As I passedpassthe well-remembered door , which must always be associated in my mind with my wooing , and with the dark incidents of the Study in Scarlet , I was seized with a keen desiredesireto see Holmes again , and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers .
He passedpass, under this unsought protectionprotectionand before he had so much as gone up to his room , into the garden of the hotel , and at the end of ten minutes had agreedagreeto meet there again , as soon as he should have made himself tidy , the dispenser of such good assurances .
Then all his eagerness passedpassaway and he felt his face quite cool .
The future of the Welsh puddler passingpassjust now is not so pleasant .
Scarcely had he done so when heavy stepsstep, with accompaniment of clinkingclinkspurs , passedpassthrough the door below into the cabin .
His little blacking-box was ready for use , and he lookedlooksharply in the faces of all who passedpass, addressingaddresseach with , " Shine yer boots , sir ? "
Knowing she would not be allowed to keep the child much longer , the woman kissedkisshim again ; and she passedpassher hand down his body till she camecometo his feet ; she heldholdthe right foot in her hand and feltfeelthe five small toes ; and then slowly passedpassher hand over the left one .
The fiend pinningpindown the thief 's pack behind him , I passedpassover quickly : it was an object of terror .
His rooms were brilliantly lit , and , even as I lookedlookup , I sawseehis tall , spare figure passpasstwice in a dark silhouette against the blind .
A gush of tearstearat her mother 's farewell kisskiss, a touchtouchin her throat when the cars clackedclackby the flour mill where her father worked by the day , a pathetic sighsighas the familiar green environs of the village passedpassin review , and the threads which bound her so lightly to girlhood and home were irretrievably brokenbreak.
During the whole of a dull , dark , and soundless day in the autumn of the year , when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens , I had been passingpassalone , on horseback , through a singularly dreary tract of country ; and at length foundfindmyself , as the shades of the evening drew on , within view of the melancholy House of Usher .
“ There was more passingpassthan usual , ” I saidsay; “ but I was busybusyin the fields , and did not attend .
She tooktakedown a jar from one of the shelves as she passedpass; it was labelled ‘ ORANGE MARMALADE ’ , but to her great disappointmentdisappointmentit was empty : she did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody , so managed to putputit into one of the cupboards as she fellfallpast it .
At that time he thought on her only as a very lovely child , she being then only thirteen ; but the improvement two years had made in her person , and the blushblushof recollectionrecollectionwhich suffused her cheeks as she passedpass, awakened in his bosom new and pleasing ideasidea.
Its pendulum swungswingto and fro with a dull , heavy , monotonous clangclang; and when the minute-hand mademakethe circuit of the face , and the hour was to be stricken , there came from the brazen lungs of the clock a soundsoundwhich was clear and loud and deep and exceedingly musical , but of so peculiar a note and emphasis that , at each lapse of an hour , the musicians of the orchestra were constrainedconstrainto pausepause, momentarily , in their performanceperformance, to harkenharkento the soundsound; and thus the waltzers perforce ceasedceasetheir evolutionsevolution; and there was a brief disconcertdisconcertof the whole gay company ; and , while the chimes of the clock yet rangrang, it was observedobservethat the giddiest grew palepale, and the more aged and sedate passedpasstheir hands over their brows as if in confused revery or meditation .
I confessconfessI was often temptedtempt, while they were passingpassbackwards and forwards on my body , to seize forty or fifty of the first that came in my reach , and dash them against the ground .