My mother was sitting by the firefire, but poorly in health , and very low in spirits , lookinglookat it through her tearstear, and despondingdespondheavily about herself and the fatherless little stranger , who was already welcomedwelcomeby some grosses of prophetic pins , in a drawer upstairs , to a world not at all excited on the subject of his arrivalarrival; my mother , I say , was sitting by the firefire, that bright , windy March afternoon , very timid and sad , and very doubtful of ever coming alive out of the trial that was before her , when , liftinglifther eyes as she drieddrythem , to the window opposite , she sawseea strange lady comingcomeup the garden .
One frightfully hot morning , when she was about nine years old , she awakenedawakenfeeling very cross , and she became crossercrosserstill when she sawseethat the servant who stood by her bedside was not her Ayah .
Nothing was done in its regular order and several of the native servants seemed missing , while those whom Mary sawseeslunkslinkor hurriedhurryabout with ashy and scared faces .
He looked tired and troubled , but when he sawseeher he was so startledstartledthat he almost jumped back .
They turnedturninto another street and sawseebefore them lighted windows ; a low story-and-a-half house , with a wing builtbuildon at the right and a kitchen addition at the back , everything a little on the slant -- roofs , windows , and doors .
He sawseelittle that was not familiar , or that he had not seen in his dreams a hundred times during the past ten years .
A few moments later , Warwick sawseea colored policeman in the old constable 's place -- a stronger reminder than even the burned buildings that war had left its mark upon the old town , with which Time had dealt so tenderly .
My uncle sawseeme staringstareand saidsayto me : “ Well , so your old friend is gone , you ’ll be sorry to hear . ”
She saw no Indians now ; she sawseeflour-mills and the blinkingblinkwindows of skyscrapers in Minneapolis and St. Paul .
She droppeddropher eyes to the immense bouquet of lilies-of-the-valley on her knee , and Newland Archer sawseeher white-gloved finger-tips touchtouchthe flowers softly .
He sawseehis mistress once before the destined ceremony ; but she was bathed in tears , and throwingthrowherself at his feet , entreatedentreathim to spare her , confessingconfessat the same time that she loved another , but that he was poor , and that her father would never consent to the union .
And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus , who because he could not grasp the tormenting , mild image he sawseein the fountain , plungedplungeinto it and was drowneddrown.
Lucy , too , was perplexed ; but she sawseethat they were in for what is known as “ quite a scene , ” and she had an odd feelingfeelthat whenever these ill-bred tourists spoke the contest widened and deepened till it dealt , not with rooms and views , but with -- well , with something quite different , whose existence she had not realized before .
We skirtedskirtit for another half hour or so , the ground growing firmer as we advancedadvanced, and presently we turnedturnthe corner of a wooded promontory and sawseea quite different country -- a sudden view of mountains , steep and bare .
Across the threadbare cuffedge he sawseethe sea hailed as a great sweet mother by the wellfed voice beside him .
I thought it the most prudent method to lie still , and my designdesignwas to continue so till night , when , my left hand being already loose , I could easily free myself : and as for the inhabitants , I had reason to believe I might be a match for the greatest army they could bring against me , if they were all of the same size with him that I sawsee.
When the people observedobserveI was quiet , they discharged no more arrows ; but , by the noisenoiseI heardhear, I knewknowtheir numbers increasedincrease; and about four yards from me , over against my right ear , I heardheara knockingknockfor above an hour , like that of people at work ; when turningturnmy head that way , as well as the pegs and strings would permit me , I sawseea stage erectederectabout a foot and a half from the ground , capable of holding four of the inhabitants , with two or three ladders to mount it : from whence one of them , who seemed to be a person of quality , made me a long speechspeech, whereof I understood not one syllable .
They made me a signsignthat I should throw down the two hogsheads , but first warningwarnthe people below to stand out of the way , cryingcryaloud , _ Borach mevolah _ ; and when they sawseethe vessels in the air , there was a universal shoutshoutof _ Hekinah degul _ .
Brothers and sisters were tom from each other , and mothers sawseetheir children for the last time on earth .
Really , Judy , I never knew there was any spot in the world so entirely ugly ; and when I sawseethose rows and rows of pale , listless , blue-uniformed children , the whole dismal business suddenly struck me with such a shockshockthat I almost collapsed .
Someone else told a story not particularly effective , which I sawseehe was not following .
When he sawseemy horse 's breast fairly pushingpushthe barrier , he did put out his hand to unchain it , and then sullenly precededprecedeme up the causeway , callingcall, as we enteredenterthe court , -- ' Joseph , take Mr. Lockwood 's horse ; and bring up some wine . '
When the church camecometo itself , -- for he was so sudden and strong that he made it gogohead over heels before me , and I sawseethe steeple under my feet , -- when the church camecometo itself , I say , I was seated on a high tombstone , trembling while he ateeatthe bread ravenously .
As I sawseehim gogo, pickingpickhis way among the nettles , and among the brambles that bound the green mounds , he looked in my young eyes as if he were eluding the hands of the dead people , stretching up cautiously out of their graves , to get a twist upon his ankle and pull him in .
But presently I lookedlookover my shoulder , and sawseehim goinggoon again towards the river , still hugginghughimself in both arms , and pickingpickhis way with his sore feet among the great stones dropped into the marshes here and there , for stepping-places when the rains were heavy or the tide was in .
As soon as we sawseethe master we trottedtrotup nearer to see what went on .
When in a quarter of an hour he camecomedown , what his hostess sawsee, what she might have taken in with a vision kindly adjusted , was the lean , the slightly loose figure of a man of the middle height and something more perhaps than the middle age -- a man of five-and-fifty , whose most immediate signs were a marked bloodless brownness of face , a thick dark moustache , of characteristically American cut , growing strong and falling low , a head of hair still abundant but irregularly streaked with grey , and a nose of bold free prominence , the even line , the high finish , as it might have been called , of which , had a certain effect of mitigation .
Casually glancingglanceover the hedge , Oak sawseecomingcomedown the incline before him an ornamental spring waggon , painted yellow and gaily marked , drawndrawby two horses , a waggoner walkingwalkalongside bearingbeara whip perpendicularly .
I got to an open door , and sawseethe bodies of two Indians ( by their dress , as I guessed , officers of the palace ) lying across the entrance , dead .
The man turnedturnat the instant when I camecomein , and I sawseeJohn Herncastle , with a torch in one hand , and a dagger drippingdrippingwith blood in the other .
His rooms were brilliantly lit , and , even as I lookedlookup , I sawseehis tall , spare figure passpasstwice in a dark silhouette against the blind .
" I think , Watson , that you have put on seven and a half pounds since I sawseeyou . "
I did so , and sawseea large " E " with a small " g , " a " P , " and a large " G " with a small " t " woven into the texture of the paper .
Winterbourne glancedglanceat the small table near him , on which his coffee service rested , and sawseethat several morsels of sugar remained .
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 .
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 .
“ I was kind of afraid _ you _ were n’t , though , when I sawseeMatthew startingstartoff today .
Whenever any one gets a good friend in this world , they 're the first to be took away , " saidsaythe weepingweephandmaiden , who naturally sawseeher own losslossin the most vivid light .
... “ Mr. Denham , mother , ” she saidsayaloud , for she sawseethat her mother had forgotten his name .
He glancedglanceround him , and sawseethat , save for Katharine , they were all over forty , the only consolationconsolationbeing that Mr. Fortescue was a considerable celebrity , so that to-morrow one might be glad to have met him .