The board sidewalks were gray with trampled snow , but at two o'clock in the afternoon the shopkeepers , having comecomeback from dinnerdinner, were keeping well behind their frosty windows .
Marie was a stranger in the country , having comecomefrom Omaha with her mother to visit her uncle , Joe Tovesky .
They wentgointo the parlour my mother had comecomefrom , the firefirein the best room on the other side of the passage not being lighted -- not having been lighted , indeed , since my father ’s funeralfuneral; and when they were both seatedseat, and Miss Betsey said nothing , my mother , after vainly tryingtryto restrain herself , began to crycry.
When this was over , Mr. Woodhouse gratefully observedobserve, “ It is very kind of you , Mr. Knightley , to comecomeout at this late hour to callcallupon us .
PART I. FRIENDS OF CHILDHOOD I Dr. Howard Archie had just comecomeup from a game of poolpoolwith the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone .
In a few minutes he had comecomeabout into her seat .
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 .
He was married , and therefore taboo , but he had comecomefrom Boston , he had lived among poets and socialists and Jews and millionaire uplifters at the University Settlement in New York , and he had a beautiful white strong neck .
As I stand here , idly tappingtapthe windowpane , and lookinglookout through the rainrainat the dirty back-yard and the coalboats below , fragments of an old story floatfloatup before me , -- a story of this house into which I happened to comecometo-day .
here comecomemore crowds , pacingpacestraight for the water , and seemingly bound for a dive .
‘ It is very kind of you to comecomeround , ’ I saidsayby way of making a remark ; ‘ it must have been heavy walking in the snow . ’
Silently , in a dreamdreamshe had comecometo him after her deathdeath, her wasted body within its loose brown graveclothes givinggiveoff an odour of wax and rosewood , her breath , that had bentbentupon him , mute , reproachful , a faint odourodourof wetted ashes .
Her sister , Miss Watson , a tolerable slim old maid , with goggles on , had just comecometo live with her , and tooktakea set at me now with a spelling-book .
A sallow prisoner has comecomeup , in custody , for the half-dozenth time to make a personal application " to purge himself of his contempt , " which , being a solitary surviving executor who has fallen into a state of conglomeration about accounts of which it is not pretended that he had ever any knowledge , he is not at all likely ever to do .
What had comecomeas straight to him as a ball in a well-played game -- and caughtcatchmoreover not less neatly -- was just the air , in the person of his friend , of having seen and chosen , the air of achieved possession of those vague qualities and quantities that collectively figured to him as the advantage snatched from lucky chances .
Indeed , so little did it enter my head to even use the place in summer , that I submitted to weeks of seaside life with all its horrors every year ; until at last , in the early spring of last year , having comecomedown for the openingopenof the village school , and wanderingwanderout afterwards into the bare and desolate garden , I do n’t know what smell of wet earth or rotting leaves brought back my childhood with a rushrushand all the happy days I had spent in a garden .
He had comecomefrom Geneva the day before by the little steamer , to see his aunt , who was staying at the hotel -- Geneva having been for a long time his place of residence .
It was fifteen years since Silas Marner had first comecometo Raveloe ; he was then simply a pallid young man , with prominent short-sighted brown eyes , whose appearance would have had nothing strange for people of average culture and experience , but for the villagers near whom he had comecometo settle it had mysterious peculiarities which corresponded with the exceptional nature of his occupation , and his advent from an unknown region called " North ' ard " .
It was fifteen years since Silas Marner had first comecometo Raveloe ; he was then simply a pallid young man , with prominent short-sighted brown eyes , whose appearance would have had nothing strange for people of average culture and experience , but for the villagers near whom he had comecometo settle it had mysterious peculiarities which corresponded with the exceptional nature of his occupation , and his advent from an unknown region called " North ' ard " .
Love to Aunt Juley ; how good of her to comecomeand keepkeepyou company , but what a bore .
" But , Margaret dear , I mean we must n't be unpractical now that we 've comecometo facts .
As a matter of fact , they did comecomeon next day .
Mr. Denham had comecomein as Mr. Fortescue , the eminent novelist , reachedreachthe middle of a very long sentence .
Further , he probably disliked this kind of thing , and had comecomeout of curiosity , or because her father had invited him -- anyhow , he would not be easily combined with the rest .
It was hardly a year since they had comecometo live at Tipton Grange with their uncle , a man nearly sixty , of acquiescent temper , miscellaneous opinions , and uncertain vote .