briskly through her mind , undeterred by the reflectionreflectionthat tears were as much out of the Doctor 's way as embraces ; and in this mood she spedspeedswiftly along in the inspirationinspirationof her first sorrowsorrow, as she imaginedimagine, but in reality to suffer her first disappointment , which was of a less soothing character than that mild and manageable grief .
Even envious Miss Briggs never spoke ill of her ; high and mighty Miss Saltire ( Lord Dexter 's granddaughter ) allowed that her figure was genteel ; and as for Miss Swartz , the rich woolly-haired mulatto from St. Kitt 's , on the day Amelia wentgoaway , she was in such a passionpassionof tearstearthat they were obliged to sendsendfor Dr. Floss , and half tipsifytipsifyher with salvolatile .
Either the well was very deep , or she fell very slowly , for she had plenty of time as she wentgodown to looklookabout her and to wonderwonderwhat was going to happen next .
The market carts were goinggothrough the gates ; there was one laden with casks , and drivendriveby an old man , with a boy beside him .
Alexandra wentgointo the store to have her purchases packed in the egg-boxes , and to get warm before she set out on her long cold drive .
Grospierre was a bit drunk , but he thought himself very clever ; he lookedlookinto the casks -- most of them , at least -- and saw they were empty , and letletthe cart gogothrough . ”
When he putputher hand back under the quilt he wentgoover to one of the windows -- they were both tight shut -- and liftedliftit a little way .
As he wentgoout at the door he saidsay: “ Siddy , I 'll lick you for that . ”
There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door , so she wentgoback to the table , half hoping she might find another key on it , or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes : this time she foundfinda little bottle on it , [ ‘ which certainly was not here before , ’ saidsayAlice , ) and round the neck of the bottle was a paper label , with the words ‘ DRINK ME ’ beautifully printed on it in large letters .
Finally she wentgodown on her knees and imploredimploreme not to go ; at least to wait a day or two before starting .
She wentgoto the open door and stoodstandin it and lookedlookout among the tomato vines and “ jimpson ” weeds that constituted the garden .
" Being natural is simply a pose , and the most irritating pose I know , " criedcryLord Henry , laughinglaugh; and the two young men wentgoout into the garden together and ensconcedensconcethemselves on a long bamboo seat that stood in the shade of a tall laurel bush .
The weddingweddingover , and the bride-people gonego, her father and herself were left to dine together , with no prospect of a third to cheer a long evening .
While Newton wentgo( not without a muttered grumblinggrumble) to undo the shawls , which had already been exhibitedexhibitfour or five times that day , Margaret lookedlookround upon the nursery ; the first room in that house with which she had become familiarfamiliarnine years ago , when she was broughtbring, all untamed from the forest , to share the home , the play , and the lessons of her cousin Edith .
The doctor tooktakeup the lamp from the kitchen table and unceremoniously wentgointo the wing room .
Margaret wentgoup into the old nursery at the very top of the house , where Newton was busy gettinggetup some laces which were required for the wedding .
About an hour afterwards he wentgoupstairs to the drawing-room , where Miss Marjoribanks was waitingwaitfor him , much less at ease than she had expected to be .
And she wentgoslowly away with her little girl , whilst her son stood watchingwatchher , cutcutto the heart to let her go , and yet unable to leave the wakes .
I followedfollowhim in , and I rememberrememberobservingobservethe contrast the neat , bright doctor , with his powder as white as snow and his bright , black eyes and pleasant manners , made with the coltish country folk , and above all , with that filthy , heavy , bleared scarecrow of a pirate of ours , sitting , far gonegoin rum , with his arms on the table .
Then , he heldholdme by the arms , in an upright position on the top of the stone , and wentgoon in these fearful terms : -- “ You bring me , to-morrow morning early , that file and them wittles .
When Mrs. Hall wentgoto clear away the stranger 's lunch , her ideaideathat his mouth must also have been cut or disfigured in the accident she supposed him to have suffered , was confirmedconfirm, for he was smokingsmokea pipe , and all the time that she was in the room he never loosened the silk muffler he had wrapped round the lower part of his face to putputthe mouthpiece to his lips .
On my sayingsaythat I did not understand , she wentgoon : " It is the eve of St. George 's Day .
I knew the next day that a letter containing the key had , by the first post , gonegooff to his London apartments ; but in spite of -- or perhaps just on account of -- the eventual diffusion of this knowledge we quite let him alone till after dinnerdinner, till such an hour of the evening , in fact , as might best accord with the kind of emotion on which our hopes were fixed .
He putputhis arm about my shoulder , for we were old friends , and together we wentgoup the green bank to the house , and , when I had broughtbringhim a pipe , satsitdown side by side upon the doorstep .
He was miserable , though he did not know it , because he had letlether gogoalone .
and it is such a good joke , too , that you should have gonegothis morning and never said a word about it till now . ”
Trail , trail , wentgoher long dress over the sopping grass , and she camecomeback with her hands full of the hay that was cutcutyesterday -- I suppose for rabbits or something , as she kept on smellingsmellit .
Then they sentsendme to Mesopotamia , and I got woundedwoundfor the second time , and wentgointo hospital out there .
Dr. Livesey camecomelate one afternoon to see the patient , took a bit of dinnerdinnerfrom my mother , and wentgointo the parlour to smoke a pipe until his horse should come down from the hamlet , for we had no stabling at the old Benbow .