"Coming back" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as one can judge from appearances, the crime happened in this wise: Mrs. Doolittle had been in her kitchen, as the tea-kettle found singing on the stove goes to prove, and was coming back through her bedroom, when the wretch, who had stolen in by the front door which, to save steps, she was unfortunately in the habit of leaving on the latch till all possibility of customers for the day was over, sprang upon her from ...
— The Golden Slipper • Anna Katharine Green
... was, he will be too frightened to think of coming back to-night, so just go to your beds, and let us get to ours." And she pushed them gently out. They continued to murmur apologies after the door was shut; but Aunt Anne ...
— Barbara in Brittany • E. A. Gillie
... means of a reconciliation; that Richard, after reading her note, would move heaven and earth to find her, and having done so, would thenceforth be her willing slave; possibly, too, remembering the harsh things he had so recently said to her, she exulted a little as she saw him coming back to his deserted home, and finding his domestic altar laid low in the dust. But if this was so she gave no sign, and though her face was deathly pale, her nerves were steady and her voice calm, as she gave orders concerning ...
— Ethelyn's Mistake • Mary Jane Holmes
... the house," said she, "just now I borrowed ten sous for the children from the servant. I had to get ten francs from the Mont de Piete on a little ring the other day. And it's always the same at the end of the month. However, Chretiennot will be paid to-day, and he's coming back early with the money for dinner. So if I can I ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola
... are—the rest of you coming back?" Hervey asked with just the faintest suggestion of a ...
— Tom Slade's Double Dare • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
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