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One of them, asked by her the way to Miltoun's staircase, preceded her with shy ceremony, and when she had vanished up those dusty stairs, lingered on, hoping that she might find her visitee out, and be obliged to return and ask him the way back. But she did not come, and he went sadly away, disturbed to the very bottom of all that he owned in fee simple.
«J'y montai pour la premiere fois en 1760, et je ne crois pas qu'aucun naturaliste l'eût visitée avant moi; j'y retournai l'année suivante; j'y allai encore en 1767, et j'y montai enfin pour la dernière fois en 1781, afin de vérifier mes anciennes observations, et de me mettre en état d'en donner une description plus exacte.
The wizard calls on his intended victim and tells him what is about to happen, and you would naturally suppose that the visitee would take the visitor by the collar and the "bosom of his pants" and persuade him away from the premises, even if he did not go out and exercise upon him in the yard.
She looked at Miss Susie and smiled a most uncertain smile. And then for the first time was the import of the visit brought fully to the visitee. "So," Miss Susie exploded, "that's where you've been. Out of town! Humph! You ought to be ashamed of yourself." Zenie looked as though she would like to defend herself, but it was useless.
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