at a spot called Adahan, where a sort of pass winds its way between the granite peaks. We were encamped for several days at an elevation of close on 3,000 feet above the sea-level.
Her eyes dwelt on his rather ugly, flattish forehead, which somehow fascinated her. He appeared to be thinking of something else and trying at the same time to bring his attention to bear on the problem of the moment. "Ah yes. I'll probably let you know this evening, after I've seen that letter. What is your address?" She gave him the name of her small hotel and he wrote it down.
Two streets, formed by two roads, ended in a third street along the sandy, flattish river shore, and there stood four or five larger dwellings, like their humbler neighbors, built of wood, but with bolder, greater chimneys, rising into the air as if in rivalry of four large ships and brigs that lay at anchor or beside the two wharves, and threw their masts and spars into the sailing clouds, making the low forest that closed river and village in, stoop to its humility.
There were great areas of bare stones to be crossed stones rounded and weathered by the elements through thousands of years, and finally heaped together like flattish piles of pumpkins on a barn floor. Acres and acres were covered by these great deposits of rounded, lichened rocks. In crossing these rocky areas it was necessary to use the greatest caution.
Now, what's in that smallish, flattish, whitish parcel?" The parcel in question proved to be a watch, a dear little gold watch. Kitty had never owned one before, and it almost took her breath away. "Mine?" she exclaimed, in wonder. "All mine?" "Yes, every bit yours," said Mr. Maynard, smiling at her.
She sat down in all her benevolent stateliness and with a slightly irritating deliberation undid the parcel, displaying a flattish leather case about seven inches by four, which she handed formally to Julian Maldon, saying as she did so "From your old auntie, my dear boy, with her loving wishes. You have now lived just a quarter of a century."
The slope is steep and the ground broken with shallow gullies and lynchets. Well down towards the river, just above the road, a flattish piece of land leads to a ravine with steep and high banks. This flattish land, well within the enemy line, was the scene of very desperate fighting on the 1st of July.
Close behind came Pestler with a tray filled with boxes of candy, and next Sanderson with a flattish basket piled high with carnations, each one tied as a boutonniere; and Porterfield with a bunch of bananas; and so on and so on each arrival being received with fresh roars and shouts of welcoming approval.
It is a fearful name, Lydia; I always felt it so when I was a girl, and I was so glad to marry out of it; and it sounds so terribly American. I think you must take your mother's name, my dear. Latham is rather flattish, but it's worlds better than Blood." "I am not ashamed of my father's name," said Lydia. "But you'll have to change it some day, at any rate, when you get married."
He's jest got a few ordinary men to deal with; if he and his miracles can't git the best of them he ain't no prophet. Here's a flattish log now on top. Git up and sit on the fence, sister." While she struggled in custody another group of dark figures came suddenly at a swinging trot round the dark outline of one of the nearer houses.
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