Some half hour later I happened to glanceglancecasually across the valley and was much surprisedsurpriseto notenotethree little dots in about the same place I had last seenseemy friend and his two pack animals .
He gotgetback home barely in season to help Jim , the small colored boy , sawseenext-day 's wood and splitsplitthe kindlings before supper -- at least he was there in time to telltellhis adventures to Jim while Jim did three-fourths of the work .
“ I AM so gladgladto seeseeyou , ” saidsaythe girl , who was in a state of spiritual starvation , and would have been glad to see the waiter if her cousin had permitted it .
When he had stood in the doorway with his soldier 's clothes on his back , and with the light of excitement and expectancy in his eyes almost defeating the glow of regret for the home bonds , he had seenseetwo tearstearleaving their trailstrailon his mother 's scarred cheeks .
Brothers and sisters were tom from each other , and mothers sawseetheir children for the last time on earth .
Without waiting to rise he whippedwhipa revolver from his pocket , firingfirepoint blank at the great mountain of muscle towering before him ; but , quick as he was , John Clayton was almost as quick , so that the bullet which was intended for the sailor 's heart lodgedlodgein the sailor 's leg instead , for Lord Greystoke had struckstrikedown the captain 's arm as he had seenseethe weapon flashflashin the sun .
He looked tired and troubled , but when he sawseeher he was so startledstartledthat he almost jumped back .
Lucy , too , was perplexed ; but she sawseethat they were in for what is known as “ quite a scene , ” and she had an odd feelingfeelthat whenever these ill-bred tourists spoke the contest widened and deepened till it dealt , not with rooms and views , but with -- well , with something quite different , whose existence she had not realized before .
Although the firefirewas burning up briskly , she was surprisedsurpriseto seeseethat her visitor still wore his hat and coat , standing with his back to her and staringstareout of the window at the falling snowsnowin the yard .
... “ Mr. Denham , mother , ” she saidsayaloud , for she sawseethat her mother had forgotten his name .
( when she thoughtthinkit over afterwards , it occurredoccurto her that she ought to have wondered at this , but at the time it all seemed quite natural ) ; but when the Rabbit actually TOOKtakeA WATCH OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET , and lookedlookat it , and then hurriedhurryon , Alice startedstartto her feet , for it flashedflashacross her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket , or a watch to take out of it , and burning with curiosity , she ranrunacross the field after it , and fortunately was just in time to seeseeit poppopdown a large rabbit-hole under the hedge .
Really , Judy , I never knew there was any spot in the world so entirely ugly ; and when I sawseethose rows and rows of pale , listless , blue-uniformed children , the whole dismal business suddenly struck me with such a shockshockthat I almost collapsed .
Whenever any one gets a good friend in this world , they 're the first to be took away , " saidsaythe weepingweephandmaiden , who naturally sawseeher own losslossin the most vivid light .
Then she walkedwalkoff the lawn to the meadow , whose corner to the right I can just seesee.
That night the cook 's sister hadhavea baby -- the cook , seeingseeindecision in my face , mademakeit twins on second thought -- and , to be short , by noon the next day the household staff was down to Liddy and myself .
All this Jem sworeswearhe had seensee, more by token that it was the very day he had been mole-catchingmoleon Squire Cass 's land , down by the old saw-pit .
After spendingspenda week in Cape Town , findingfindthat they overchargedoverchargeme at the hotel , and having seenseeeverything there was to see , including the botanical gardens , which seem to me likely to confer a great benefit on the country , and the new Houses of Parliament , which I expect will do nothing of the sort , I determineddetermineto go back to Natal by the _ Dunkeld _ , then lying at the docks waiting for the _ Edinburgh Castle _ due in from England .
Here , this thing opens up , I seesee, ” swingingswingeback the top of the carpet lounge .
It seldom was ; but he was glad , I think , to seeseeme .
During the oppositionoppositionof 1894 a great light was seenseeon the illuminatedilluminatepart of the disk , first at the Lick Observatory , then by Perrotin of Nice , and then by other observers .
This view of Marner 's personality was not without another ground than his pale face and unexampled eyes ; for Jem Rodney , the mole-catcher , averredaverthat one evening as he was returningreturnhomeward , he sawseeSilas Marner leaning against a stile with a heavy bag on his back , instead of resting the bag on the stile as a man in his senses would have done ; and that , on comingcomeup to him , he sawseethat Marner 's eyes were set like a dead man 's , and he spokespeakto him , and shookshakehim , and his limbs were stiff , and his hands clutchedclutchthe bag as if they 'd been made of iron ; but just as he had mademakeup his mind that the weaver was dead , he camecomeall right again , like , as you might say , in the winking of an eye , and saidsay" Good-night " , and walkedwalkoff .
When in a quarter of an hour he camecomedown , what his hostess sawsee, what she might have taken in with a vision kindly adjusted , was the lean , the slightly loose figure of a man of the middle height and something more perhaps than the middle age -- a man of five-and-fifty , whose most immediate signs were a marked bloodless brownness of face , a thick dark moustache , of characteristically American cut , growing strong and falling low , a head of hair still abundant but irregularly streaked with grey , and a nose of bold free prominence , the even line , the high finish , as it might have been called , of which , had a certain effect of mitigation .
From the back-window I can seeseea narrow brick-yard sloping down to the river-side , strewed with rain-butts and tubs .
And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus , who because he could not grasp the tormenting , mild image he sawseein the fountain , plungedplungeinto it and was drowneddrown.
A few moments later , Warwick sawseea colored policeman in the old constable 's place -- a stronger reminder than even the burned buildings that war had left its mark upon the old town , with which Time had dealt so tenderly .
“ For the very simple reason that I seeseethe dog himself on our very door-step , and there is the ringringof its owner .
He did not remove the serviette , but remained holdingholdit , as she sawseenow , with a brown gloved hand , and regardingregardher with his inscrutable blue glasses .
They turnedturninto another street and sawseebefore them lighted windows ; a low story-and-a-half house , with a wing builtbuildon at the right and a kitchen addition at the back , everything a little on the slant -- roofs , windows , and doors .
My uncle sawseeme staringstareand saidsayto me : “ Well , so your old friend is gone , you ’ll be sorry to hear . ”
‘ But you may believe it ; for Jane Wilson has seenseeher .
The campfirecampfireburst into a bright blazeblaze, and by its light Cameron sawseea man whose gray hair somehow did not seem to make him old , and whose stooped shoulders did not detract from an impression of rugged strength .
But some thoughtfull persons , who had seenseehim walkingwalkacross one of his fields on a certain December morning -- sunny and exceedingly mild -- might have regarded Gabriel Oak in other aspects than these .
But presently I lookedlookover my shoulder , and sawseehim goinggoon again towards the river , still hugginghughimself in both arms , and pickingpickhis way with his sore feet among the great stones dropped into the marshes here and there , for stepping-places when the rains were heavy or the tide was in .