the house Mrs. Carey had dieddiein -- it was in a dreary , respectable street between Notting Hill Gate and High Street , Kensington -- Emma ledleadPhilip into the drawing-room .
The officer enquiredenquirefor Captain Eldridge : a person ledleadthem up several pair of dirty stairs , and pointingpointto a door which led to a miserable , small apartment , saidsaythat was the Captain ’s room , and retiredretire.
A few rods farther ledleadhim past the old black Presbyterian church , with its square tower , embowered in a stately grove ; past the Catholic church , with its many crosses , and a painted wooden figure of St. James in a recess beneath the gable ; and past the old Jefferson House , once the leading hotel of the town , in front of which political meetings had been held , and political speeches made , and political hard cider drunk , in the days of " Tippecanoe and Tyler too . "
He ledleada gigglinggiggleclass through the prisons , the charity bureaus , the employment agencies of Minneapolis and St. Paul .
The supplementary reading in sociology ledleadher to a book on village-improvement -- tree-planting , town pageants , girls ’ clubs .
All eyes were now turnedturnon Isabella , as she was ledleadforward by the auctioneer .
One night -- it was on the twentieth of March , 1888 -- I was returningreturnfrom a journeyjourneyto a patient ( for I had now returned to civil practice ) , when my way ledleadme through Baker Street .