No one made any objection to this plan, so the Sawhorse turned into the
path, which proved to be nearly as good as the one they had taken to get to the Fuddles.
Lured by the flowers and the shade and charmed by the songs of birds which invited to woodland
paths and green fields, his imagination fired by glimpses of golden domes and glittering palaces in the distance on either hand, the Young Politician said:
cried Dorothy, shrinking back as far as the narrow
path would let her.
That isn't the way home," laughed Pollyanna, still keeping to the main
path.
It is enough, for the present, that we trusted to an Indian guide to take us by a nearer, though blinder
path, and that we are deceived in his knowledge.
But if he did shut the window, it was because of the bend in the gravel
path, a dozen yards from the pavilion, and on account of the three oaks that are growing at that spot.
I am not afraid," answered Sonya's voice, and along the
path toward Nicholas came the crunching, whistling sound of Sonya's feet in her thin shoes.
The huntsman drew off the wolf's skin and went home with it; the grandmother ate the cake and drank the wine which Red-Cap had brought, and revived, but Red-Cap thought to herself: 'As long as I live, I will never by myself leave the
path, to run into the wood, when my mother has forbidden me to do so.
All the morning they trudged up the mountain
path and at noon Unc and Ojo sat on a fallen tree-trunk and ate the last of the bread which the old Munchkin had placed in his pocket.
Then they sighed: "O that there were heavenly
paths by which to steal into another existence and into happiness
I cannot let her watch for ME in vain, till I have done my best: then tell me where the Fire-Spirits dwell, and I will ask of them the flame that shall give life to the little child and such great happiness to the sad, lonely mother: tell me the
path, and let me go.
Godfrey had ceased to see the shadow of Dunsey across his
path; and the
path now lay straight forward to the accomplishment of his best, longest-cherished wishes.
I tiptoed down the
path and stooped behind the low wall which surrounded the stunted orchard.
A new-comer, a most monstrous animal, was coming down the
path.
Musing on the strangeness of life, and on the invariable ultimate triumph of the insignificant and small over the important and vast, illustrated in this instance by the easy substitution in the arbour of slugs for grandfathers, I went slowly round the next bend of the
path, and came to the broad walk along the south side of the high wall dividing the flower garden from the kitchen garden, in which sheltered position my father had had his choicest flowers.
