which I got of it from the train and the little I could walkwalkthrough the streets .
I am afraid you must have had a shocking walkwalk. ”
Arrivingarriveat the town late the previous evening , he had been drivendriveup from the steamboat in a carriage , from which he had been able to distinguishdistinguishonly the shadowy outlines of the houses along the street ; so that this morning walkwalkwas his first opportunity to see the town by daylight .
A two minutes ' walkwalkbrought Warwick -- the name he had registeredregisterunder , and as we shall call him -- to the market-house , the central feature of Patesville , from both the commercial and the picturesque points of view .
However , in my thoughtsthoughtI could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals , who durst venture to mountmountand walkwalkupon my body , while one of my hands was at liberty , without trembling at the very sight of so prodigious a creature as I must appear to them .
It is true that I had a country walkwalkon Thursday and camecomehome in a dreadful mess , but as I have changedchangemy clothes I ca n't imagine how you deducededuceit .
With the omnibuses and cabs still running in his head , and his body still tingling with his quick walkwalkalong the streets and in and out of traffic and foot-passengers , this drawing-room seemed very remote and still ; and the faces of the elderly people were mellowed , at some distance from each other , and had a bloom on them owing to the fact that the air in the drawing-room was thickenedthickenby blue grains of mistmist.
He graspedgraspthe prongs of the fork and heldholdthem before him with the end standing straight out , and then he began to walkwalkalong the stream bed .
About nine o'clock the moon was sufficiently bright for me to proceed on my way and I had no difficulty in followingfollowthe trail at a fast walkwalk, and in some places at a brisk trottrotuntil , about midnight , I reachedreachthe water hole where Powell had expected to camp .