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He produced certain evidences of this. They were not convincing; and all my enquiries and examinations of certain inhabitants led to no definite results. Yet I grew more and more to feel that enemies surrounded me." He paused to light his third cigarette, and whilst he did so I conjured up a mental picture of his "examinations of certain inhabitants."
Having refilled the petrol tank and assured themselves that the Ford was in sound running order against the morrow's needs they entered the inn. "We'll get a snack now," said Harrison Smith, "and after that take a look round and make a few enquiries." The schooners of ale provided by mine host to wash down the simple country fare were entirely agreeable to Freddie Dirk's parched palate.
He had heard a number of bedroom windows raised as he crossed the walled-in yard; he wanted no enquiries about the source and reason of the weird, syren-like howls that had brought him out in his shirt and trousers. It was his business to see that there were no more howls; and the only means that occurred to his brutal mind were those he now proceeded to put into operation.
For the rest of the time, one, two, or three of their heads protruded from the window wailing enquiries about "a little wickerwork box" whenever he drew near. There was a very stout man with a very stout wife in shiny black; there was a little old man like an aged hostler. "What CAN such people want in Rome?" asked Miss Winchelsea. "What can it mean to them?"
And in historical enquiries, the most instructed thinkers have but a limited advantage over the most illiterate. Those who know the most, approach least to agreement. The most careful investigations are diverging roads the further men travel upon them, the greater the interval by which they are divided.
"Who lived on the man's revenues as his wife, and even bore his title, and now in such an emergency as this we are to take a cock and bull story as gospel. Remember, Mr. Battle, what is at stake." "Very much is at stake, Mr. Dean, and therefore these enquiries have been made, at a very great expense. But our own evidence as far as it goes is all against us.
In some houses they would not be content until I took the chief place near the fire, and they always placed a mat upon a box for me to sit upon. My enquiries after the sick were always followed by anxious looks and deep sighs. A kind of solemn awe would spread itself at once." At length, after eight months' patient preparation, Mr.
Accordingly, in the train of years between 1820 and 1830, enquiries were made of every separate state in Europe, what were those plans and principles.
The answer to which was, very well, with thanks for his obliging enquiries. His behaviour to the Duc de Luxembourg and to other Frenchmen of quality was more distinguished. He talked yesterday to M. de Luxembourg for an hour and 17 minutes. You know how exact we courtiers are upon these points. Charles Fox was at Court, but was scarcely spoke to. Il n'en fut pour cela plus rebute.
She had done so for some years and had been in possession of some income belonging to him. But Mr. Battle was of opinion that she had never been Luigi's wife. Further enquiries might possibly be made, and might add to further results. But they would be very expensive. A good deal of money had already been spent. "What did Lord George wish?"
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