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I swallowed hard, but managed to control my voice, "As a matter of fact, Count Tarnowsy," I said, resorting to unworthy means, "I have every reason to believe that Hohendahl sold the originals sometime ago, and had them replaced on the ceilings by clever imitations. They are not worth the canvas they are painted on." He started.
Francis, where the religious of his Order are always charitably received. This lesson is taught by the apostle: "That God, by His blessing, gives to charitable persons the means of continuing and multiplying their good works." The invalid was replaced on the ass, and they took the road to Chiusi which they reached by noon.
I made him my adieux, such as they were, this evening; and never more shall he enter the walls of Bartram-Haugh while we two live. Uncle Silas replaced the papers which had ostensibly interested him so much, and returned.
Let us retrace our steps a little and give the chief facts as to how a Bulgarian Empire for a time a very short time replaced the Roman Empire over a great area of the Balkan Peninsula. The historian, rightly, must always march under a banner inscribed "Why?"
Well, how do you account for this? How do you think it could have happened?" "Happened?" I repeated dully. "Why, yes, how in the name of the infernal powers did this thing happen?" Indeed, on thinking it out, it seemed incomprehensible that it should just be like this: the bottles emptied, refilled, rewrapped, and replaced.
Every now and then he laughed unpleasantly. "'I have never seen any one out of your world before, he said. 'I dare say you have never spoken to any one out of mine except to toss us alms. Come and see where I live. "He insisted, and I went. I found myself in a lodging-house, now pulled down and replaced by one of Lord Rowton's tenement houses.
The paintings in the princely collections in Rome are, with the exception of those in the Borghese gallery, far removed from princely. A large proportion of their best paintings had long since been sold to the royal collections of northern Europe, and had been replaced either by copies or by works of inferior masters.
The little girl came back out of breath to her work; but what was her surprise and sorrow to find it spoiled. She twisted and untwisted, placed and replaced, the bobbins, while the footman stood laughing at her distress. She got up gently, and was retiring into the house, when the silver laced footman stopped her, saying, insolently, "Sit still, child."
Its contents seemed to give him much solid satisfaction; and when at last he locked the volume and replaced it in his secretary, it was with that careful respect which he considered due to the representative of so many thousand pounds. He was in a placid mood, and strangely inclined to retrospection.
The reason Josie stayed up so late was because she carefully examined every paper and copied most of those she had found. But toward morning she finished her self-imposed task, replaced the papers, slid the secret panel into place and then dragged the rather heavy piece of furniture into the far end of the deep closet that opened off her bedroom.
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