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She continued silent under the rush of astonishment that his words produced, and he moved a step closer to ask with low-toned directness: "Why don't you use those letters of hers you bought last year?" Lily stood speechless under the shock of the interrogation.
Although I said this, I knew in my heart it was useless to censure the poor wretch, for the fault was entirely my own in not sending two men, and in failing to guess the possibility of the jewels and their owner being separated. Besides, here was a clue to my hand at last, and no time must be lost in following it up. So I continued my interrogation of the cabman.
"And with what reason, Ralph Colleton, do you suppose that I will sanction an alliance between you and my daughter? Upon what, I pray you, do you ground your pretensions to the hand of Edith Colleton?" Such was the haughty interrogation. Ralph was confounded. "My pretensions, sir? The hand of Edith! Do I hear you right, uncle? Do you really mean what you say?" "My words are as I have said them.
It gives me almost a cousinly feeling for you." She had the air of expecting him to be interested, but he met it with the rather vague interrogation: "Cousin Jimmy?" "The cousin who always came to our help when we were in trouble. We used to say that if the bread didn't rise, mother sent for Cousin Jimmy." Though he laughed readily enough, she could see that his attention was still wandering.
He could have silenced Mr. Manx with the posing interrogation: Why have I so long consented to put myself at the mercy of a bore? For him, he could not answer it, though Manx, as leader of the Shipping interest, was influential. The man had to be endured, like other doses in politics.
His gentle firmness composed and calmed her now, as it had often done before. Stroking her thin hand, he said, after a pause, "Did Carry ever write to you?" "Twice, thanking me for some presents. They were only schoolgirl letters," she added, nervously answering the interrogation of his eyes.
Culme's secretary explained his difficulty, and the newcomer brushed it aside with a contemptuous "Oh, Mrs. Culme!" that carried both speakers a long way toward reciprocal understanding. "But then you must be " The youth broke off with a smile of interrogation. "The new secretary? Yes. But apparently there are no notes to be answered this evening."
"A thousand regrets," he said, "and as many excuses for my inability to afford the information desired." After his departure, John turned to Annunziata, where, in her grey cotton pinafore, her lips parted, her big eyes two lively points of interrogation, she sat opposite to him, impatient to take up the theme. "Well, Mistress Wisdom!" he saluted her, smiling, and waving his hand.
"And I am sure I do not seek to frighten you," says he. "But to the interrogation; and let me warn you to volunteer nothing beyond the questions I shall ask you. It may consist very immediately with your safety. I have a great discretion, it is true, but there are bounds to it." "I shall try to follow your lordship's advice," said I. He spread a sheet of paper on the table and wrote a heading.
"What's that block you're speaking of, just out of Monmouth?" enquired Wilfrid; and it being described to him, together with the exact bearings of the road and situation of the mass of stone, he at once repeated a part of what he had heard in the form of the emphatic interrogation, "What! there?" and flatly told the coachman that the stone had been moved.
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