He won obedience, not because his people were devoted to him, but because he had filled them with fear, and because they knew the consequences that would certainly follow if he were displeased in any way.
It was still light when Fred left the house.

He went out by a side entrance, reaching the road from the garden.

Vladimir had gone down the hill before him.

It was understood that he would manufacture some errand as an excuse for his appearance in the village.

A number of the people of the village were in the road near the great house; they stared at it curiously, and with hostile murmurs.