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My toll-house, which I had to pass, was standing on the old spot, the tall trees in the castle garden were still murmuring above it, and a yellow-hammer, which always used to sing at sunset in the chestnut-tree before the window, was singing again, as if nothing in the world had happened since I last heard him. The toll-house window was open; I ran up to it with delight and looked in.
When I had walked some distance without meeting with an inn on the road, and it had already begun to be dark, I at last sat me down near a small toll-house, or a turnpike-gate, in order to rest myself, and also to see whether the man at the turnpike could and would lodge me. After I had sat here a considerable time, a farmer came riding by, and asked me where I wanted to go?
Save her if thou canst from her ravishers, and conduct her back to this temple or deliver her in Memphis into the hands of my sister Leukippa, the wife of the overseer of the harbor, named Hipparchus, who dwells in the toll-house. May Serapis preserve thee and thine." The recluse had just finished his letters when Klea returned to him.
Once in a while he sat down to rest or sleep for a few minutes, but he didn't dare to really go to sleep, for fear that he would sleep all the rest of the night; and he had to be in Boston by daylight. And, once in a while, he had to sneak around a toll-house, because he didn't have any money.
You will find a friendly welcome at my sister Leukippa's; she lives in the toll-house by the great harbor show her this ring and she will give you a bed, and, if the gods are merciful, one for Irene too." "Thank you, father," said Klea, but she said no more, and then left him with a rapid step.
"'Well, well, said the woman, 'she must be a queer one. I'll go out to her. "'Oh, no, cried Sam. 'Sit here and finish your dinner. He's comin' right back, and I'll collect the toll. Half-way to the toll-house Sam met Abner. 'What do you think of her? he asked hurriedly. 'Did you take a good look at her? "'Yes, I did, replied his friend, 'and I don't think nothin' of her.
'Yes, said Tom, 'left him. The tollman looked at his wife, uncertain whether to ask her if she had anything to suggest, or to order her to mind the children. Astonishment making him surly, he preferred the latter, and sent her into the toll-house with a flea in her ear. 'You left Mr Pecksniff! cried the tollman, folding his arms, and spreading his legs.
But at the first toll-house, while the toll-keeper was changing some money, I experienced the envy of the gods which hitherto I had known only in Schiller's ballad. A pedestrian passed the teacher whom I had offended by playing all sorts of pranks during his French lesson. Not one of the others disliked me.
Gideon Ward's sister after the irascible Colonel had driven every other suitor away from that patient lady and then gave the Colonel his "everlasting comeuppance," and settled down in Smyrna as boss of the Ward household, that event nearly wore Gossip's tongue into ribbons. "I see'd it from a distance the part that happened in front of the toll-house," said Old Man Jordan.
I tried the door, and found it locked, as was also the other door, behind which the pale maid slept. This had never been so before since I had been at the castle. Here was I imprisoned in a foreign land! The Lady fair undoubtedly was even now standing at her window and looking across the quiet garden toward the high-road, to see if I were not coming from the toll-house with my fiddle.
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