Archer too would have preferred to escape their friends' hospitality: in conformity with the family tradition he had always travelled as a
sight-seer and looker-on, affecting a haughty unconsciousness of the presence of his fellow- beings.
Since early morning- despite an injunction not to approach the picket line- the officers had been unable to keep
sight-seers away.
And strange, too, it is to stand on Primrose Hill, as I did but a day before writing this last chapter, to see the great province of houses, dim and blue through the haze of the smoke and mist, vanishing at last into the vague lower sky, to see the people walking to and fro among the flower beds on the hill, to see the
sight-seers about the Mar- tian machine that stands there still, to hear the tumult of playing children, and to recall the time when I saw it all bright and clear-cut, hard and silent, under the dawn of that last great day.
For now that the schools are gone, and the regular
sight-seers exhausted,' said Mrs Jarley, 'we come to the General Public, and they want stimulating.
When in luck he was able to make a tidy sum; but the shabbiness of his clothes at last frightened the
sight-seers, and he could not find people adventurous enough to trust themselves to him.
It's a pity he should break his neck himself, and disappoint the
sight-seers.
This was no time or place for explanation or discourse: we had already stood long enough to excite the wonder of the village
sight-seers, and perhaps the wrath of the attendant bridal party; though, of course, all this passed in a much shorter time than I have taken to relate, or even than you will take to read it.
Keller and Burdovsky looked wonderfully correct in their dress- coats and white kid gloves, although Keller caused the bridegroom some alarm by his undisguisedly hostile glances at the gathering crowd of
sight-seers outside.
Above the lines thus formed rose on one side the amphitheatres with their tiers of crowded benches, and on the other the long rows of carriages with the
sight-seers inside and out.
The door had opened as I turned, and an unmistakable detective had entered with two more
sight-seers like ourselves.
Thus, tourist may be a
sight-seer, holiday-maker, religious pilgrim, student or any traveler, who is in the capacity of a consumer and not a producer.
Denayer, however, is staying longer than the usual
sight-seer, for he came to Qatar as the executive chef of the newly opened Panorama Restaurant at The Torch Doha.
