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Yet, clearly, they are not the objects of our search either, though many words have been wasted on them. So much then for these.
He was asked why he had assured the officer he had no duplicates? He replied, that he had not said so; but Mr. Cornell, who was present during the search, averred that the prisoner had most positively declared that he had not a pawnbroker's duplicate in his possession. "Mr.
"Yes: fell overboard from a tug; the men on board tried to save him, and then to recover his body, and couldn't do either. Some of his people came down here in pursuit of it, and I was detailed with a squad to help them in their search.
In this search, who knows what he thought and what he sought? Bread for hunger light in darkness? Who knows what he expected to find impersonal knowledge of the human heart the end of his private subterranean tragedy for, again, who knew, but that each dark couple, unnamed, unnameable, might not be he and she?
"Nevertheless, you must have a change. Doctor Jessop insists upon it. Here have I been beating up and down the country for a week past 'Adventures in Search of a Country Residence' and, do you know, I think I've found one at last. Shouldn't you like to hear about it?" I assented, to please him. "Such a nice, nice place, on the slope of Enderley Hill.
"I suppose so," she answered dubiously. "But now that his death is reported?" "Exactly, Mademoiselle. The affair has been arranged so that the search for your brother will be abandoned and the espionage on you removed.
He knew his mother was under the influence of some unusual emotion, and he judged that this house-to-house search for a spy had touched a soft heart. "Mother," he said, after supper, "I think I shall go out for awhile this evening." "Do go by all means," she said. "The young like the young, and I wish you to be with your friends while you are in Richmond." Prescott looked at her in surprise.
She got up and tried to find the road. She had wandered from it in search of a resting place, and now it was lost. She could not find it anywhere. She was afraid to venture far from the grassy mound, yet the road was but a short distance away.
So Daisy lay slowly turning the pages of her Bible, looking for some word that might catch her eye and be a help to her. There were a good many marks in the Bible, scattered here and there, made by its former owner. One of these stopped Daisy's search, and gave her something to think of.
“Some,” he continues, “even went a step farther, and protested that, after all the search they had made in the book, they had never stumbled upon these propositions, and that they had, on the contrary, found sentiments entirely at variance with them.
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