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"Murdered!" stammered Vanslyperken; "yes it was murder." "What was murder, my child?" replied the old woman reseating herself. "Did I say murder, mother?" said Vanslyperken, wiping the blended rain and perspiration from his brow with a cotton handkerchief. "Yes, you did, Cornelius Vanslyperken; not that I believe a craven like you would ever attempt such a thing." "But I have, mother.
They lodged, I find, at the Mexborough Private Hotel, in Craven Street, which was actually one of those called upon by my agent in search of evidence. Here he kept his wife imprisoned in her room while he, disguised in a beard, followed Dr. Mortimer to Baker Street and afterwards to the station and to the Northumberland Hotel.
Face to face with the terror of darkness, there is hardly anything of which mankind will not repent; and I have sometimes thought that the darkest and heaviest temptation in the whole world is the temptation to yield to a craven fear, when the sincere conscience does not condemn.
Whatever she did, or hoped, or wanted, or strove for, life was really over for her, the life that is life, with its unsuspected turns, and intrigues, and passions and startling occurrences. Even if for a time such a man as Craven were hypnotized by a woman's strong will-power, such an unnatural condition could not possibly last.
Not like the flea-bitten Asiatics even niggers are better than Asiatics, though they are wallowers the American races and the South Sea Islanders the Marquesans, the Maori blood. That was the true blood. It wasn't frightened. All the rest are craven Europeans, Asiatics, Africans everyone at his own individual quick craven and cringing: only conceited in the mass, the mob.
Gillian smothered an hysterical inclination to laugh. He was so totally negligent of her presence that even this little incident had failed to make him sensible of her scrutiny. Immersed in his thoughts he was very obviously miles away from Craven Towers and the vicinity of a troublesome ward. And suddenly it hurt.
Monsieur Arbillot proposed yesterday that I should do what you advise. He even offered to inform this gentleman of my relationship to Claude de Buxieres. I refused, and forbade the notary to open his mouth on the subject. What! should I play the part of a craven hound before this younger son whom my father detested, and beg for a portion of the inheritance? Thank you!
In spite of no heel-taps when the port went round, he won the Hertford in 1907, the Ireland and Craven in 1908, and in 1910 took a first in Greats.
Bunning's face brought him to the sudden necessity of treating the nightmare as reality, for the moment at any rate. The staring spectacles piteously appealed to him "I can't stand it I can't stand it." "Hush!" Olva held his hand, and out of the fog, below in the Court, a voice was calling "Craven! Craven! Buck up, you old ass!"
Stand just there. Girls, you can all see Ruth Craven, can you not?" The girls held up their hands in token that they could. "I will therefore at once proceed to question her," continued Miss Mackenzie. There was just a moment's pause, and during that complete silence a dreadful rushing noise came into Kathleen O'Hara's head.
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