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 .
Miss Betsey , lookinglookround the room , slowly and inquiringly , beganbeginon the other side , and carriedcarryher eyes on , like a Saracen ’s Head in a Dutch clock , until they reachedreachmy mother .
A letter , however , had lately reachedreachme in a distant part of the country -- a letter from him -- which , in its wildly importunate nature , had admitted of no other than a personal reply .
But when we had reachedreachour farthest point , just the day before we all had to turn around and start for home again , as the best of expeditions must in time , we three made a discoverydiscovery.
Poor Douglas , before his deathdeath-- when it was in sight -- committedcommitto me the manuscript that reachedreachhim on the third of these days and that , on the same spot , with immense effecteffect, he began to readreadto our hushed little circle on the night of the fourth .
Book First I Strether 's first questionquestion, when he reachedreachthe hotel , was about his friend ; yet on his learninglearnthat Waymarsh was apparently not to arrive till evening he was not wholly disconcerted .
When Miss Marjoribanks reachedreachhome her mother had been dead for twenty-four hours ; and her father was not at the door to receive her as she had expected , but by the bedside of a patient in extremity , who could not consent to go out of the world without the Doctor .
Mr. Denham had comecomein as Mr. Fortescue , the eminent novelist , reachedreachthe middle of a very long sentence .
That it had reachedreachher at all , said a good deal for Mrs Gildea 's fame as a freely paragraphed newspaper correspondent .
As soon as I reachedreachcomparatively level ground I urgedurgemy mount into a canter and continuedcontinuethis , where the going permitted , until , close upon dusk , I discovereddiscoverthe point where other tracks joined those of Powell .
About nine o'clock the moon was sufficiently bright for me to proceed on my way and I had no difficulty in followingfollowthe trail at a fast walkwalk, and in some places at a brisk trottrotuntil , about midnight , I reachedreachthe water hole where Powell had expected to camp .
When they reachedreachthe cottage , the two seatedseatthemselves with some appearance of fatigue upon the upper step of the porch , facingfaceeach other , each leaningleanagainst a supporting post .
Mrs. Pontellier reachedreachover for a palm-leaf fan that lay on the porch and began to fanfanherself , while Robert sent between his lips light puffspufffrom his cigarette .
The old lady reachedreachout her hand and feltfeelTom 's shirt , and saidsay: “ But you ai n't too warm now , though . ”
When he had reachedreachthe age of fourteen a friend of his late father , an agent for a foreign preserved milk firm , having givengivehim an opening as office-boy , he was discovereddiscoverone foggy afternoon , in his chief ’s absence , busy lettingletoff fireworks on the staircase .