This he found in a dark hallway upon which the room opened--a flight of narrow stone steps leading downward toward
the street. Chance favored him so that he reached the shadows of the arcade without encountering any of the inmates of the house.
The vintner and Mr Haredale, unable to sit quietly listening to the noise without seeing what went on, had climbed to the roof of the house, and hiding behind a stack of chimneys, were looking cautiously down into
the street, almost hoping that after so many repulses the rioters would be foiled, when a great shout proclaimed that a parry were coming round the other way; and the dismal jingling of those accursed fetters warned them next moment that they too were led by Hugh.
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.
A whole regiment was drawn up in
the street, expecting an attack; for the townsmen appeared ready to throw themselves upon the bayonets."
When
the streets were slippery with frost or snow that was the worst of all for us horses.
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.
He could not conceive their maniacal desires to cross
the streets. Their madness smote him with eternal amazement.
A faint screaming reached Bert, and then a crowd of people ran out into
the street, one man limping and gesticulating awkwardly.
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.
Children, of all ages and sizes, were playing in
the street, and Saxon, by the open front window, was watching them and dreaming day dreams of her child soon to be.
He remembered the look that had lurked in the girl's eyes when they had met on
the streets and thought of the note she had written.
And the mercenary soldiers, waiting but the word to deluge
the street with blood, showed the only means by which obedience could be secured.