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Updated: May 17, 2025
And now, here's Selah Briggs ugh! how could I ever have gone and entangled myself in my foolish days with a young woman burdened by such a cognomen! here's Selah Briggs must needs run away from Hastings, and try to hunt me up on her own account in London. If I did, Selah'd be tracking me to earth here in Oxford, and a nice mess that'd make of it!
Messengers crossing and re-crossing the Bhutan frontier were increasing in numbers and frequency; and he had at length succeeded in tracking some of them to a destination that first gave him a clue to the seat and identity of the organisers of the conspiracy in Bengal.
The Indians first, of course, since it came from the quarter towards which all were travelling, and therefore in the teeth of pursuers as pursued. But the trackers were not called upon to sustain its shock, as those they were tracking up.
I might yet once more see the Hall under the ray of her star. There was the stile before me the very fields through which I had hurried, blind, deaf, distracted with a revengeful fury tracking and scourging me, on the morning I fled from Thornfield: ere I well knew what course I had resolved to take, I was in the midst of them. How fast I walked! How I ran sometimes!
"How strange!" she panted, "that this idea of fortune telling should have come to me as a means of gaining my living! I was driven to do something. And that he should have been the very first patron to come to me he, of all others! He is tracking me down because I maimed the girl whom he is so soon to wed yes, tracking me down to throw me into prison and yet he was once my lover!
Having the honor of our family at heart, I was about to administer a little wholesome correction, when he reminded me he had been instrumental in tracking Miss Bassett, and thereby rescuing her: upon this I was, naturally, mollified, and sent him about his business, hoping to have seen the last of him at Highmore. "This morning my door is covered with opprobrious epithets, and as Mr.
He spent some moments tracking to and fro in the dew before he settled on the centre of the lawn as the most suitable spot for the act which he contemplated, for thence he would be able to turn his last looks towards Aurora's bedroom-window without interference from foliage.
Does it not require rare faculties to play such a part, to enable one through thirty years to seduce women; to constrain one to employ great gifts in an underhand sphere only, inciting a people to rebel, tracking the secrets of austere politicians, and triumphing nowhere but in boudoirs and on the back-stairs of cabinets?
For, first, he fell in with the track of a patrol, and walked in it for some hundred yards, although it lay out of his direction. And this spirited him up; at least he had confused his trail; for he was still possessed with the idea of people tracking him all about Paris over the snow, and collaring him next morning before he was awake. The other matter affected him quite differently.
Indeed, the district between it and Berwick continued to be ravaged by moss-troopers long after the union of the Crowns. The gentry lived in their strong Peel castles; even the larger farm-houses were fortified; and bloodhounds were trained for the purpose of tracking the cattle-reavers to their retreats in the hills.
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