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I am desirous of again hearing the recital of some history full of religious instruction, and it behoves thee to gratify me. O lord of Earth, tell me if any householder has ever succeeded in conquering Mrityu by the practice of virtue. Do thou recite this to me with all details!"
Usually Kurt would have adored being able to sit alone with his mother and have all her attention directed towards him. This he could not enjoy now. Might not his mother ask him further details about his walk? So he said that he preferred to go to bed right away, and his mother understood that he was glad to get to rest after running about so ceaselessly.
Jimmie Dale hurried now, spurred on it seemed by a hot, insensate fury that raged within him there was still one other call to make that night still those remaining and minute details in the latter part of her letter, grim and ugly in their portent! It was close upon one o'clock in the morning when Jimmie Dale stopped again this time before a fashionable dwelling just off Central Park.
Our conversation now turned upon the details of our arrangements for the morrow. Talbot, I learned from my betrothed, had just arrived in town. I was to see him at once, and procure a carriage.
Now that the funeral was over, the womenkind, whose windows commanded a view of the house where the dead man had been lying, had taken their heads in and resumed their sweeping and washing, and knots of their husbands and fathers no longer stood in gaping conclave close to the very doorsill, rehearsing again and again the details of the distressing incident.
Twice I corrected a miscalculation of his, and before I had played an hour his hand was trembling with agitation. And I won. The details would be tiresome, but I won; and when, after six hours of play without an instant's rest, I rose exhausted from my chair and handed my brother the amount he had lost I pocketed a few thousands for myself in addition.
His 'Pliny' article had been despatched to The Wayside, and would possibly be accepted. But he did not trouble himself about this or other details; it was as though his mind could do nothing more than grasp the bald fact of impending destitution; with the steps towards that final stage he seemed to have little concern.
Not its details until I am more myself, and that voice" pointing to the next room "is not sounding in my ears. You shall hear all later; at least, as much as I know myself; I have never quite believed in it, and it has been to me throughout as a horrible dream." Indeed Mr. Carr seemed to be having no inconsiderable amount of trouble, to judge by the explosions of wrath on the part of the dowager.
And, as he passed the snapshot to the Pullman conductor, he went on with the details of the date and the number of the train. Robert Macklin in the meantime studied the picture carefully. He had a keen eye for faces, but when it came to pretty faces his memory was a veritable lion. He had talked a few moments with this very girl, and she had smiled at him.
But he had awakened before I had, and doubtless had had time to grasp, one by one, all these details whose fantastic ensemble staggered me. He laid his hand on my shoulder and gently pulled me back into the room. "You haven't seen anything yet," he said. "Look! Look!" "Morhange!" "Well, old man, what do you want me to do about it? Look!"
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