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Between the ribs rose a long spike-like dagger made from a butcher's sharpening knife, its keen point buried in the spine. 'You will observe, said the commissary to the officer and to me as he took out his note book, 'that the woman must have fallen on her dagger.
It was certainly remarkable that such an old and feeble man, with no neck at all, who looked indeed as if he might go off with apoplexy any moment, should actually say that he "stood or fell" by this purchase, knowing that if he fell he would be a beggar. Why should the old chap be so keen on getting it through? It would do him personally no good, unless Exactly!
Rosenbaum betook himself to a quiet corner of the office, which served also as a reading-room, and soon was apparently absorbed in a number of Eastern papers, both English and German, though a keen observer would have noted that the papers were occasionally lowered sufficiently to give the eyes again concealed beneath the hat-brim an opportunity for reconnoitering the situation.
These voices, these hands were an integral part of her world as necessary and as dear to her as those of her friends in the flesh. As she talked on I experienced a keen pang of regret. "Why disturb her belief in the spirit world?" I asked myself. "Why attempt to reduce her manifestations to natural magic?
He paused, and, surveying it attentively, remarked to those at work upon it as follows: "You have here another long building going up rapidly; and," he added, "is this the place where our children are to be educated?" Such keen and well-merited rebuke rarely falls from human lips.
"Impossible," returned the captain, impatiently. "How could such a child do it?" "What string for, cap'n?" asked Long Hair, pointing to the twine that hung from the gun triggers, which, being so near the color of the walls, had been detected only by the Indian's keen glance.
Immediately afterwards, however, he added: "You'll make his little future very difficult." I declared that I wouldn't for the world take any liberties with his little future it seemed to me to hang by threads of such delicacy. I should only be highly interested in watching it. "You Americans are very keen," he commented on this. "You notice more things than we do."
You yourself know how keen a connoisseur he is, and how often this has been confirmed by our greatest masters.
I believe Jacob understood how keen was my sorrow at thus parting, when the chances were that we would never meet again in this world, for, as if to put an end to the agony, he turned abruptly, not even stopping to press my hand, and in an instant was lost to view amid the gloom of the forest.
The keen interest had passed out of Holmes's expressive face, and I knew that with the mystery all the charm of the case had departed. There still remained an arrest to be effected, but what were these commonplace rogues that he should soil his hands with them?
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