him 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 .
Perhaps a wild rose might be like those colours and he rememberedrememberthe song about the wild rose blossoms on the little green place .
well did the tall stately girl of eighteen rememberrememberthe tearstearshed with such wild passion of griefgriefby the little girl of nine , as she hidhideher face under the bed-clothes , in that first night ; and how she was biddenbidnot to cry by the nurse , because it would disturb Miss Edith ; and how she had criedcryas bitterly , but more quietlyquietly, till her newly-seennewly, grand , pretty aunt had comecomesoftly upstairs with Mr. Hale to show him his little sleepingsleepdaughter .
I rememberrememberhim lookinglookround the cover and whistlingwhistleto himself as he did so , and then breakingbreakout in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards : " Fifteen men on the dead man 's chest -- Yo-ho-ho , and a bottle of rum ! "
In taking an occasional wisdom-giving stroll in Mrs. Todd ’s company , and in acting as business partner during her frequent absences , I found the July days fly fast , and it was not until I felt myself confrontedconfrontwith too great prideprideand pleasurepleasurein the displaydisplay, one night , of two dollars and twenty-seven cents which I had takentakein during the day , that I rememberedremembera long piece of writing , sadly belated now , which I was bound to do .
How well do I rememberrememberher parlour half filled with the organ which her husband had built , and scented with a withered apple or two from the _ pyrus japonica _ that grew outside the house ; the picture of the prize ox over the chimney-piece , which Mr Pontifex himself had painted ; the transparency of the man coming to show light to a coach upon a snowy night , also by Mr Pontifex ; the little old man and little old woman who told the weather ; the china shepherd and shepherdess ; the jars of feathery flowering grasses with a peacock 's feather or two among them to set them off , and the china bowls full of dead rose leaves dried with bay salt .
Not that I know much of ancient Danes , though I knew a modern Dane who did me out of ten pounds ; but I rememberrememberonce seeing a picture of some of those gentry , who , I take it , were a kind of white Zulus .
I rememberrememberhow I sat on the table there in the blackness , with patches of green and crimson swimmingswimbefore my eyes .
Near it in the field , I rememberremember, were three faint points of light , three telescopic stars infinitely remote , and all around it was the unfathomable darkness of empty space .
The clergyman , who had the air of one on a holiday , did not remember the ladies quite as clearly as they rememberedrememberhim .
I rememberrememberhim as if it were yesterday , as he came ploddingplodto the inn door , his sea-chest followingfollowbehind him in a hand-barrow -- a tall , strong , heavy , nut-brown man , his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat , his hands ragged and scarred , with black , broken nails , and the sabre cut across one cheek , a dirty , livid white .
I was presentpresentmyself , and I rememberrememberto have felt quite uncomfortable and confused , at a part of myself being disposed of in that way .
Another time I rememberrememberhearinghearhim 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 .
I rememberrememberthe time and the place -- the corner of the lawn , the shade of the great beeches and the long , hot summer afternoon .
In spite of all that has happened since , I still rememberrememberthat vigilvigilvery distinctly : the black and silent observatory , the shadowed lantern throwing a feeble glowglowupon the floor in the corner , the steady ticking of the clockwork of the telescope , the little slit in the roof -- an oblong profundity with the stardust streaked across it .
She rememberedrememberthe dark , dim look of the London nursery , presided over by an austere and ceremonious nurse , who was terribly particular about clean hands and torn frocks .
THE TURN OF THE SCREW The story had heldholdus , round the firefire, sufficiently breathlessbreathless, but except the obvious remarkremarkthat it was gruesome , as , on Christmas Eve in an old house , a strange tale should essentially be , I rememberrememberno comment uttered till somebody happened to saysaythat it was the only case he had metmeetin which such a visitationvisitationhad fallen on a child .
Part I 01 My Early Home The first place that I can well rememberrememberwas a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it .
Then he rememberedrememberthat he had a personal interest in this family , after all .
But then I rememberedrememberthat it had dieddieof paralysis and I feltfeelthat I too was smiling feebly as if to absolve the simoniac of his sin .
I rememberrememberthe appearance of his coat , which he patched himself upstairs in his room , and which , before the end , was nothing but patches .