1 And that's what stands to me now.
2 Old Cotter looked at me for a while.
3 But the grey face still followed me.
4 "No, no, not for me," said old Cotter.
5 But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being.
6 He had often said to me: "I am not long for this world," and I had thought his words idle.
7 It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work.
8 I wondered at this for, as my uncle had said the night before, he had taught me a great deal.
9 He had studied in the Irish college in Rome and he had taught me to pronounce Latin properly.
10 I knew that I was under observation so I continued eating as if the news had not interested me.
11 The reading of the card persuaded me that he was dead and I was disturbed to find myself at check.
12 I felt my soul receding into some pleasant and vicious region; and there again I found it waiting for me.
13 I felt that his little beady black eyes were examining me but I would not satisfy him by looking up from my plate.
14 Perhaps my aunt would have given me a packet of High Toast for him and this present would have roused him from his stupefied doze.
15 It began to confess to me in a murmuring voice and I wondered why it smiled continually and why the lips were so moist with spittle.
16 Though I was angry with old Cotter for alluding to me as a child, I puzzled my head to extract meaning from his unfinished sentences.
17 He had told me stories about the catacombs and about Napoleon Bonaparte, and he had explained to me the meaning of the different ceremonies of the Mass and of the different vestments worn by the priest.
Your search result may include more than 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.