"It's not my business!" he exclaimed, and strode on quickly down one of the
passages.
The price of
passage is fixed at $1,250, currency, for each adult passenger.
"Yes, my dear," he said, "you're right; it is chilly in these
passages; and unless I go back to my fire, my fire'll go out -- won't it?
It was no use grumbling--so many fewer tartlets and apples were eaten and fives balls bought on that Saturday; and after locking-up, when the money would otherwise have been spent, consolation was carried to many a small boy by the sound of the night-fags shouting along the
passages, "Gentlemen sportsmen of the School-house; the lottery's going to be drawn in the hall." It was pleasant to be called a gentleman sportsman, also to have a chance of drawing a favourite horse.
Perhaps it would be as well to start out with a broad and rapid sketch of Nietzsche as a writer on Morals, Evolution, and Sociology, so that the reader may be prepared to pick out for himself, so to speak, all
passages in this work bearing in any way upon Nietzsche's views in those three important branches of knowledge.
At the back of the stage, Raoul had to stop before the inrush of the little troop of ballet-girls who blocked the
passage which he was trying to enter.
There was silence immediately--even among the people in the
passages without, and on the other staircases, who could neither see nor hear, but to whom, notwithstanding, the signal was conveyed with marvellous rapidity.
{14} I imagine this
passage to be a rejoinder to "Il." xxiii.
The crowd of diners and attendants that tumbled helter-skelter down the
passages divided into two groups.
The covered
passage opened at one end on one of the steep streets of the Adelphi, and at the other on a terrace overlooking the sunset-coloured river.
"It's an underground
passage all right," said Professor Bumper eagerly; "and not a natural one, either.
A ship may have left her port some time before; she may have been at sea, in the fullest sense of the phrase, for days; but, for all that, as long as the coast she was about to leave remained in sight, a southern-going ship of yesterday had not in the sailor's sense begun the enterprise of a
passage.