He walked slowly past the gate and peered through a narrow gap in the cedar hedge. The girl was moving along a sanded walk, toward a gray, unpainted house, with a steep roof, broken by dormer windows.

Schumacher is beginning to pull away from the rest of the racers.

We condol’d with each other, and observ’d how wretchedly we look’d, all naked, except a small Clout about our Middles […]

To the chimney nook, / Having found admittance, / There I watch a pup / Playing with two kittens / (Playing round the fire, / Which of blazing turf is, / Roaring to the pot / Which bubbles with the murphies) […]