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"Try the study!" came a voice that sounded like Bristol's, save that it was strangely weak and shaky. Almost simultaneously the Inspector himself threw open the bedroom door and, very pale and haggard-eyed, stood there looking across at me. It was a scene unforgettable. "Mr. Cavanagh!" he said huskily "Mr. Cavanagh! Thank God you're alive!
On he went, past shambling figures indistinct in the dusk; past figures that slunk furtively aside, or crouched to watch him from the gloom of some doorway; past ragged creatures that stared, haggard-eyed; past faces sad and faces evil that flitted by him in the dark, or turned to scowl over hunching shoulders.
She welcomed him as a friend in need, unfolding the pitiful story, to the truth of which her nervous condition bore eloquent testimony. Sir Lucien began to pace up and down the charming little room in which Rita had received him. She watched him, haggard-eyed. Presently: "Leave Kazmah to me," he said.
"I will work; I will go where I cannot be hunted into a deeper hell than my accusing conscience brings up!" There was a grim vigilance in every movement of Dennis McNerney as he watched the now haggard-eyed Braun in the tank cell far below the decks, where Fashion's children gaily chattered.
I am very much afraid that your expedition into Burgundy will be of none avail, and that, haggard-eyed and morose, you will drop in upon a quiet family utterly amazed at your domiciliary visit.
Her dress caught her feet and she fell on her knees and scrambled up again, gasping; she dashed across the huge dark hall, and, hurling herself against the door of the morning room, appeared, dishevelled, haggard-eyed, and with scarlet patches on her wild, white face, before the Dowager, who started angrily to her feet: "Where is Nigel? Where is Nigel?" she cried out frenziedly.
In less time than it takes to tell of it, he was dragged inboard, and lay panting and exhausted upon the steeply inclined deck of the wreck, with a curious crowd of haggard-eyed anxious men and women gathered round him.
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