I had now arrived at that particular point of my walk where four roads met--the road to Hampstead, along which I had returned, the road to Finchley, the road to West End, and the road back to London.
I was rather startled by your sudden appearance in the road; and I am, even now, quite unable to account for it."
I wanted you to show me the road, so I shouldn't go there by mistake."
From here he started along another road; then came back and tried another; but each time he found the way strange and decided it would not take them to the farm-house.
I must put her in the reverse and get back, even if we have to wait on the higher part of the road for a boat."
Already the road which had been clear a few minutes before was hidden.
Vasili Andreevich took his advice and turned to the right, but still there was no
road. They went on in that direction for some time.
Gals is nat'lly made contrary; and so, if you thinks they've gone one
road, it is sartin you'd better go t' other, and then you'll be sure to find 'em.
South of Gold Beach, climbing a narrow
road through the virgin forest, they heard from far above the jingle of bells.
This appeal seemed to produce some effect, for two of the fellows began to look here and there among the lumber, but half-heartedly, I thought, and with half an eye to their own danger all the time, while the rest stood irresolute on the
road.
"Hey!" cried the mender of
roads, reflectively; "that's true."
For, absurd as it may sound, with that look into those Arabian Nights' eyes, had come somewhere out of space an overwhelming intuition, nay, an unshakable conviction, that the woman who was already being rolled away from me down the
road in that Dis's car of a farmer's gig, was now and for ever and before all worlds the woman God had created for me, and that, unless I could be hers and she mine, there would be no home, no peace for either of us so long as we lived.