Well , it is eighteen months or so ago since first I metmeetSir Henry Curtis and Captain Good .
I had been up elephant huntinghuntbeyond Bamangwato , and had metmeetwith bad luck .
When we all first metmeet, Captain Ashburnham , home on sick leaveleavefrom an India to which he was never to return , was thirty-three ; Mrs Ashburnham Leonora -- was thirty-one .
In ascendingascendto my room I was metmeetupon the stairs by a smart , pretty girl of nineteen , with a tidy , dumpy figure , a round face , bright , blooming cheeks , glossy , clustering curls , and little merry brown eyes .
His father , an ineffectual , inarticulate man with a taste for Byron and a habit of drowsing over the Encyclopedia Britannica , grew wealthy at thirty through the death of two elder brothers , successful Chicago brokers , and in the first flush of feelingfeelthat the world was his , wentgoto Bar Harbor and metmeetBeatrice O'Hara .
In her less important moments she returnedreturnto America , metmeetStephen Blaine and marriedmarryhim -- this almost entirely because she was a little bit weary , a little bit sad .
On one of the staircases , I metmeetthe physician of the family .
THE TURN OF THE SCREW The story had heldholdus , round the firefire, sufficiently breathlessbreathless, but except the obvious remarkremarkthat it was gruesome , as , on Christmas Eve in an old house , a strange tale should essentially be , I rememberrememberno comment uttered till somebody happened to saysaythat it was the only case he had metmeetin which such a visitationvisitationhad fallen on a child .
There were people on the ship with whom he had easily consortedconsort-- so far as ease could up to now be imputed to him -- and who for the most part plungedplungestraight into the current that set from the landing-stage to London ; there were others who had invitedinvitehim to a tryst at the inn and had even invokedinvokehis aid for a " look round " at the beauties of Liverpool ; but he had stolenstealaway from every one alike , had kept no appointment and renewed no acquaintance , had been indifferently aware of the number of persons who esteemed themselves fortunate in being , unlike himself , " metmeet, " and had even independently , unsociably , alone , without encounter or relapse and by mere quiet evasionevasion, givengivehis afternoon and evening to the immediate and the sensible .
After the young woman in the glass cage had heldholdup to him across her counter the pale-pink leaflet bearing his friend 's name , which she neatly pronouncedpronounce, he turnedturnaway to find himself , in the hall , facingfacea lady who metmeethis eyes as with an intention suddenly determined , and whose features -- not freshly young , not markedly fine , but on happy terms with each other -- camecomeback to him as from a recent vision .
" I 've metmeethim at Milrose -- where I used sometimes , a good while ago , to stay ; I had friends there who were friends of his , and I 've beenbeat his house .
Chapter 1 Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow comingcomedown along the road and this moocow that was comingcomedown along the road metmeeta nicens little boy named baby tuckoo ... His father toldtellhim that story : his father lookedlookat him through a glass : he had a hairy face .
It was only at dusk , when the place was ours , and after General Baird himself had foundfindthe dead body of Tippoo under a heap of the slain , that Herncastle and I metmeet.
It was in the court outside the treasury that my cousin and I metmeet, to enforce the laws of discipline on our own soldiers .
Presently he was metmeetby an elderly parson astride on a gray mare , who , as he roderide, hummedhuma wandering tune .
" Now , sir , begging your pardon ; we metmeetlast market-day on this road about this time , and I saidsay' Good night , ' and you made replyreply' _ Good night , Sir John _ , ' as now . "
“ I was the only man , i ' faith , that cared to leave its gates ; and I metmeetthe world -- the bachelor world -- flockingflockto them .
Wherefore , when at midday I metmeetgood Master Wickham rowingrowdown from Henricus to Jamestown , to offer his aid to Master Bucke in his press of business to-morrow , I gavegivethe good man Godspeed , and thought his a fruitful erranderrandand one pleasing to the Lord . ”