"God knows you are right, master," she
returns. "I am not.
If they thought that I was so satisfied with my lot within Phutra that I would voluntarily
return when I had once had so excellent an opportunity to escape, they would never for an instant imagine that I could be occupied in arranging another escape immediately upon my
return to the city.
Danglars comprehended the full extent of the wretched fate that overwhelmed Dantes; and, when Napoleon
returned to France, he, after the manner of mediocre minds, termed the coincidence, "a decree of Providence." But when Napoleon
returned to Paris, Danglars' heart failed him, and he lived in constant fear of Dantes'
return on a mission of vengeance.
'I will stand,'
returned Mr Haredale impatiently, 'on this dismantled, beggared hearth, and not pollute it, fallen as it is, with mockeries.
Reed
returned, and were hailed with the most anxious eagerness.
"Partridge," cries Jones, "thou art certainly a coward; I wish, therefore, thou wouldst
return home thyself, and trouble me no more."
The native on shore
returned to the long-house without replying.
'But let me represent to you,'
returned Lightwood, 'speaking now with professional profundity, and not with individual imbecility, that the offer of such an immense reward is a temptation to forced suspicion, forced construction of circumstances, strained accusation, a whole tool-box of edged tools.'
'Yes, but she wouldn't have been as dutiful, and it would not have come off as easily,'
returned the whelp, 'if it hadn't been for me.'
Thus, some time after the
return of the travelers, the public received with marked favor the announcement of a company, limited, with a capital of a hundred million of dollars, divided into a hundred thousand shares of a thousand dollars each, under the name of the "National Company of Interstellary Communication." President, Barbicane; vice-president, Captain Nicholl; secretary, J.
'I tell you,'
returned the other with an increased earnestness, which, whether it were real or assumed, had the same effect on his companion, 'that he lives for her, that his whole energies and thoughts are bound up in her, that he would no more disinherit her for an act of disobedience than he would take me into his favour again for any act of obedience or virtue that I could possibly be guilty of.
Bradley did not
return; nor did we have any word from von Schoenvorts.