Twenty minutes later she was at the desk of the Grafin's pension, her tears dried, signing a hotel form and asking for a bath.

At her door, two or three hours later, Mary Jane whispered, `` Everyone is asleep ''.

When I informed her that I didn't, she said she would borrow her brother's and bring it to me later that evening.

She thought again of her children, those two who had died young, before the later science which might have saved them could attach even a label to their separate malignancies.

It is of interest that her menarche was somewhat later than the average for the girls in this group.

Thus in Mary wrote an account of the trip first strong stress on Mary marks Mary as the first in a series of people who wrote accounts of the trip, strong stress on wrote marks the writing as the first of a series of actions of Mary's concerned with an account of her trip ( about which she may later have made speeches, for example ), and strong stress on trip makes the trip the first of a series of subjects about which Mary wrote accounts.

This last `` rampage '' is only the prelude to the vicious blow upon her head, `` dealt by some unknown hand '' whose identity is later revealed not verbally but through a manual action -- the tracing of Orlick's hammer upon a slate.

We first see him shaking Mrs. Joe's hand on discovering the sizable amount of the premium paid to her husband for Pip's indenture as an apprentice and later pumping Pip's hands `` for the hundredth time at least '' ( `` May I -- may I -- ''??

In the spring and early summer of that year she met a wealthy foreign tycoon who took her to France, where she later met a very wealthy man and toured all Europe with him.

A picture of her in high school comes from a younger schoolmate, Albert S. Flint, friend of her brother Winslow, and later, like Winslow, a noted astronomer.

On arriving in Tokyo later we were met by Masu who took us immediately to her university, the Japanese Women's University.

I didn't see her till several days later at the wedding, and her face looked like it had never had a blemish on it.

She had quarreled with Lucien, she had resisted his demands for money -- and if she died, by the provisions of her marriage contract, Lucien would inherit legally not only the immediate sum of gold under the floorboards in the office, but later, when the war was over, her father's entire estate.

A half hour later he got her up to go out for breakfast so the Ferraros, hearing them hurrying down the stairs, would think they were going to a late mass.

A few moments later her hands were trembling and her brow had contracted with anxiety and dismay.

She had activated one of her microscopic tools which she would later use for minute repairs to various parts of her control panel.

After the death of Lincoln's mother, his older sister, Sarah, took charge of caring for him until their father remarried in 1819 ; Sarah later died in her 20s while giving birth to a stillborn son.

A year later, Lise Meitner and her nephew Otto Frisch verified that Hahn's result were the first experimental nuclear fission.

Christie wrote that Poirot is a Roman Catholic, and gave her character a strong sense of Catholic morality later in works.

The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.

Several years of her life have been spent in the homeland, and she had written to friends to alert them of our coming.

A few years before his death Papa had agreed with Mama to make a joint will with her in which it would be provided that in the event of the death of either of them an accounting would be made to their children whereby each child would receive a bequest of $5000 cash.

Not seeing her dark intelligent face, one would have gauged the voice as that of a Westwood Village matron, ten years out of Iowa.

Though this sculpture must take place thirty-three years after her moment of decision, he could not conceive of her as a woman in her mid-fifties, old, wrinkled, broken in body and face by labor or worry.

Twenty years ago, she would have been known as a golf widow, and the sum of her manner was perhaps one of bereavement.

It was not as though she noted clearly that her nephews had not been to see her for ten years, not since their last journey eastward to witness their Uncle Izaak being lowered into the rocky soil ; ;

She fell asleep leaning on her hand, hearing the house creaking as though it were a living a private life of its own these two hundred years, hearing the birds rustling in their cages and the occasional whirring of wings as one of them landed on the table and walked across the newspaper to perch in the crook of her arm.

Twenty years ago her daughter Betsey Long, then 13 years of age, won the Grand Challenge Trophy, Children's Handling Class ( as they were called then ) at Westminster.

Betty is 16 years of age and had several wins to her credit last year.

Again, I at first misconstrued this disconcertingly intense communication, and I quickly cast through my mind to account for her being able to speak, with such utter conviction, of an opinion held by my father, now several years deceased.

Another veteran telephone operator was Edith Fleming Blackmer, who had been in the office forty years at the time of her death in 1960.

Such understanding helps to explain why one matron celebrating thirty-five years of married life could declare with some pride that her husband had `` never seen her entirely naked '', while another woman, boasting an equal number of years of married life, is proud of having `` shared the nudist way of life -- the really free, natural nude life -- for most of that period ''.

Houston police got to know Diane two years ago when the vice squad picked her up for questioning about a call girl ring.

One can apply these facts to Britain in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as she spread her dominion over palm and pine, and they can be applied again to the United States in more recent years.

After her father's death, Lucy and her youngest sister lived for a few years with Winslow in Washington, D.C..

In 1849, Tubman escaped to Philadelphia, then immediately returned to Maryland to rescue her family.

Kate Larson records the year 1822, based on a midwife payment and several other historical documents, including her runaway advertisement while Jean Humez says " the best current evidence suggests that Tubman was born in 1820, but it might have been a year or two later.

" Catherine Clinton notes that Tubman reported the year of her birth as 1825, while her death certificate lists 1815 and her gravestone lists 1820.

In her Civil War widow's pension records, Tubman claimed she was born in 1820, 1822, and 1825, an indication, perhaps, that she had only a general idea of when she was born.

Because Tubman ’ s mother was assigned to " the big house " and had scarce time for her family, as a child Tubman took care of a younger brother and a baby, as was typical in large families.

Tubman spoke later of her acute childhood homesickness, comparing herself to " the boy on the Swanee River ", an allusion to Stephen Foster's song " Old Folks at Home ".

Bleeding and unconscious, Tubman was returned to her owner's house and laid on the seat of a loom, where she remained without medical care for two days.

This condition remained with Tubman for the rest of her life ; Larson suggests she may have suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy as a result of the injury.

The particular variety of her early Christian belief remains unclear, but Tubman acquired a passionate faith in God.

After her head injury, Tubman began having visions and potent dreams, which she considered signs from the divine.

Several years later, Tubman contacted a white attorney and paid him five dollars to investigate her mother's legal status.

Tubman changed her name from Araminta to Harriet soon after her marriage, though the exact timing is unclear.

In 1849, Tubman became ill again, and her value as a slave was diminished as a result.

Angry at his action and the unjust hold he kept on her relatives, Tubman began to pray for her owner, asking God to make him change his ways.

" A week later, Brodess died, and Tubman expressed regret for her earlier sentiments.

Tubman refused to wait for the Brodess family to decide her fate, despite her husband's efforts to dissuade her.

Tubman and her brothers, Ben and Henry, escaped from slavery on September 17, 1849.

Tubman had been hired out to Dr. Anthony Thompson, who owned a large plantation in an area called Poplar Neck in neighboring Caroline County ; it is likely her brothers labored for Thompson as well.