of their friends previous to their departure for America , and were now returningreturnto Portsmouth , where the troops waitedwaitorders for embarkation .
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 .
This view of Marner 's personality was not without another ground than his pale face and unexampled eyes ; for Jem Rodney , the mole-catcher , averredaverthat one evening as he was returningreturnhomeward , he sawseeSilas Marner leaning against a stile with a heavy bag on his back , instead of resting the bag on the stile as a man in his senses would have done ; and that , on comingcomeup to him , he sawseethat Marner 's eyes were set like a dead man 's , and he spokespeakto him , and shookshakehim , and his limbs were stiff , and his hands clutchedclutchthe bag as if they 'd been made of iron ; but just as he had mademakeup his mind that the weaver was dead , he camecomeall right again , like , as you might say , in the winking of an eye , and saidsay" Good-night " , and walkedwalkoff .
There was her weekly letter for THE IMPERIALIST to send off by to-morrow 's mail , and , moreover , she had to digest the reasons of the eminent journal for returningreturnto her an article that had not met with the editor 's approval -- the great Gibbs : a potent newspaper-factor in the British policy of the day .