There had been, so far as we could follow their signs, a tunnel by which the place could be approached, the lower exit of which we had seen from below.
Only the year before, however, there had been a terrific earthquake, and the upper end of the tunnel had fallen in and completely disappeared.
There had been a time when the walls on which her gaze now rested had shed a glare of irony on these early dreams.
There had, in fact, grown upon her while he spoke the urgency of seeing Sophy Viner again before she left.
There had been a good deal to irritate him, but this seemed much the worst.
He ascended the stairs and went into his room as if there had been no trouble.
If there had been no faint recognition on this occasion, there would have been no future association.
There had been so much enthusiasm engendered that she was believing herself deeply in love.
There had been no time as yet, between her and Nick, to revert to money matters; and where there was so little money it could not, obviously, much matter.
Once more the report was that there hadbeen no rape, but it now appeared that there had been some manipulation of the parts.
There had been a severe operation on account of some trouble with the teeth.
There had been a time when such a walk with Gilbert through Lovers' Lane would have been far too dangerous.
There had been no snow up to this time, but as Diana crossed the old log bridge on her homeward way the white flakes were beginning to flutter down over the fields and woods, russet and gray in their dreamless sleep.
There had been a new, secret self-consciousness in her heart with regard to Gilbert, ever since that fleeting moment of revelation in the garden of Echo Lodge.
There had been a coolness between myself and Small on account of his being so close.
I feel as ifthere had been an earthquake," said Jo, as their neighbors went home to breakfast, leaving them to rest and refresh themselves.
He did not say a word, but took the hand she offered him, and laid his face down on it for a minute, feeling that out of the grave of a boyish passion, there had risen a beautiful, strong friendship to bless them both.
There had been a Palmerston, that had been a name down Tiverton way; Tiverton was not a far journey as the crow flies, but to Martha it was almost a foreign country.
The tide had been at its highest when the children had arrived at Jagborough Cove, so there had been no sands to play on--a circumstance that the aunt had overlooked in the haste of organising her punitive expedition.
I also gave her a black silk skirt; she said that though there hadn't been a funeral in her family she felt as if there had been.
There had been no detective sergeants there--unquestionably there could be none here.
There had been no sound above the muffled tread of the seamen.
Those whom they had seen had been pure-blood Malays--there had been no samurai among them; but their savage, warlike appearance had warned the two against revealing their presence.
There had been a savage struggle for mastery, till the strangers made alliances and were granted territory between the mountains and the sea.
There had been an accident in the creek with the powder supply, and for the moment there were only two charges left in the whole outfit.
There had been no rain for a week in Washington, and the President, who had ridden in from his summer quarters in the Soldiers' Home, had his trousers grey with dust from the knees down.
Though it was a time of bustle, there was no joy in it, as there had been at other hostings.
There had been, too, a great number of sallow southern faces, as if the Queen-mother had moved bodily thither a city of her countrymen.
There had been no snow, and the long fields, sloping down from the homestead, were brown and mellow.
But I was so frightened of offending Peg I'd have tried to drink it all if there had been a bucketful.
There had grown up between us that summer a bond of sympathy that did not exist between us and the others.
There had been a few grave gentlemen to see me, and to their questions I had replied what I could.
There had been no meat save bacon since the McChesneys had left, for of late game had become scarce, and old Mr. Ripley was too feeble to go on the long hunts.
All this would have been very well, if there had been no exaggeration.
There had been a great deal of talk about them, and great preparations were being made for them.
Moreover, there had grown in him a certain admiration for the ingenuity and resource of this woman, though he retained all his rancor against one who dared thus to resist the duly constituted authority.
There had been in her gaze a conflict of emotions, strong and baffling.
Perhaps, there had been a faintest clicking noise.
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