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To pray and to obey are the only commands laid upon an oppressed people, who submissively bow to the yoke, and even suffer themselves to be driven to prayers by the cudgel! A police-officer is especially appointed to enforce the prescribed attendance upon the church and prayer-meetings. I saw him in the exercise of his functions, armed with a bamboo-cane, driving his herd to the spiritual pasture.

"He'd been to look after his mother in the country, at the place I told him and the more fool me for telling and he thought he spotted her, but it was some other old woman, and while he was talking to her, there to be sure and if he didn't see a police-officer after him!" "What did he do on that?" "Oh, he run for it, and was all but took.

Honoria was fain to be patient, to put her trust in heaven, and, beneath heaven, in this pragmatical little police-officer, who really felt as much compassion for her sorrow as it was possible for a man so steeped in the knowledge of crime and iniquity, and so hardened by contact with the worst side of the world, to feel for any human grief.

There was a tale that some police-officer, late at night, saw a woman's head without a body, nibbling fruit from a tree overhanging some garden-wall; and that, knowing it to be a nuke- kubi, he struck it with the flat of his sword. It shrank away as swiftly as a bat flies, but not before he had been able to recognize the face of the kamiyui.

The detective's cool use of Winifred's right name, and of the name by which Rachel Craik herself ought to be known, was positively demoralizing. Fowle, too, was greatly alarmed. The police-officer said nothing about not wanting him. With Voles's superior will withdrawn, he began to quake again. But Rachel was a dour New Englander, of different metal to a man from the East Side.

He marched in defiantly, staring insolently at the police-officer and at the magistrate. He displayed no emotion when he saw Mary Drennan. She looked at him, and once more shook her head. "Are you sure?" said Chalmers. "Quite sure?" "I am sure," she said. "He is not the man I saw." "Remove him," said Chalmers. Murnihan stood erect for a moment before he turned to follow the sergeant.

This was business, and the police-officer knew what he had to do. "Run, Jules," he said to a colleague. "You know where M. Bontoux lives. Tell him he is wanted at the Hôtel Paradis." Then, turning to the woman, he said, "Now, madame, explain yourself." "It is a murder, I am afraid. A gentleman has been stabbed." "What gentleman? Where?" "In the drawing-room, upstairs.

What, you know him, do you?" He was so quick that he saw it in an instant. "Yes, I know a little of him and have called upon him at this place." "Indeed, sir?" said Mr. Bucket. "Then you will be so good as to let me leave Miss Summerson with you for a moment while I go and have half a word with him?" The last police-officer with whom he had conferred was standing silently behind us.

I don't know his name, but he came here frequently. My husband will perhaps be able to tell you; he is there." "Lead on," said the police-officer; "take me to the place. I will see to it myself."

He hesitated, almost confused under her steady gaze. "I am presuming that you would rather reply to me than be questioned by a police-officer?" "I do prefer it, sir." "Then," said the Doctor, "this man who so murderously attacked you you can tell nothing about him?" "Nothing, sir I know nothing." "Absolutely nothing?" "Absolutely!" "You do not know his motive?" "Ah, sir you forget! He robbed me."