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Vaguely comforted by this, I walked on to the New Street end of the Court and looked out. Here, too, a man a tall, thick-set man was loitering; and as he looked inquisitively into my face I turned and reëntered the Court, slowly retracing my steps.
There was not perhaps quite the same imaginativeness or zest; but there was more instinctive art, because the writer was retracing the same path, lodging at the same grave houses, encountering the same terrors, and yet representing everything as mirrored in a different quality of mind; the mind of a faithful woman, and of the boys and maidens who walked with her upon pilgrimage.
The letter does not stop here, but my quotation has already probably wearied most of my readers, though for my own part I am not ashamed to confess that I seldom tire of retracing with my own hand the ipsissima verba whereby great and truly notable gifts have been bestowed upon nations or Universities or even municipalities for the advancement of learning and the spread of science.
After the princess had passed by, and entered the baths, Aladdin remained some time astonished, and in a kind of ecstasy, retracing and imprinting the idea of so charming an object deeply in his mind.
One of the men pointed in their direction and even took a step forward, but his comrades stopped him and an animated discussion ensued, which finally resulted in their retracing their steps in the direction from which they had come. A sigh of relief went up from the boys and their grip on their weapons relaxed. "A mighty close shave," whispered Billy. "It was all of that," agreed Bart.
"Keep close to me and I will take care of you." Instead of retracing their steps, they kept ahead, and a short distance further on made an abrupt turn and suddenly came upon Dick Morris, seated upon the back of his mustang, with Thundergust, as Tom called him, standing near, and a third one visible in the background. "Whose is that?" asked the astonished boy. "We fetched him for you.
In the autumn of 1860 Madame Sand had a severe attack of typhoid fever. She was then on the point of beginning her little tale, La Famille de Germandre; "le roman de ma fièvre," she playfully terms it afterwards, when retracing the circumstances in a letter to her old friend François Rollinat: The day before that upon which I was suddenly taken very seriously ill, I had felt quite well.
But she remembered, too, and with a quaking heart, what the sculptor had mentioned of Hilda's retracing her steps towards the courtyard of the Palazzo Caffarelli in quest of Miriam herself.
The two friends departed, Shirley retracing his steps to the club where many things were to be studied and planned. His system of debit and credit records of facts known and needed, was one which brought finite results. As he smoked and pondered at his ease, a tapping on the study door aroused him from his vagrant speculations.
They left the maze accordingly, experiencing well-nigh the same ease in retracing their path as they had in coming in. 'Have you any idea, Humphreys asked, as they went towards the house, 'why my uncle kept that place so carefully locked? Cooper pulled up, and Humphreys felt that he must be on the brink of a revelation.
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