Indeed, so realistic did she paint them, that to herself they seemed realities, waiting for her.

Then she would rise to go towards them only to strike herself against the thought of the thing that stood between her and them.

At first she only hated the thing, but after a while there came an ugly look of hope into her eyes.
"The time drew near for the man to return to England.

The canal was completed, and a day appointed for the letting in of the water.

The man determined to make the event the occasion of a social gathering.