If the weight were unequal, a balance was struck by adding cobblestones on one side or the other, the patient donkey not minding in the least.

And a tree on the other side of the street was showering softly, softly, softly, yellow autumn leaves, until they covered the cobblestones all around.

After the first quarter of an hour, and when we had left the cobblestones of the city behind us, he drew a bundle of notes from his pocket, and by the flickering light of the lanthorn he counted out ten fifty-franc notes and handed them without another word to me.

It was desertedclosed shutters, empty houses and shops, not so much as the chance to buy a round, flat loaf of black breada shell of a town, with a few ravenous cats prowling about and forgotten chickens pecking the bare cobblestones.

The wind whistled blithely round the corners of the goodly cornstacks to the rear of the barton, and piped shrilly through their eaves; the monthly roses, still ablow, swung hither and thither in the fresh blast, strewing the cobblestones with their delicate petals.