The first need, however, was to discover a
street paralleling the northern wall along which he could make his way in the direction of the gate he had seen from the forest.
He headed two attacks upon the Bank, helped to break open the Toll- houses on Blackfriars Bridge, and cast the money into the
street: fired two of the prisons with his own hand: was here, and there, and everywhere--always foremost--always active--striking at the soldiers, cheering on the crowd, making his horse's iron music heard through all the yell and uproar: but never hurt or stopped.
He went to bed a little after midnight, and was awakened from lurid dreams in the small hours of Monday by the sound of door knockers, feet running in the
street, distant drumming, and a clamour of bells.
I do not love to hear of mobs and broils in the
street. These things were unworthy of the people when they had such a great object to accomplish."
Some reported that, when the troops had gone from King
Street, and the people were thronging tumultuously in their rear, Bradstreet, the aged Governor, was seen to embrace a form more aged than his own.
She remembered the Friday night, after a City Hall band concert, when he had taken her and two other girls to Tony's Tamale Grotto on Thirteenth
street. And after that they had all gone to Pabst's Cafe and drunk a glass of beer before they went home.
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.
The
streets are extravagantly wide, the paved squares are prodigious, the houses are huge and handsome, and compacted into uniform blocks that stretch away as straight as an arrow, into the distance.
Any where else we would have been assailed by a clamorous army of donkey- drivers, guides, peddlers and beggars--but in Damascus they so hate the very sight of a foreign Christian that they want no intercourse whatever with him; only a year or two ago, his person was not always safe in Damascus
streets. It is the most fanatical Mohammedan purgatory out of Arabia.
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.
One day he and another gentleman took our cab; they stopped at a shop in R
Street, and while his friend went in he stood at the door.
He menaced mankind at the intersections of
streets.
Repeatedly during our ascent of the hill my eyes, I thought, had traversed the whole reach of that sidewalk, from
street to
street.
Two doors from one corner, on the left hand going east the line was broken by the entry of a court; and just at that point a certain sinister block of building thrust forward its gable on the
street. It was two storeys high; showed no window, nothing but a door on the lower storey and a blind forehead of discoloured wall on the upper; and bore in every feature, the marks of prolonged and sordid negligence.
Wearing a waistcoat over his cotton shirt, Ferapontov was standing before his shop which opened onto the
street. On seeing Alpatych he went up to him.
