Moreover, the tale of what had happened to the brute who wished to hunt me down in the cattle-kraal had travelled far and wide and none sought to share his fate.
I told her something ofwhat had happened, whereon Heda, who did not appreciate its importance in the least, remarked that she, Nombe, might as well have put on the pot before she went and done sundry other things which I forget.
Her astonishment, as she reflected on what had passed, was increased by every review of it.
Mr. Collins, meanwhile, was meditating in solitude on what had passed.
Elizabeth could never address her without feeling that all the comfort of intimacy was over, and though determined not to slacken as a correspondent, it was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.
With a strong prejudice against everything he might say, she began his account of what had happened at Netherfield.
Thorkell rode on, knowing nothing of what had happened.
Grettir had not received news of it because he had been in hiding there for two years and a third in Thorisdal and had met no one to tell him of what had happened.
The bondi uttered no sound, having heard quite enough of what had gone on outside.
I would rather have sat a little longer; what had I to return to but my small empty room?
What had he to say about his friend Hunsden--anything sweet?
What had I known of female character previously to my arrival at Brussels?
After all, what had he to go on to the contrary, except the word of three priests who were so terrified that they could give no coherent account of what had happened?
Cocoa and coffee we had no time to make then, and in view of that sepulchre in the cave, what had we to do with cocoa and coffee?
The suitors were surprised and angry at what had happened, so they went outside the great wall that ran round the outer court, and held a council near the main entrance.
Unfortunately the mystery had vanished with the goddess, and, for all their endeavours, they discovered only what was on sale since the owner's decease, and nothing of what hadbeen on sale during her lifetime.
My sister, naturally, knew nothing of what had happened, and she could not understand how it was that I, who had formerly been so lighthearted, had suddenly become so sad and dreamy.
There was no inkling to what had happened to the mate.
The more I think over it the more I am surprised that such keen men as the gangsters should have been frightened by what had occurred.
It was Margaret who came to where I was stationed by the jiggermast and told me what had occurred; and it was she who took my rifle and relieved me so that I could go aft.
I only know that I found myself, with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause, making the most strenuous exertions to compress it within those limits.
When I told the clerk that I would take a turn in the air while I waited, he advised me to go round the corner and I should come into Smithfield.
Infinite pains were then taken by Biddy to convey to my sister some idea of what had happened.
As we began to be more used to one another, Miss Havisham talked more to me, and asked me such questions as what had I learnt and what was I going to be?
There was a stage, that evening, when she spoke collectedly of what had happened, though with a certain terrible vivacity.
Yet--what had it really been, but the uncontrolled impulse of an emotional child longing to express feelings kindled by the excitement of that opera?
Even that was almost better than this actuality of not knowing where she was, or what had happened.
What had happened in these five days to make her like this to him?
Reflecting on what had passed, it was plain to me that this woman had some private end in view, and that my abrupt departure had prevented her from finding the way to it.
Then I asked--with an uneasy conscience, with a sinking heart--what had happened to distress her.
I naturally expected that the old Frenchman would return with me to his niece, and tell me what had happened.
What had my aunt been doing for forty minutes in Michael's room?
Neither was Pompey guilty in this of ingratitude or unmindfulness of what had occurred in Sicily, which some have laid to his charge, but was guided by a high minded policy and a deliberate counsel for the security of his country.
Why, what had I to fear, I thought, when there was this nobility in the soul of a labouring man's daughter!
If I were weak now, what had I profited by those mercies?
What had I done in her absence to have incurred her displeasure?
TO THE SAME (In conclusion) I did not sleep a wink all that night; nor did I know till the next day the full meaning of what had happened to me.
The morning was a dull and stupid calm, and I found she was unwell, in consequence of what had happened.
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