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The next morning, he set out on foot to visit the paternal home, which he had not seen for twenty-five years. Everything was so changed that he scarcely recognized this country, where he had been born, and passed his youth. Yet the impression was so strong, that this man, tried by such varied, strange adventures, for a moment felt like retracing his steps.
She passed the full length of the main room, and then retracing her steps stopped before each door to listen, furtively trying each latch. All was silence, utter silence there, in which the throbbing of her own frightened heart seemed to her overwrought imagination to fill the ship with its thunderous alarm. One by one the doors opened before her touch, only to reveal empty interiors.
With drooping tail and a look so reproachful that it was fairly human, Captain Kidd slunk away, starting mournfully homeward. He sneaked back in a few minutes, however, and trailed his party as far as the door of the theatre. Somebody kicked at him and he fled down the street again, retracing the trail that had led him to the wagon.
For all of half an hour did the party lie protected. The boys began to grow restive. Tad's suspicions were being slowly aroused. "I'm going to do a little scouting," he told them, slipping from behind the pony and skulking along back of the tents. The moon was shining brightly now. He could see a long distance. Not a human being was in sight. "I thought so," he muttered, retracing his steps.
Retracing still our former steps, we reached a pond on the Bogan 3 1/2 miles short of our camp of May 12. There I fixed the camp in open ground and near good grass, with the intention of resting for two days; this repose having become absolutely necessary for the purpose of refreshing our exhausted cattle. August 25. Being near the route of Mr.
They were retracing their way down one of the narrowest and darkest canals, when the warning cry, "premi-o!" echoing round an unsuspected corner told them of an approaching gondola. "Ecco, mio fratello!" Vittorio exclaimed, answering, then, with his own sonorous call; and an instant later, the prow of his brother's gondola came stealing out of the shadow.
This compassion then gave rise to a feeling of anger, because so much haste had been shown in carrying the punishment into effect, and because no opportunity was left for relenting or retracing the steps of their passion.
Exposed to an outpouring of enmities and of incessant intrigues, taken between two fires, the extreme Right and the Left, M. de Villele no longer had the strength to govern. His ministry was about to come to an end. Later, in retracing in his journal this phase of his career, he wrote:
"They're not all potential Fengers." "Then let 'em stay what they are." Fanny's pencil was tracing and retracing a tortured and meaningless figure on the paper before her. "Tell me, do you remember a girl named Sarah Sapinsky?" "Never heard of her." "That's fitting. Sarah Sapinsky was a very pretty, very dissatisfied girl who was a slave to the bundle chute.
For a refuge, she turned into one of the city side streets, where she was quite alone. Unhappily, the street was of no length, and she soon came to the end of it. There was the choice of retracing her steps, or entering a strange street; and while she hesitated a troop of sheep went by, that made a piteous noise.
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