We wentgoout to inspect the property , and it seemed to deserve its name .
The last story , however incomplete and like the mere opening of a serial , had been toldtell; we handshookhandshookand “ candlestuck , ” as somebody saidsay, and wentgoto bed .
Then , he heldholdme by the arms , in an upright position on the top of the stone , and wentgoon in these fearful terms : -- “ You bring me , to-morrow morning early , that file and them wittles .
In another moment down wentgoAlice after it , never once considering how in the world she was to get out again .
Either the well was very deep , or she fell very slowly , for she had plenty of time as she wentgodown to looklookabout her and to wonderwonderwhat was going to happen next .
There was not a moment to be lost : away wentgoAlice like the wind , and was just in time to hear it saysay, as it turnedturna corner , ‘ Oh my ears and whiskers , how late it ’s getting ! ’
There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door , so she wentgoback to the table , half hoping she might find another key on it , or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes : this time she foundfinda little bottle on it , [ ‘ which certainly was not here before , ’ saidsayAlice , ) and round the neck of the bottle was a paper label , with the words ‘ DRINK ME ’ beautifully printed on it in large letters .
Once he had washedwashhis hands in the lavatory of the Wicklow Hotel and his father pulledpullthe stopper up by the chain after and the dirty water wentgodown through the hole in the basin .
But being one day at Hull , where I wentgocasually , and without any purpose of making an elopement at that time ; but , I say , being there , and one of my companions being about to sail to London in his father ’s ship , and promptingpromptme to go with them with the common allurement of seafaring men , that it should cost me nothing for my passage , I consulted neither father nor mother any more , nor so much as sent them word of it ; but leavingleavethem to hear of it as they might , without asking God ’s blessing or my father ’s , without any consideration of circumstances or consequences , and in an ill hour , God knows , on the 1st of September 1651 , I wentgoon board a ship bound for London .
But being one day at Hull , where I wentgocasually , and without any purpose of making an elopement at that time ; but , I say , being there , and one of my companions being about to sail to London in his father ’s ship , and promptingpromptme to go with them with the common allurement of seafaring men , that it should cost me nothing for my passage , I consulted neither father nor mother any more , nor so much as sent them word of it ; but leavingleavethem to hear of it as they might , without asking God ’s blessing or my father ’s , without any consideration of circumstances or consequences , and in an ill hour , God knows , on the 1st of September 1651 , I wentgoon board a ship bound for London .
When he wentgoto Harvard , the Comstock droppeddropout of his name to a nether hell of oblivion and was never heard of thereafter .
One triptripthey did take ; when Anthony was eleven they wentgoabroad , to England and Switzerland , and there in the best hotel in Lucerne his father dieddiewith much sweatingsweatand gruntinggruntand cryingcryaloud for air .
“ I tell you , ” wentgoon Syme with passion , “ that every time a train comes in I feel that it has broken past batteries of besiegers , and that man has won a battle against chaos .
He wentgoin , and for an instant experienced that ecstatic thrillthrillwhich only comes to elderly gentlemen of solitary habit who in a house full of their juniors find themselves alone at last .
Dr. Livesey camecomelate one afternoon to see the patient , took a bit of dinnerdinnerfrom my mother , and wentgointo the parlour to smoke a pipe until his horse should come down from the hamlet , for we had no stabling at the old Benbow .
The voices stoppedstopat once , all but Dr. Livesey 's ; he wentgoon as before speakingspeakclear and kind and drawingdrawbriskly at his pipe between every word or two .
All this wentgobriskly through her mind , undeterred by the reflectionreflectionthat tears were as much out of the Doctor 's way as embraces ; and in this mood she spedspeedswiftly along in the inspirationinspirationof her first sorrowsorrow, as she imaginedimagine, but in reality to suffer her first disappointment , which was of a less soothing character than that mild and manageable grief .
When the Doctor wentgoin to his favourite seclusion , tired and heated and sad -- for even on the day of his wife 's funeralfuneralthe favourite doctor of Carlingford had patients to think of -- the very heaviness of his thoughtsthoughtgave warmthwarmthto his indignationindignation.
About an hour afterwards he wentgoupstairs to the drawing-room , where Miss Marjoribanks was waitingwaitfor him , much less at ease than she had expected to be .
Trail , trail , wentgoher long dress over the sopping grass , and she camecomeback with her hands full of the hay that was cutcutyesterday -- I suppose for rabbits or something , as she kept on smellingsmellit .
They knew us well enough to askaskHelen to come and see them -- at least , I was askedasktoo , but Tibby 's illness preventedpreventme , so last Monday she wentgoalone .
Mr. Denham mutteredmuttersomething , which was indeed all that was required of him , and the novelist wentgoon where he had leftleaveoff .
He putputhis arm about my shoulder , for we were old friends , and together we wentgoup the green bank to the house , and , when I had broughtbringhim a pipe , satsitdown side by side upon the doorstep .
Even envious Miss Briggs never spoke ill of her ; high and mighty Miss Saltire ( Lord Dexter 's granddaughter ) allowed that her figure was genteel ; and as for Miss Swartz , the rich woolly-haired mulatto from St. Kitt 's , on the day Amelia wentgoaway , she was in such a passionpassionof tearstearthat they were obliged to sendsendfor Dr. Floss , and half tipsifytipsifyher with salvolatile .
So she wentgocarefully through the editorial communication .
She wentgoto the open door and stoodstandin it and lookedlookout among the tomato vines and “ jimpson ” weeds that constituted the garden .
As he wentgoout at the door he saidsay: “ Siddy , I 'll lick you for that . ”
" Being natural is simply a pose , and the most irritating pose I know , " criedcryLord Henry , laughinglaugh; and the two young men wentgoout into the garden together and ensconcedensconcethemselves on a long bamboo seat that stood in the shade of a tall laurel bush .
Mrs. Hall litlightthe fire and leftleavehim there while she wentgoto prepare him a meal with her own hands .
She wentgoquite softly to the kitchen , and was too preoccupied to ask Millie what she was messingmessabout with _ now _ , when she gotgetthere .
When Mrs. Hall wentgoto clear away the stranger 's lunch , her ideaideathat his mouth must also have been cut or disfigured in the accident she supposed him to have suffered , was confirmedconfirm, for he was smokingsmokea pipe , and all the time that she was in the room he never loosened the silk muffler he had wrapped round the lower part of his face to putputthe mouthpiece to his lips .