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The card was passed round and all eyes demanded the expert's pronouncement. " where moth and rust doth corrupt and where thieves break through and steal. H'm," read Mr. Carlyle with weight. "This is a most important clue, Sir Benjamin " "Hey, what? What's that?" exclaimed a voice from the other side of the hall. "Why, damme if I don't believe you've got another!
They fell in a diapason of smashes. "H'm!" he said, regarding the wreckage with a calmer visage. "Silly!" he remarked after a pause. "One hardly knows all the time."
She asked me what I thought she'd better be, and she said all the most desirable parts were already assigned." "H'm, quite so! Oh, of course, certainly! Yes, yes, INDEED!" "What's the matter with you, Bill? Are you raving? Your speech is a bit incoherent." "Incoherent, is it? Lucky for you! If I were coherent, or said what I'm thinking, you'd be some surprised!
Surely what Rogojin said about you is not really true: that you would crawl all the way to the other end of the town, on hands and knees, for three roubles?" "Yes, he would!" said Rogojin, quietly, but with an air of absolute conviction. "H'm! and he receives a good salary, I'm told. No, no!
"No; oh, no, I assure you I did nothing of the kind. But er, have you been in the hands of the Boers since the war started?" "Yes, until our troops marched in here a day or two ago." "H'm. Did they rob you?" "No." "Did they ill-treat you knock you about, and that sort of thing?" "No." "Why do you hate them so bitterly, then?" "Oh, I can't stand a cursed Boer at any price.
"H'm!" said the captain, looking from one to the other thoughtfully; "I don't like knocking about in strange places begging for a cargo, and I don't like driving my brig through the sea light in ballast. You've took me at a weak time, sir." "Stop!" said Sir Humphrey sternly. "I don't want to take advantage of any man at a weak time and bribe him into undertaking a task over which he would repent."
I told him I was full as satisfied as I would be to have to make my way through Indians and buffaloes to get anywhere as you have to in those wild Western cities. He claimed that it was perfectly civilized around Chicago now; but of course he'd say that." "H'm," returned Mrs. Whipp, non-committally.
'H'm, it would suit her better, no doubt; but I don't know about me. Oh yes, I could leave her work to do. By all means. Thanks for telling me; I'll arrange it, said the junior partner kindly, and added, 'And take the little sister into your room if we have not quite finished, Mrs. Ryan; the waiting-room is no place for her, if she is anything like her sister.
That fact came to her knowledge only a week ago. When it did, she declared that the deceased could not be her father." "H'm!" said Jorce thoughtfully, "I am quite in the dark as to why Mr. Vrain was put under my charge." "Because Ferruci wished to marry his widow." "I see! Ferruci substituted another man for my patient and had him killed."
"H'm! why must you needs go up and change your coat like that?" asked the prince, banging the table with his fist, in annoyance. "Oh, don't be so worried on my account, prince! I assure you I am not worth it! At least, not I alone. But I see you are suffering on behalf of the criminal too, for wretched Ferdishenko, in fact!"
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