Browning was the other poet for whom I felt a very strong admiration and whom I had often wanted to meet.
I doubt if he had ever intentionally snubbed a man in his life, though, no doubt, he had often done so unintentionally, for he was plain-spoken.
It was a young barrister who was travelling with his mother, and whom we had often met.
He had often written, inviting me to come and see him, and I had always promised to do so, without keeping my word.
He had often fought, and he would have liked to catch thieves in his house.
He had often mentioned an old actress who had left the stage for more than twenty years, and pretended to have been my father's friend.
It was the famous fandango, of which I had often heard, but of which I had absolutely no idea.
I had often wished to go there, but had shrunk from doing so though my sister had been two or three times.
There were the two well-known bow windows, out of which he had often stepped to run across the lawn into the workshop.
I wished, as I had often wished in such opportunities of recollection and of silence, for a complete barrier that might isolate the mind.
The innkeeper and his wife were kindly, but their eyes showed that they had often to suspect men.
Indeed, I had often so slept when I had been compelled to it in Manoeuvres, but I had forgotten how essential was a rug of some kind, and what a difference a fire and comradeship could make.
They are spongers," he had often said, "and people cannot afford to have such useless people around.
And the doctor, whom he had often met on the road, what was he doing there?
It spiles sich people," he had often said, "to take too much notice of 'em.
Mrs. Williams was very peevish; and I wondered at Johnson's patience with her now, as I had often done on similar occasions.
Gardiner, on being introduced to me, said at once, that he had oftenwished to see me on the subject of my errand, but that the owner of the Pilgrim had pointed me out to him as a person, whom he would wish him to avoid.
The way was long and devious; it was blocked and barred; he had often to lay his burden down and make an opening through some walled-up entrance to give them room for passage.
He had often thought to go over again the route taken on that day, but he had never found the time to do so.
He had often to stop and rest, he felt so very weak.
I had often read of this curious habit, and immediately returned to the place, accompanied by several of the natives.
I now understood the use of the line of bamboo pegs sticking in trees, which I had often seen, and wondered for what purpose they could have been put there.
For the first half of the distance there was no path, and we had often to cut our way through tangled rattans or thickets of bamboo.
I duly reported this saying to Mudford afterwards, and I know that this praise from one whom he had often criticised so severely afforded that distinguished editor intense pleasure.
He had often thought it strange that Vincent Heron had a bird's face as well as a bird's name.
He understood also why the servants had often whispered together in the hall and why his father had often stood on the hearthrug with his back to the fire, talking loudly to uncle Charles who urged him to sit down and eat his dinner.
It was his first Christmas dinner and he thought of his little brothers and sisters who were waiting in the nursery, as he had often waited, till the pudding came.
Scotty and I had often talked of what we would do in case of a sudden attack, and we forthwith proceeded to carry out the plan we had made.
The commander of the Far West was Captain Grant March, a fine chap of whom I had often heard.
He thought of himself walking, as he had often walked, from lamp to lamp on such a night, treasuring his lonely thoughts, and weighing the hard task awaiting him in his room.
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