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Now let me endeavour to show you the different steps in my reasoning. To begin at the beginning. I approached the house, as you know, on foot, and with my mind entirely free from all impressions. I naturally began by examining the roadway, and there, as I have already explained to you, I saw clearly the marks of a cab, which, I ascertained by inquiry, must have been there during the night.
"Not there?" fell from her lips in a frozen monotone as her eyes grew fixed upon the faces before her and her hand went groping around for some support. Mr. Hammersmith approached with a chair. "Sit," he whispered. Then, as she sank slowly into an attitude of repose, he added gently, "You shall have every consideration.
During one of these, desiring a confederate from the lookers-on, he approached a slender and refined-looking man, who was following the necromancer's proceedings with as much interest as anybody.
Conscious that the common people were in general unfavourable to the cause he had espoused, yet desirous, if possible, to procure a horse and guide to Penrith, where he hoped to find the rear, if not the main body, of the Chevalier's army, he approached the alehouse of the place. There was a great noise within; he paused to listen.
The difficult extreme, in fiction, is the dramatic rule absolute and unmitigated; having reached it from the other end, having begun with the pictorial summary and proceeded from thence to drama, we face the same stages reversed. And it is now, I think, that we best appreciate the liberties taken with the resources of the novelist by Balzac. His is a case that should be approached indirectly.
As Sir Henry approached, they evinced involuntary confusion; and the vetturino -at once unmanned fell on his knees, and commenced a confession. They were dragged into the inn, and the officers of justice were sent for. Sir Henry Delme's anxious regards were now directed to his brother. George had taken a seat near the corpse; and was sternly regarding it with fixed, steady, and unflinching gaze.
He said, "I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men who are equally certain that they represent the divine will. I am sure that either the one or the other class is mistaken in that belief, and perhaps in some respects both.
He approached this with unusual delicacy: it needed bravery to look into the mother's eyes, and tell the story. He did not know how dramatically he told it how he etched it without a waste word. When he came to that scene in the Fort, the three men sitting, targets for his bullets, he softened the details greatly.
As they approached Phobos they saw that half the little disc was brilliantly lighted by the same rays of the sun which were glowing on the rapidly increasing crescent of Mars beneath them.
This little spirit of temper was somewhat of a relief to Mr. Utterson. He gave his friend a few seconds to recover his composure, and then approached the question he had come to put. "Did you ever come across a protege of his one Hyde?" he asked. "Hyde?" repeated Lanyon. "No. Never heard of him. Since my time."
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