Pavement
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Seated in her arm chair near the window, she could see the villagers pass along the
pavement.
There was a sound of steps on the
pavement.
Soon, however, it seemed to her that someone was walking on the
pavement.
Down below, underneath her, the village square was empty; the stones of the
pavement
glittered, the weathercocks on the houses were motionless.
At mid-day Charles came in; then he went out again; next she took some beef-tea, and towards five o'clock, as the day drew in, the children coming back from school, dragging their wooden shoes along the pavement, knocked the clapper of the shutters with their rulers one after the other.
Silver plate sparkled in the jeweller's windows, and the light falling obliquely on the cathedral made mirrors of the corners of the grey stones; a flock of birds fluttered in the grey sky round the trefoil bell-turrets; the square, resounding with cries, was fragrant with the flowers that bordered its pavement, roses, jasmines, pinks, narcissi, and tube-roses, unevenly spaced out between moist grasses, catmint, and chickweed for the birds; the fountains gurgled in the centre, and under large umbrellas, amidst melons, piled up in heaps, flower-women, bare-headed, were twisting paper round bunches of violets.
Emma kept beating the soles of her boots against the
pavement
of the yard.
Leon walked along the
pavement.
Suddenly on the
pavement
was heard a loud noise of clogs and the clattering of a stick; and a voice rose—a raucous voice—that sang—"Maids in the warmth of a summer day Dream of love and of love always"Emma raised herself like a galvanised corpse, her hair undone, her eyes fixed, staring.
A score of weighty hammers, falling with a clang which makes the
pavement
tremble, are raised aloft by a wheel which the water of the torrent sets in motion.
The choir was enclosed with stalls, and these stalls were raised two steps above the
pavement.
The young woman ran to the Port aux Vins, gliding over the slippery pavement, and knocking up against the passers-by, in her hurry to reach her destination.
She found Madame Raquin and Camille anxious and attentive; but she answered their questions sharply, saying she had been on a fools' errand, and had waited an hour on the
pavement
for an omnibus.
"I should like to believe that the police do their duty, and that I never brush against a murderer on the pavement."
The young woman would have preferred to remain in the damp obscurity of the arcade, for the exercise fatigued her, and it worried her to be on the arm of her husband, who dragged her along the pavement, stopping before the shop windows, expressing his astonishment, making reflections, and then falling into ridiculous spells of silence.
He recovered his calm, and began walking up and down the pavement, going and coming, in perfect peace of mind.
The young man could hear naught but his own footsteps resounding on the
pavement.
Outside, on the deserted pavement, he moved along with short steps in the fresh matutinal air.
For half an hour, he remained on the
pavement
in the Rue Mazarine, thinking and hesitating as to how he could divert himself.
From there, he began to examine the persons who issued from the passage on to the
pavement
of the Rue Mazarine.
She twisted her body about on the pavement, staring provokingly at the men who came along, and raising her skirt, which she clutched in a bunch in her hand, much higher than any respectable woman would have done, in order to display her lace-up boots and stockings.
While his wife basked in the sun on the pavement, trailing her skirt with nonchalance and impudence, shameless and unconcerned, he followed behind her, pale and shuddering, repeating that it was all over, that he would be unable to save himself and would be guillotined.
There she seated herself in the centre of a group of women and students, at one of the tables on the pavement, and familiarly shook hands with all this little crowd.
For a month Therese lived, like Laurent, on the
pavement
and in the cafes.
What was the learned man's astonishment, when that unaccountable person flung the money on the pavement, and requested in figurative terms to be allowed the pleasure of fighting him (Mr. Pickwick) for the amount!
Come on!' and the cabman dashed his hat upon the ground, with a reckless disregard of his own private property, and knocked Mr. Pickwick's spectacles off, and followed up the attack with a blow on Mr. Pickwick's nose, and another on Mr. Pickwick's chest, and a third in Mr. Snodgrass's eye, and a fourth, by way of variety, in Mr. Tupman's waistcoat, and then danced into the road, and then back again to the pavement, and finally dashed the whole temporary supply of breath out of Mr. Winkle's body; and all in half a dozen seconds.
'Bless my soul!' said Mr. Pickwick, as they stood upon the
pavement
while the coats were being put in.
'Twenty years ago, that
pavement
was worn with the footsteps of a mother and child, who, day by day, so surely as the morning came, presented themselves at the prison gate; often after a night of restless misery and anxious thoughts, were they there, a full hour too soon, and then the young mother turning meekly away, would lead the child to the old bridge, and raising him in her arms to show him the glistening water, tinted with the light of the morning's sun, and stirring with all the bustling preparations for business and pleasure that the river presented at that early hour, endeavour to interest his thoughts in the objects before him.
A dead silence pervaded the throng, broken only by the audible lamentations of the women, and the shuffling steps of the bearers on the stone
pavement.
But the guard has delivered at the corn-dealer's shop, the brown paper packet he took out of the little pouch which hangs over his shoulder by a leathern strap; and has seen the horses carefully put to; and has thrown on the
pavement
the saddle which was brought from London on the coach roof; and has assisted in the conference between the coachman and the hostler about the gray mare that hurt her off fore-leg last Tuesday; and he and Mr. Weller are all right behind, and the coachman is all right in front, and the old gentleman inside, who has kept the window down full two inches all this time, has pulled it up again, and the cloths are off, and they are all ready for starting, except the 'two stout gentlemen,' whom the coachman inquires after with some impatience.
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