hearinghearhim callcallthe village rat-catcher by sayingsay, " Come hither , thou three-days-and-three-nights , thou , " alludingallude, as I afterwards learnedlearn, to the rat-catcher 's periods of intoxication ; but I will tell no more of such trifles .
Halsey boughtbuya car , of course , and I learnedlearnhow to tie over my bonnet a gray baize veil , and , after a time , never to stop to look at the dogs one has run down .
And that was all we could learnlearnof our guest .
After suppersuppershe gotgetout her book and learnedlearnme about Moses and the Bulrushers , and I was in a sweat to find out all about him ; but by and by she letletit out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time ; so then I did n't care no more about him , because I do n't take no stock in dead people .
Book First I Strether 's first questionquestion, when he reachedreachthe hotel , was about his friend ; yet on his learninglearnthat Waymarsh was apparently not to arrive till evening he was not wholly disconcerted .