With this grotesque apostrophe to himself, he commenced retracing the footmarks that had guided him to the edge of the opening.
But I could not accept his hospitality without retracing five or six miles of the road which I had already passed, and therefore I declined it.
Volition I had none, but appeared to be impelled into motion, and flitted buoyantly out of the city, retracing the circuitous path by which I had entered it.