Sentsendfor you on -- on another little matter ... particular private . ”
Sergeant Grospierre had been sentsendto the guillotine for allowingallowa whole family of aristos to slipslipout of the North Gate under his very nose .
Why he was sentsend, is , however , of little moment to this story , for he never made an investigation , nor , in fact , did he ever reach his destination .
I leftleavethe dark figure standing , still as a carved stone , in the heavy shadow of the trees , and , spurringspurmy horse ( sentsendme from home , the year before , by my cousin Percy ) , was soon at my house , -- a poor and rude one , but pleasantly set upon a slope of green turf , and girt with maize and the broad leaves of the tobacco .
Then they sentsendme to Mesopotamia , and I got woundedwoundfor the second time , and wentgointo hospital out there .
He plankedplankdown the usual editorial packet -- two or three rolls of proofs , a collection of newspapers , a bulky parcel of private correspondence sentsendon by the porter of Mrs Gildea 's London flat , some local letters and , finally , two square envelopes , with the remark , as he turnedturnaway on his round .
Arrivingarriveat the verge of the town , he dismounteddismount, and sendingsendthe servant forward with the horses , proceededproceedtoward the place , where , in the midst of an extensive pleasure ground , stood the mansion which contained the lovely Charlotte Temple .
CHAPTER I THERE IS NO ONE LEFT When Mary Lennox was sentsendto Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen .
-- It plantedplanta thorn in a till then insensible heart , and sentsenda new kind of a knight-errant into the world .
He sentsendme to Emanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen years old , where I resided three years , and applied myself close to my studies ; but the charge of maintaining me , although I had a very scanty allowance , being too great for a narrow fortune , I was boundbindapprentice to Mr. James Bates , an eminent surgeon in London , with whom I continued four years .
And invisible to me because it was so remote and small , flyingflyswiftly and steadily towards me across that incredible distance , drawingdrawnearer every minute by so many thousands of miles , camecomethe Thing they were sendingsendus , the Thing that was to bring so much struggle and calamity and death to the earth .
And yet , only this afternoon , talkingtalkover the whole matter she saidsayto me : " Once I triedtryto have a lover but I was so sick at the heart , so utterly worn out that I had to sendsendhim away . "