at his leg and me several times , he camecomecloser to my tombstone , tooktakeme by both arms , and tiltedtiltme back as far as he could hold me ; so that his eyes lookedlookmost powerfully down into mine , and mine lookedlookmost helplessly up into his .
When he camecometo the low church wall , he gotgetover it , like a man whose legs were numbed and stiff , and then turnedturnround to look for me .
After them camecomea number of men on horseback , some of them in green coats , all gallopinggallopas fast as they could .
yo , o , o ! ” again , and back they camecomealtogether at full speed , making straightstraightfor our meadow at the part where the high bank and hedge overhang the brook .
Then some one ranrunto our master ’s house and camecomeback with a gun ; presently there was a loud bangbangand a dreadful shriekshriek, and then all was stillstill; the black horse moved no more .
down she camecomeupon a heap of sticks and dry leaves , and the fallfallwas over .
Suddenly she camecomeupon a little three-legged table , all made of solid glass ; there was nothing on it except a tiny golden key , and Alice ’s first thoughtthinkwas that it might belong to one of the doors of the hall ; but , alas !
However , on the second time round , she camecomeupon a low curtain she had not noticed before , and behind it was a little door about fifteen inches high : she triedtrythe little golden key in the lock , and to her great delight it fittedfit!
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 .
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 .
The moocow camecomedown the road where Betty Byrne lived : she sold lemon platt .
All the good counsels of my parents , my father ’s tearstearand my mother ’s entreatiesentreaty, camecomenow fresh into my mind ; and my conscience , which was not yet come to the pitch of hardness to which it has since , reproachedreproachme with the contempt of advice , and the breach of my duty to God and my father .
He camecomehome from the war a major , chargedchargeinto Wall Street , and amid much fuss , fume , applause , and ill will he gathered to himself some seventy-five million dollars .
This girl is grieved at my habit of living almost in the garden , and all her ideas as to the sort of life a respectable German lady should lead have got into a sad muddle since she camecometo me .
And then , before I had a little got used to the joy of their flowers against the sky , camecomethe lilacs -- masses and masses of them , in clumps on the grass , with other shrubs and trees by the side of walks , and one great continuous bank of them half a mile long right past the west front of the house , away down as far as one could see , shining glorious against a background of firs .
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 .
Closer and closer they camecome, until one of them was directly behind the captain .
On the second day after the woundingwoundof Black Michael , Clayton camecomeon deck just in time to seeseethe limp body of one of the crew being carriedcarrybelow by four of his fellows while the first mate , a heavy belaying pin in his hand , stood gloweringglowerat the little party of sullen sailors .
It is true that I had a country walkwalkon Thursday and camecomehome in a dreadful mess , but as I have changedchangemy clothes I ca n't imagine how you deducededuceit .
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 .
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 .
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 .
We wastedwastea whole day , and camecomeacross the Wilcoxes as we were eatingeatour sandwiches in the public gardens .
It suddenly camecomeinto Katharine ’s mind that if some one opened the door at this moment he would think that they were enjoying themselves ; he would think , “ What an extremely nice house to come into ! ”
Cameron camecomeforth out of the shadow and greetedgreethis visitor , whom he tooktakefor a prospector like himself .
One afternoon late , after they had toiledtoilup a white , winding wash of sand and gravel , they camecomeupon a dry waterhole .
An empty egg-basket was slung upon his arm , the nap of his hat was ruffled , a patch being quite worn away at its brim where his thumb camecomein takingtakeit off .
" Well , I have heard once or twice , 't is true , that my family had seen better days afore they camecometo Blackmoor .
Upon the afternoon of which I now speakspeak, in the midsummer of the year of grace 1621 , as I sat upon my doorstep , my long pipe between my teeth and my eyes upon the pallid stream below , my thoughtsthoughtwere busy with these matters , -- so busy that I did not see a horse and rider emergeemergefrom the dimness of the forest into the cleared space before my palisade , nor knew , until his voicevoicecamecomeup the bank , that my good friend , Master John Rolfe , was without and would speak to me .
“ Yet I camecomewith half a mind to persuade thee to that very burden ! ” he criedcry, with another laughlaugh.
Since then I have been at Montreux with Chris and Molly , and since I camecomeback to England with them , I 've been in too chaotic a state of mind to write letters .
The morning of Powell 's departuredeparturewas , like nearly all Arizona mornings , clear and beautiful ; I could seeseehim and his little pack animals pickingpicktheir way down the mountainside toward the valley , and all during the morning I would catch occasional glimpsesglimpseof them as they toppedtopa hog back or camecomeout upon a level plateau .
I camecomeupon the spot unexpectedly , findingfindit entirely deserted , with no signs of having been recently occupied as a camp .
CHAPTER I THE STRANGE MAN 'S ARRIVALarrivalThe stranger camecomeearly in February , one wintry day , through a biting windwindand a driving snowsnow, the last snowfallsnowfallof the year , over the down , walkingwalkfrom Bramblehurst railway station , and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand .