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Updated: May 31, 2025
Through its open door, you see that it has a pavement of flagstones, or perhaps of red freestone; and hogs and donkeys are familiar with the threshold. The door always opens directly into the kitchen, without any vestibule; and, glimpsing in, you see that a cottager's life must be the very plainest and homeliest that ever was lived by men and women.
Often a cart would pass near her, bearing some shaking scenery. Waiters in aprons were sprinkling sand on the flagstones between green shrubs. It all smelt of absinthe, cigars, and oysters. She turned down a street; she recognised him by his curling hair that escaped from beneath his hat. Leon walked along the pavement. She followed him to the hotel.
The footstep that had passed on the flagstones a minute before had ceased; and there was no sound but the chirp of a bird under the eaves. "You have not heard then?" said the Lieutenant again. "Oh! for God's sake " cried the old man suddenly. "I have just come from your son," said the other steadily. "You are only just in time. He is at the point of death."
A few chairs and a single bench told that the people who came here to pray were not many nor rich. Most of the flagstones were broken, and the altar was almost simple enough to please a Calvinist. It was the simplicity, not of intention, but of poverty.
First, however, many spend what may be called a period of probation on the streets, where they sleep at night under arches or on stairways, or on the inhospitable flagstones and benches of the Embankment, even in winter.
"Later on," replied Moussa Isa, using the words that express the general attitude of the East. "Now, dog. Now, Hubshi, or I will beat thee." "I will kill you," replied Moussa Isa, and again bided his time. "Hubshi, Hubshi, Hubshi," goaded the misguided fat one. His Kismet led the youth, some weeks later, to lay him down and sleep in the shade of the house upon some broad flagstones.
Our round takes us first along the ground floor over flagstones that resound to our footsteps. It is about ten of the clock.
But the roots of the tree were not removed, and so that buried life has reasserted itself, the flagstones have been shattered, and now the wall is coming down. Here is a figure of our moral experience.
Alas! what avails it that five miles away in the heart of the city the hoofbeats of a company of cavalry resound rhythmically over the flagstones? Danton and his Northern riders are straining every nerve, galloping their steeds furiously eyes fixed on the seeming-impossible goal.
The front doors were closed, the basement grating likewise. An atmospheric accumulation of street debris littered the area flagstones, together with one or two empty and battered ash-cans, in whose shadows an emaciated cat skulked apprehensively.
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