The next, swift as an arrow, he sped for the woods upon the farther side; and the next again, throwing up his hands with a violent gesture of resolution, he had begun already to retrace his steps.
Even while he was driving me, I had begunto find my heart go out to Mr. Henry; no doubt, partly in pity, he was a man so palpably unhappy.
I was now much oppressed with a sense of the mysteries in which we had begun to move.
We could thus feel we had laid the foundations of a better feeling in the country, and the man's own misconduct would certainly complete what we had begun.
The ominous coldness with which he had begun to speak had had a disturbing effect upon the Dowager; the words he uttered, when she had weighed them, brought an immense relief.
It had begun to fall away five nights ago, when he had heard what passed between Madame de Condillac and Valerie.
But so few had really known anything of poor little Samavia until the newspapers had begun to tell them of the horrors of its war--and who but a Samavian could speak its language?
He had begun to breathe so quickly that he stopped for a moment.
He had begun at the beginning, and his father had listened with a deep interest.
When he came out into the light, he had begun to hope that the time would not seem long to his father.
Now that he had begunto be frank and lucid, Bernard found a charm in it, and the impulse under which he had spoken urged him almost violently forward.
And in the same year King Edward abolished the tribute, which King Ethelred had before imposed: that was in the nine-and-thirtieth year after hehad begun it.
I should have thought it a great deal,' she said presently, 'before I had begun to think of thousands.
Of this he was dimly conscious, and, on receiving his legacy, he put aside for nearly twelve months the new novel he had begun.
He had begun to answer advertisements, but the state of his wardrobe forbade his applying for any but humble positions.
It had begun to dawn upon Rosalie that her ladyship was deeply convinced that either herself or her son would be admirably discreet custodians of the money referred to.
She had been ill a year, her hair had fallen out, her skin had faded and she had begun to feel like a nervous, tired old woman instead of a girl.
She had heard of men who had changed their manner towards girls after they had married them, but she did not know they had begun to change so soon.
If I had begun earlier, would it have been easier?
The strong and strange thing--that which moves on its way as do birth and death, and the rising and setting of the sun--had begun to move in them.
It had begun to snow about ten o'clock in the morning and a wind sprang up and blew the snow in clouds along Main Street.
The hotel in which he had begun life so hopefully was now a mere ghost of what a hotel should be.
To Doctor Reefy, who without realizing what was happening had begun to love her, there came an odd illusion.
I put it to myself, "that I should finish the work those Cossacks had begun!
We had begun at the dinner table with itineraries and the usual topographical talk, and she had envied our pedestrian travel.
Once I had begun, it seemed to me I had to go through with it.
Dispose of that," he said in German, and passed on, finishing his sentence to Von Winterfeld in the same cheerful tone in which it had begun.
Then for some reason Edna and he had begun to cry pitifully for each other, and he woke up with wet eye-lashes into this ill-ventilated darkness of the locker.
The special peculiarities of aerial warfare were of such a nature as to trend, once it had begun, almost inevitably towards social disorganisation.
He had begun to level his aim at universal monarchy, but above all he was eager to measure himself with the Romans.
It had begun at a little shed belonging to the house, the roof of which had caught.
Encouraged by the rules of etiquette, which he had begun to introduce at the court as an element of every relation of life, Louis XIV.
Lothario replied that now he had begun he would carry on the undertaking to the end, though he perceived he was to come out of it wearied and vanquished.
Life, since the fall in wages, had begun to appear to them with a more serious air.
I took it bashfully, feeling I had begun my American career on the wrong foot.
He knew young people over whose minds it had begun to creep like the mere slip of a plant up a wall; old ones over whose minds it lay like a poisonous creeper hiding a rotting ruin.
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