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You remember how I coughed on board that miserable ship." I did remember it very well. He went to the inner door, looked in, and then came back to me. "Seraphina needs a guide a controller someone very strong and gentle, and kind and brave. My uncle will never ask her to marry against her wish; he is too old and has too little will.
Clasping his hands behind him to avoid making the sign of the cross, he coughed respectfully and began: "They say that there is nothing on earth more evil and impure than the devil, but I am of the opinion, your honor, that the devil is highly educated. He has excuse my saying it hoofs and a tail behind, but he has more brains than many a student."
He turned his torch on to the broken end. "A clue?" Tallente asked him lightly. The other turned away. "It is not my place, sir," he announced, "to share any discovery I might make with a person who has deliberately refused to assist the law." "No one has convinced me yet," Tallente replied, "that Palliser's disappearance is a matter in which the law need concern itself." The inspector coughed.
He would have given much to have seen the galloping, tumultuous thoughts, which, chaotic at first, became as orderly as heaven at their master's wish. Impatient at a silence promising to be interminable the Russian agent coughed suggestively. Kolinsky, with leisurely indulgence, looked up while the sneering smile deepened the lines about his mouth. The face of his vis-
Evan coughed and spat upon the ground, and while he cleaned away his spittle with a foot he said: "Courting business have I on the Thursdays. The wench is in a shop draper." "How shall I mouth where she is? With Wright?" "In shop Breach she is." He spoke this in English: "So long." In that language also did Mrs. Jenkins answer him: "Now we shan't be long."
Nic coughed almost convulsively. "Yes, that's it, that's it! Just keep that up. Come along now. Quick- not a moment to lose! Steady! You're all right, my boy; you've got nerve, and that's the thing. Good-bye, Nic, good luck to you!" They grasped hands: the door opened swiftly, and Nic stepped outside. In an instant Ferrol was at the loophole. Raising a rifle, he fired, then again and again.
'Yes, returned Doyce. 'But not his daughter? said Clennam. 'No, said Doyce. There was a pause on both sides. Mr Doyce, still looking at the flame of his candle, slowly resumed: 'The truth is, he has twice taken his daughter abroad in the hope of separating her from Mr Gowan. 'There Clennam choked, and coughed, and stopped. 'Yes, you have taken cold, said Daniel Doyce.
She played consumption on Pa, and coughed so she liked to raise her lights and liver, and made Pa believe she couldn't live, and got the doctor to prescribe a fur lined circular, and Pa went and got one, and Ma has improved awfully. Her cough is all gone, and she can walk ten miles. I was the one that was sick.
Congreve made a savage thrust at his eyes and wiped them both, blew his nose long and earnestly, coughed several times without any apparent necessity, and then subsided into a chair.
Never, it seemed to him, could he feel clean again until he had wiped off those fleas with gore. To his grim inquiry Colonel Cowles replied that the head proof-reader, Mr. Pat, was responsible for typographical errors, and Mr. Pat did not "come on" till 6.30. It was now but 5.50. Queed sat down, wrote his next day's article and handed it to the Colonel, who read the title and coughed.
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