Vocabulary from Readings 2, Unit 8 (12)

The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces.

The career of our play brought us through the dark muddy lanes behind the houses where we ran the gauntlet of the rough tribes from the cottages, to the back doors of the dark dripping gardens where odors arose from the ashpits, to the dark odorous stables where a coachman smoothed and combed the horse or shook music from the buckled harness.

I kept her brown figure always in my eye and, when we came near the point at which our ways diverged, I quickened my pace and passed her.

What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening! I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days.

What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening! I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days.

What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening! I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days.

I watched my master’s face pass from amiability to sternness; he hoped I was not beginning to idle.

She was an old garrulous woman, a pawnbroker’s widow, who collected used stamps for some pious purpose.

After an intolerable delay the train moved out of the station slowly.