As Turan had passed through the gateway into the city and taken his unhindered way along the avenue, twenty warriors had entered the city and closed the
gate behind them, and then one had taken to the wall and followed along its summit in the rear of Turan, and another had followed him along the avenue, while a third had crossed the street and entered one of the buildings upon the opposite side.
"You were ever a strange man, to whom the
gates of distance are no bar.
Not even a single guard was visible before the great entrance
gate, nor in the gardens beyond, into which he could see, was there sign of the myriad life that pulses within the precincts of the royal estates of the red jeddaks.
The love of a strong man is ever a lure to a normal woman, and never more strongly did Dede feel the lure than now, looking across the closed
gate at Burning Daylight.
They were huddled upon the opposite side of the street at the left of the
gate, screaming at the tops of their voices and looking in the direction from which sounds of reinforcements were coming, as though urging on the men and lions that were already too close for the comfort of the fugitives.
Twice more in the darkness the bell at the great
gate sounded, and the irruption was repeated, and the grindstone whirled and spluttered.
But Mavra Kuzminichna stood at the closed
gate for some time with moist eyes, pensively swaying her head and feeling an unexpected flow of motherly tenderness and pity for the unknown young officer.
Down they charged after them, but the outlaws made good their lead, and soon got through the
gate and over the bridge which had been let down by Arthur-a-Bland.
A great peacock strutted proudly across the walk before them, and, as Richard ran, childlike, after it, Lady Maud hastened on to the little postern
gate which she quickly unlocked admitting her lover who had been waiting without.
But scarcely had I taken a hundred steps in the direction of the farther
gate when the sound of marching troops, the clank of metal, and the squealing of thoats just within the city apprised me of the fact that the Kaolians were already moving toward the other
gate.
"Now then," said John to the coachman, "God commands man to do all that is in his power to preserve his life; go, and drive to another
gate."
Peter asked her the way to the
gate, but she had such a large pea in her mouth that she could not answer.