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I have known them to do the most cold-blooded deeds." Poor Eloise! The net about her had been skilfully drawn. "I don't know Father Josef's motive, but I can trust him. And no shadow shall trouble you long, Little Lees. Jondo and Uncle Esmond tote together, Aunty Boone said long ago. They know something about the Ramero blood, and Jondo has promised to tell me his story some day.
"Have I not communicated it to you?" "But to the police ?" "Is it likely?" The woman gave him a blank stare. "Pardon, mademoiselle: but is it likely that the late André Duchemin would have more to do with the police than he could avoid?" "You would see a cold-blooded crime go unavenged ?" "Rather than dedicate the remainder of my days to seeing the world through prison bars?
Now, then, Franz, when, for services so promptly and unhesitatingly rendered, he but asks me in return to do for him what is done daily for any Russian prince or Italian nobleman who may pass through Paris merely to introduce him into society would you have me refuse? My good fellow, you must have lost your senses to think it possible I could act with such cold-blooded policy."
Beltham; none, if I resolve to take her to myself. 'Can't they! said the squire. 'A curse be on him, heaven's lightnings descend on him, who keeps husband from wife in calamity! The squire whistled for his dogs. As if wounded to the quick by this cold-blooded action, Mr. Richmond stood to his fullest height. 'Nor, sir, on my application during to-morrow's daylight shall I see her?
Oh! grace itself is the rage of the pitiful Othello to the forbearance of many a self-contained, cold-blooded, self-careful slave, that thinks himself a gentleman! Had not Faber been even then full of his own precious self, had he yielded to her prayer or to his own wrath, how many hours of agony would have been saved them both! "What! would you have had him really strike her?"
The house-sparrow, the most domestic of wild birds, gives a look-out for squalls between every peck, but it will soon learn to distinguish the person who does not molest and who feeds it, even to coming at his call, while fish, those most cold-blooded of creatures, which in an ordinary way go off like a silver flash at the sight of a shadow, will grow so familiar that they will rise to the surface and touch the white finger-tips placed level with the water.
"What a cold-blooded jest!" said he to himself. "It was not devised by a God." From that time forth he renounced a better world, and never uncovered himself when a Name was pronounced, and for him the carven saints in the churches became works of art.
But I regard my lake as a politic community, under the protection of the law, and leave its denizens to devour each other, as Europeans, fishes, and other cold-blooded creatures wisely do, in order to check the overgrowth of population. To fatten one pike it takes a great many minnows. Naturally I support the vested rights of pike. I have been a lawyer."
Hutchinson's a darned sight smarter fellow than I am, and he knows it and he's Lancashire, you bet." He stopped a minute and flushed. "As to Little Ann," he said "me make that sort of a break with HER! Well, I should be a fool." Palford was a cold-blooded and unimaginative person, but a long legal experience had built up within him a certain shrewdness of perception.
She had counted upon an impassioned plea for himself, not this terse, cold-blooded, almost unemotional summing up of the situation. For an instant she was at a loss. It was hard to look into his honest eyes. A queer, unformed doubt began to torment her, a doubt that grew into a question later on: was he still in love with her?
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