For the main road was a boiling stream of people, a torrent of human beings rushing northward, one pressing on another
My brother noticed a pale grey smoke or haze rising among the houses in
front of them, and veiling the white facade of a terrace beyond the road
that appeared between the backs of the villas. Mrs. Elphinstone
suddenly cried out at a number of tongues of smoky red flame leaping up
above the houses in front of them against the hot, blue sky. The
tumultuous noise resolved itself now into the disorderly mingling of
many voices, the gride of many wheels, the creaking of waggons, and the
staccato of hoofs. The lane came round sharply not fifty yards from the
crossroads.
"Good heavens!" cried Mrs. Elphinstone. "What is this you are driving us into?"
My brother stopped.
"Good heavens!" cried Mrs. Elphinstone. "What is this you are driving us into?"
My brother stopped.

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