Besides, we all cobblerather than cancel if we can.
Two days after her departure, however, Mr. Cobble called Quelch into his private office and told him that if he liked he might for once take holiday from the Friday to the Tuesday inclusive, and join his wife at the seaside.
Cobble & Clink, coal merchants, and he was about to carry out a desperate resolution.
Bet a halfpenny as it was a ballast cobble as was hev down.
Sometimes they throw pebbles and cobble stones, uncle," said the boy, evasively.
With their passing went something of love and hope, which left the Cobble a very lonely place for the three old people.
On the sides of the Cobble the bloodroot bloomed, with its snowy petals and heart of gold and root dripping with burning, bitter blood--frail flowers which the wind kisses and kills.
He relied upon three yoke of oxen and the Sedgwick temper; and on calm mornings could be heard discoursing to said oxen from the top of the Cobble in three different towns.
In a few days, the whole home-life on top of the Cobble centred around them.
Over beyond the Cobble was Dibble Hill, with its lost settlement of five deserted houses crumbling in the woods.
Our road had been some day paved with cobble stones.
Near by was a small artificial lake made by a dam of cobble stones, laid in cement across a ravine, which was built perhaps 50 years before, and yet the tracks of a child who had walked across before the cement was dry, were plainly seen.
The wagons left their loads and rattled back over the rough cobble stones and out on the muddy roads to the front again.
A division of cavalry dashed by, the horses' hoofs ringing sharply on the cobble stones, sabres clashing.
Allan described to them the old rambling house built half way up the wooded slope of Cobble Mountain.
There common as commoners do, As good else tocobble a shoe.
By the time the cobble got ashore, the fine clipper brig was nearly hull down.
Mr Hobkirk, before leaving with the pilot, gave the crew his benediction, and slipped into the cobble which waited to convey them ashore.
Before the anchor was let go, the pilotcobble came alongside.
We rode slowly together through the silent streets, our horses' hoofs ringing out sharp against the cobble stones, talking about such light matters as engage the mind of youth.
Down the hill we went like a whirlwind, the end of the wagon tongue, in front of the mules, sending the cobble rock flying in every direction.
Then one is involved in a labyrinth of narrow, dark lanes scrambling up the hill, running in and out among the houses, paved withcobble stones in some places, in others resolving themselves into flights of broken steps.
Fly-by-day bounced into the grass-grown drive of Cobble House.
In the drawing-room of Cobble Place all was calm, as indeed, Michael thought, why on earth should it not be?
The evening went the calm course of countless evenings at Cobble Place.
She was very anxious that Michael should come back after the wedding to Cobble Place, but he said he would rather wait until after Christmas.
In mid-May, after a visit of nearly a month, Michael left Cobble Place and went to stay at Plashers Mead.
You are a brute always to avoid my visits at Cobble Place," grumbled Nancy.
Mrs. Ross and Mrs. Carthew were delighted to see him, and he felt as he always felt at Cobble Place the persistent tranquillity which not the greatest inquietude of spirit could long withstand.
He thought he would pay an overdue visit to Cobble Place.
In the great silence two sounds broke the stillness from time to time; the deep satisfied grunt of a pig turning his fattest side to the cobble stones as he slept--and the long, low wail of a woman dying in great pain.
The pavement is of the roughest cobble stones, and the pigs are the scavengers.
One more turn down a narrow lane--darkest and dirtiest of all the lanes, the cobble stones only showing here and there above the universal black puddle.
Dirtier and dirtier grow the cobble stones as you go on.
Nor was he, and after a few minutes he and his mother were sitting in the drawing-room at Cobble Place, eating a tea that must have been very nearly the same as an unforgettable tea of nine years ago.
Home they would come drenched with dew, and arm in arm they would steal up the dusky garden to the rose-red lamps and twinkling golden candlelight of Cobble Place.
He could see the fantail pigeons of Cobble Place circling below.
At the same time something must be done to while away these warm summer evenings until at Basingstead Minor, where his mother had delightfully agreed to take a cottage for the summer, he and Alan could revive old days at Cobble Place.
Don't you come toCobble Place with that button on your hat.
However, at Cobble Place every minute was a lifetime of delight to Michael.
Then came a great surprize that took away nearly all the regrets he felt at leaving Cobble Place, for Miss Carthew leaned over and whispered that she was coming to live at Sixty-four.
I know that all these people at Cobble Place are all right," he groaned.
Chapter VI: The Enchanted Palace The dun pony ambled through the lanes to the village of Basingstead Minor where Mrs. Carthew and her four daughters lived in a house called Cobble Place.
She's going up to Cobble Place this morning to see Aunt Maud.
Alan, to be sure, returned unscathed, but as he had been resting in the comparatively cloistral seclusion of Cobble Place, Michael did not count his whole heart much honour to anything except his lack of opportunity.
August was a blaze of blue and green and gold that year, but everybody at Cobble Place was busy getting ready for the wedding and Michael and Alan had the countryside to themselves.
But one cannot call it an attack, if he says that cobblestones are rough when they are rough.
One does not say burgomaster of a dead man--one says Our Illustrious--Does not the wretch write about rough cobble stones?
The rickety old omnibus rattled and bumped noisily over the pointed cobble pavements, the tiny city merely seemed asleep behind its drawn blinds and its closed shutters.
My conscience would be much relieved if you could only manage to cobble him up again.
