The messenger did as he was told, and set off running along the
wall of the Achaeans.
``The castle is large, the outer
walls standing on a pleasant ascent from the river, but much overtopt by a high hill, on which the town stands, situated at the head of a rich and magnificent vale, formed by an amphitheatre of woody hills, in which flows the gentle Don.
As though such a stone
wall really were a consolation, and really did contain some word of conciliation, simply because it is as true as twice two makes four.
For fifteen minutes they marched along the face of the
wall before they discovered a means of ingress.
What fate lay in store for them or whether already it had been meted out to them he could not even guess, nor where, within that forbidding
wall, they were incarcerated he could not know.
And the two companions, flat against their
wall, felt their hair stand on end with horror, for they now knew what the thousand noises meant.
He found himself in a narrow street that paralleled the
wall. Upon the opposite side rose buildings of an architecture unknown to him, yet strangely beautiful.
With javelins snatched from the
wall he wrought havoc among the foremost of the Okarians while we battled with the insensate metal that stood between our fellows and freedom.
With slow step and vacant face--moving as if she was walking in her sleep--she led the way to the papered
wall; knelt down at the skirting-board; and, taking out two small sharp nails, lifted up a long strip of the paper which had been detached from the plaster beneath.
There was one strange thing about this
wall of light.
When he got his head over the top of the
wall the Scarecrow said, "Oh, my!"
She rubbed another against the
wall: it burned brightly, and where the light fell on the
wall, there the
wall became transparent like a veil, so that she could see into the room.
