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He has no difficulty whatever in retracing the path of history, back to the days of Michael Paleologus or Timour the Tartar, and describing the viands set upon their tables and the thoughts that may have entered their brains; while in events of the present day he finds no more trouble in describing circumstantially the last moments of a traveller dying alone at the North Pole or in the midst of the most trackless waste of Sahara.
On leaving Sibyll, and retracing his steps towards the more crowded quarter of the space, he was agreeably surprised by encountering Nicholas Alwyn, escorted in triumph by a legion of roaring apprentices from the victory he had just obtained over six competitors at the quarter-staff.
John Westover had everything on earth given to her that could possibly be presented at a wedding; nevertheless the list was gone through again bravely, Polly retracing her steps two or three times to read the items over for her listener's slow digestion.
Then came relapses, discouragements, the bitter retracing of steps. On Christmas Day he opened his eyes, and said to the grave, thin woman who sat with her hand in his: "Margaret!" He slipped off again too quickly to know that she had broken into tears and fallen on her knees beside him.
There could be no mistaking the red Lang-Yao whose brilliant tints kindled in the candle-glow. He lifted it tenderly, verifying the various points of Muriel's description, set it down on the floor and locked the safe. He was retracing his steps toward the conservatory and had reached the main hall when the creaking of the stairsteps brought him up with a start.
According to these opinions, America could entitle herself to peace, only by retracing the steps she had taken, and yielding to the demands of her justly offended but generous and magnanimous ally.
"Retracing our steps, we sought the plantation of Mr. Potter a very different one from that of Mr. Gibbons, as all was finish and neatness; a fine mansion well stored with books, and some fine oaks, some of which Mr. Potter had planted himself. "Mr.
Manual was slowly retracing his steps to the skirts of the wood, when he suddenly turned, and asked: "Shall I post a small picket, a mere corporal's guard, in the open ground in front, and make a chain of sentinels to our works?" "We have no works we want no sentinels," returned his impatient commander; "our security is only to be found in secrecy.
The captain angrily wheeled his horse and re-entered the stream. "If they don't get away, it won't be our fault," was his ungracious comment; "we have done little else than throw away our chances from the first." The guide made no response, and the next minute the four were retracing their course, their animals at a walk, and all scanning the rocks on either hand as they passed them.
Then the thought struck her that by means of these almanacs she could recall all that she had ever done, and giving way to the idea, she at once devoted herself to the task of retracing the past. She pinned all the cards, which had grown yellow with age, up on the tapestry, and then passed hours before one or other of them, thinking, "What did I do in that month?"
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