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Page 192
... Lewis ? ' ' Oh no , ' cried Viola , quickly . Indeed , I'm not frightened . I don't want any escort ; ' and she ran upstairs so fast that Sir Lewis lost his opportunity of saying something sweet at the end of the corridor . His devotion ...
... Lewis ? ' ' Oh no , ' cried Viola , quickly . Indeed , I'm not frightened . I don't want any escort ; ' and she ran upstairs so fast that Sir Lewis lost his opportunity of saying something sweet at the end of the corridor . His devotion ...
Page 193
... Sir Lewis retired to enjoy his cigar , and Churchill went into his study . He found that the burglar had availed himself of this momentary delay , and was beginning to unfasten the shutters . ' What ? You'd like to get out that way ...
... Sir Lewis retired to enjoy his cigar , and Churchill went into his study . He found that the burglar had availed himself of this momentary delay , and was beginning to unfasten the shutters . ' What ? You'd like to get out that way ...
Page 202
... Sir Lewis Dallas was still listening with rapt attention to Viola's account of her feelings at the sight of the thief , when the butler , who had left the room a few minutes before , in compliance with a whispered request from his ...
... Sir Lewis Dallas was still listening with rapt attention to Viola's account of her feelings at the sight of the thief , when the butler , who had left the room a few minutes before , in compliance with a whispered request from his ...
Page 203
... Sir Lewis . I wonder it didn't strike you that he would get out at the window , Penwyn . You locked the door , and thought you had him safe . Something like the painter fellow , who went in for the feline species , and cut two holes in ...
... Sir Lewis . I wonder it didn't strike you that he would get out at the window , Penwyn . You locked the door , and thought you had him safe . Something like the painter fellow , who went in for the feline species , and cut two holes in ...
Page 204
... Sir Lewis , warmly interested . How jolly ! ' ' You don't mean to say that you take any interest in that sort of twaddle ? ' said Churchill . ' Anything in the way of crime is interesting to me , ' replied the young man ; and to assist ...
... Sir Lewis , warmly interested . How jolly ! ' ' You don't mean to say that you take any interest in that sort of twaddle ? ' said Churchill . ' Anything in the way of crime is interesting to me , ' replied the young man ; and to assist ...
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Page 246 - To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way For honour travels in a strait so narrow, W'here one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue: If you give way...
Page 34 - O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted!
Page 24 - ... occasionally felt severely the loss of her children; often when she thought of them, she shut herself up in her garret, and wept bitterly. She carefully avoided schools, and every place where children were to be met; and seemed to be particularly conscientious in paying off the debts of Gottfried. She loved money, not so much for its own sake, as because it afforded her the means of making a figure among her acquaintances, and so of gratifying her vanity. Yet in spite of all these murders, she...