There were doors all round the hall , but they were all locked ; and when Alice had been all the way down one side and up the other , tryingtryevery door , she walkedwalksadly down the middle , wonderingwonderhow she was ever to get out again .
She heard neither voices nor footsteps , and wonderedwonderif everybody had got well of the cholera and all the trouble was over .
This put my mother into a great passionpassion; she toldtellme she knew it would be to no purpose to speak to my father upon any such subject ; that he knew too well what was my interest to give his consent to anything so much for my hurt ; and that she wonderedwonderhow I could think of any such thing after the discoursediscourseI had had with my father , and such kind and tender expressionsexpressionas she knew my father had used to me ; and that , in short , if I would ruin myself , there was no help for me ; but I might depend I should never have their consent to it ; that for her part she would not have so much hand in my destruction ; and I should never have it to say that my mother was willing when my father was not .
Either the well was very deep , or she fell very slowly , for she had plenty of time as she wentgodown to looklookabout her and to wonderwonderwhat was going to happen next .
He wonderedwonderfrom which window Hamilton Rowan had thrownthrowhis hat on the ha-ha and had there been flowerbeds at that time under the windows .
She wonderedwonderalso who would take care of her now her Ayah was dead .
Was it so irreconcilable , Warwick wonderedwonder, as still to peal out the curfew bell , which at nine o'clock at night had clamorously warned all negroes , slave or free , that it was unlawful for them to be abroad after that hour , under penalty of imprisonment or whipping ?
Katharine stirredstirher tea , and seemed to speculate , so Denham thoughtthink, upon the duty of filling somebody else ’s cup , but she was really wonderingwonderhow she was going to keep this strange young man in harmony with the rest .
I wonderwonderif Colin McKeith could give me an idea .... .
But altogether all that did not amount to much either in the way of gain or prospects ; so that when Winnie announced her engagement to Mr Verloc her mother could not help wonderingwonder, with a sighsighand a glanceglancetowards the scullery , what would become of poor Stephen now .
" I wonderwonderwhether the little scamp will prove honest , " saidsayMr. Greyson to himself , as he walkedwalkaway .
Let me see : that would be four thousand miles down , I think -- ’ ( for , you see , Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom , and though this was not a VERY good opportunity for showing off her knowledge , as there was no one to listen to her , still it was good practice to say it over ) ‘ -- yes , that ’s about the right distance -- but then I wonderwonderwhat Latitude or Longitude I ’ve gotgetto ? ’
He wonderedwonderhow another man would have handled this situation .
I wonderwonderwhat sort of a history it will be when I have finished it , if ever I come to the end of the trip !
He wonderedwonderwhether he had gone too far , but he decideddecidethat he must advance farther , rather than retreat .
We hadhaveit from him again before the firefirein the hall , as we had had our mild wonderswonderof the previous night .
She wonderedwonderif five o'clock would find a droop to the set of those young shoulders ; if the springy young legs in their absurdly scant modish trousers would have lost some of their elasticity ; if the buoyant step in the flat-heeled shoes would not drag a little .
She was wonderingwonderwhether the English mail expected to-day would bring her troublesome editorial instructions .
While the objects around me -- while the carvings of the ceilings , the sombre tapestries of the walls , the ebon blackness of the floors , and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattledrattleas I strodestride, were but matters to which , or to such as which , I had been accustomed from my infancy -- while I hesitatedhesitatenot to acknowledge how familiar was all this -- I still wonderedwonderto find how unfamiliar were the fancies which ordinary images were stirringstirup .
When I looklookback over the months I spent at Sunnyside , I wonderwonderthat I survived at all .
‘ I wonderwonderif I shall fall right THROUGH the earth !
I wonderwonderhow they will actually cease and come to an end as drawings , and into what new phases of being they will then enter .
CHAPTER 1 The Rassendylls -- With a Word on the Elphbergs “ I wonderwonderwhen in the world you ’re going to do anything , Rudolf ? ” saidsaymy brother ’s wife .