He had noticed openings in each roof, evidently giving ingress to the apartments below, and now, his advance cut off by those ahead of him, he decided to risk the chance of reaching the
street through the interior of one of the buildings.
However, in obedience to orders, he went into the "
street called Straight" (how he found his way into it, and after he did, how he ever found his way out of it again, are mysteries only to be accounted for by the fact that he was acting under Divine inspiration.) He found Paul and restored him, and ordained him a preacher; and from this old house we had hunted up in the
street which is miscalled Straight, he had started out on that bold missionary career which he prosecuted till his death.
Now they would be low and close, and he would distinguish in that steep, unusual perspective, windows, doors,
street and sky signs, people and the minutest details, and watch the enigmatical behaviour of crowds and clusters upon the roofs and in the
streets; then as they soared the details would shrink, the sides of
streets draw together, the view widen, the people cease to be significant.
Once more something whistled, but this time quite close, swooping downwards like a little bird; a flame flashed in the middle of the
street, something exploded, and the
street was shrouded in smoke.
Tiring of the slaughter, a great herding movement was begun by the soldiers, the intent of which was to drive the
street mobs, like cattle, into Lake Michigan.
But in this reckoning they were cruelly mistaken, for in half an hour, or less, as though the setting in of night had been their preconcerted signal, the rioters having previously, in small parties, prevented the lighting of the
street lamps, rose like a great sea; and that in so many places at once, and with such inconceivable fury, that those who had the direction of the troops knew not, at first, where to turn or what to do.
A little while after that a squad of police came into the station and began to clear the public off the platforms, and my brother went out into the
street again.
But his soldiers deemed that he had spoken the fatal mandate, "Fire!" The flash of their muskets lighted up the
streets, and the report rang loudly between the edifices.
All this time, the roll of the drum had been approaching through Cornhill, louder and deeper, till with reverberations from house to house, and the regular tramp of martial footsteps, it burst into the
street. A double rank of soldiers made their appearance, occupying the whole breadth of the passage, with shouldered matchlocks, and matches burning, so as to present a row of fires in the dusk.
Olsen if she had saved little Emil from the
street, but Mercedes cleared Mrs.
The dead have not that look--it partly restored me, and turning my head backward, I saw the smooth white expanse of sidewalk, unbroken from
street to
street.
The
street was small and what is called quiet, but it drove a thriving trade on the weekdays.
