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Winifred was due at four o'clock; he was to take her down to a conference in the Temple with Dreamer Q.C., and waiting for her he re-read the letter he had caused her to write the day of Dartie's departure, requiring him to return. "I have received your letter with the news that you have left me for ever and are on your way to Buenos Aires. It has naturally been a great shock.
It was on the Friday morning, when only three more papers remained, that Julian found Mr Carden's kind and hopeful letter lying on his breakfast-table at eight o'clock; he read it with a glow of pleasure, because he knew that he could rely thoroughly on the accuracy and truth of his old tutor's judgment, and as he read and re-read it, his hopes rose higher and higher.
Miss Molly was carrying out her programme with much precision, if indeed her attitude, prone along the table, could be described as sitting. Miss O'Donoghue's eyes and mouth grew round, as with the expression of an outraged cockatoo she read and re-read the tell-tale phrases. Here was a complication she had not calculated upon.
He then went on to tell in beautiful words the story of the wanderings of his hero, a tale that has now been read and re-read for nearly two thousand years, by all who have wished to call themselves educated; generations of school-boys, and schoolgirls too, have slowly made their way through the Latin of its twelve books.
These volumes have been read and re-read many times by my husband, and I am very sure that he would be pleased that they should be passed on to the sort of sea-faring man that he liked above all others. Fanny V. de G. Stevenson. Mrs. Stevenson also gave me a great directory of the Indian Ocean.
I only want to show you there is no use trying to show the self-satisfied Pharisees of the popular sect why, in spite of all their curses, men still go back to Rome. Lancelot read this, and re-read it; and smiled, but sadly and the more he read, the stronger its arguments seemed to him, and he rejoiced thereat.
Pacing the room, he took up a review, opened at a philosophical article, and tried to read. "Why does man exist? Why does anything exist? Manifestly because the operations of the energies of nature, under the particular group of conditions, compel it, just in the same way that they cause everything else to happen." He paused, and re-read the passage. Was it satire or burlesque?
I have your letters!" She sprang up with a little scream and stood over him with dilated eyes. Sir John leaned back in his chair, rubbed his hands, and watched her tortured face with evident satisfaction. "Yes, you may well scream," he said, "for I not only possess them, but I have read and re-read them.
"Her rash hand, in evil hour, Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate! Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost." To understand the tragedies of the present, it is essential that we re-read the tragedies of the past.
By fortunate chance I had lodgings with a kind and intelligent bookseller. I read and re-read his library during the three years I remained in the garrison and have forgotten nothing, even matters which have had no connection with my position.
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