Often, when it was dark night outside, with rain or snow falling, the place looked quite deserted and gloomy.
The folding-doors flew open, and light streamed from the altar through the church into the deserted square.
If she deserted the despised street and the little house, fortune would also desert her children.
"But last night the hideous little fellow went out of the town, quite alone, to the deserted churchyard.
And now all his friends deserted him, they could not walk with him in the streets; but one of them, who was very good-natured, sent him an old trunk with this message, "Pack up!
And now all his friends deserted him, they could not walk with him in the streets; but one of them, who was very good-natured, sent him an old trunk with this message, "Pack up!
" Then with a trembling heart, as if she were about to perform a wicked deed, she crept into the garden in the broad moonlight, and passed through the narrow walks and the deserted streets, till she reached the churchyard.
