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Carton has just telephoned that her mother, poor woman, is worrying her heart out and is a mere shadow of her former self." "We must get some word," asserted Miss Kendall. "This silence is almost like the silence of death." "I'm afraid I shall have to impose on you that task," said Kennedy thoughtfully to her. "There seems to be no course open to us but to transfer our watch from Dr.
If there had been any eyes to notice the influence of her look, on Sydney Carton, it would have been seen to be the same influence exactly. Before that unjust Tribunal, there was little or no order of procedure, ensuring to any accused person any reasonable hearing.
We did so, without encountering any adventure more thrilling than seeing an argument between a policeman and a late reveller. "I can't thank you fellows too much," complimented Carton as we left him. "I was hunting around for you, but I thought you had found a suffrage meeting too slow and had gone." "On the contrary," returned Kennedy, equivocally, "we found it far from slow."
"Well, Katherine!" cried Mrs. Ormonde, when her sister-in-law returned, "you seem to have fallen on your feet here. Pray who is that fine, elegant girl who seems so fond of you?" "She is the daughter of a wealthy publisher, and has been very kind to me." "Ah, yes! I remember now, Lady Carton said she would have a large fortune; and so she is your intimate friend?" "Well, a very kind friend."
I took down the receiver, and almost before I could answer the inquiry, a voice began, "This is the editor of the Wall Street Record, Mr. Carton. Have you heard anything of the rumours about Hartley Langhorne and his pool being insolvent? The Street has been flooded with stories " "One moment," I managed to interrupt. "This is not Mr. Carton, although this is his office. No he's out.
"I do hope you will be able to find my daughter," she began, controlling her voice with an effort. "Mr. Carton has been so kind, more than kind, I am sure, in getting your aid. The police seem to be able to do nothing. They make out reports, put me off, tell me they are making progress but they don't find Betty." There was a tragic pathos in the way she said it.
It is difficult to believe that the popular writer who allowed his sentimentality or rather the public's sentimentality to run away with him in such scenes as the death of Paul Dombey and Little Nell was the artist who painted the death of Sidney Carton and of Barkis, the willing.
He had heard the commotion, and, seeing ladies, came to the conclusion that it was not a police plainclothes raid, but some new game of the reformers. He stopped short in amazement at the sight of Dorgan and Ogleby. "Well I'll be " "Carton! Walter!" shouted Kennedy. "Take care of him. Watch out for a knife or gun. He's soft, though. Carton the whistle!"
Carton," she answered, after an agitated pause, "I promise to respect your secret." "God bless you! My last application is this, that you will believe that for you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. Oh, Miss Manette, think now and then that there is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you!" He said "farewell!" and left her.
Anyhow, we shall have to take a chance. It looks to me as if he were waiting for someone didn't it to you, Walter?" I nodded acquiescence. "He has wasted no time in getting down to work," put in Carton, who had been a silent spectator of the preparations of Kennedy. "What's that thing you put on the ledge up there a detectaphone?" Kennedy smiled.
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