at last
‘and listen where the sound comes from.’
At last
the thieves found him out, and lifted him up in their hands.
Meantime the thieves were frightened, and ran off a little way; but
at last
they plucked up their hearts, and said,
Sonia wrote that he was constantly sullen and not ready to talk, that he scarcely seemed interested in the news she gave him from their letters, that he sometimes asked after his mother and that when, seeing that he had guessed the truth, she told him
at last
of her death, she was surprised to find that he did not seem greatly affected by it, not externally at any rate.
At last
the news came (Dounia had indeed noticed signs of alarm and uneasiness in the preceding letters) that he held aloof from everyone, that his fellow prisoners did not like him, that he kept silent for days at a time and was becoming very pale.
At last
the moment came, and Achmet Zek pulled the trigger.
And
at last
, when the raiders assembled after glutting their fury and their avarice, and rode away with her toward the north, she saw the smoke and the flames rising far into the heavens until the winding of the trail into the thick forests hid the sad view from her eyes.
The Major had settled in life
at last
. And, more wonderful still, the Major had chosen as the lawful ruler of his household and himself–“the future Queen of Song,” the round-eyed, overdressed young lady with the strident soprano voice!
On this day I have
at last
summoned courage enough to perform the promise which I made to my husband in Paris.
At last
, because I was romantic, I devised an explanation which I acknowledged to be far-fetched, but which was the only one that in any way satisfied me.
But how strange it was that the creative instinct should seize upon this dull stockbroker, to his own ruin, perhaps, and to the misfortune of such as were dependent on him; and yet no stranger than the way in which the spirit of God has seized men, powerful and rich, pursuing them with stubborn vigilance till
at last
, conquered, they have abandoned the joy of the world and the love of women for the painful austerities of the cloister.
