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In some way, too, Keith felt that Lois Huntington was concerned in his movements. He was glad to think that she was abroad. But Lois was being drawn again into his life in a way that he little knew. In the seclusion and quietude of Ridgely at that season, Lois soon felt as if she had reached, at last, a safe harbor.
There were the mails simple and obvious channel but he had a strong idea that maidens in Mohammedan seclusion do not receive their letters directly. And now, especially, Tewfick would be on his guard. Then there was the chance of a message through some native's hands.
You know the late Lord Vargrave was a man of low birth. I believe she was a widow of his own rank; she lives quite in seclusion." "How d' ye do, Mr. Maltravers? So glad to see you," said the quick, shrill voice of Mrs. Hare. "Beautiful ball! Nobody does things like Lord Raby; don't you dance?" "No, madam." "Oh, you young gentlemen are so fine nowadays!"
All was deceit and hollowness and treachery. Lone again in the universe rose the eternal I. So down into the abyss she looked, depth upon depth, and the darkness had no relief, and the deep had no end. Olivier Dalibard alone, of all she knew, was admitted to her seclusion.
Never did he sit down without there being enough before him for a small family, and as his food was all brought in cooked from a neighboring restaurant, this eccentricity of his was well known, and gave an added éclat to his otherwise hermit-like habits. To my mind, it added an element of pathos to his seclusion, and so affected me that one day I dared to remark to him: "You must have liked Mrs.
The writer has heard many tales how Lee worked rich gold deposits nearby, how he explored the river and its canyons and how, for a time, he was in seclusion among the Hava-Supai Indians in the remote Cataract Canyon, to which, there was assumption, he had brought the fruit seeds from which sprang the Indian orchards.
You're one of the dressy sort. We'll expect wonders from you." But when Darsie repaired to the seclusion of her study and set herself to the problem of evolving a fancy dress out of an ordinary college outfit, ideas were remarkably slow in coming.
A Curious Marriage. Its Result. History of a Conversion to Catholicism. Attempted Assassination. Singular Seclusion Fascination of the Duchesse de Bourgogne. Fortunes of Nangis. He Is Loved by the Duchesse and Her Dame d'Atours. Discretion of the Court. Maulevrier. His Courtship of the Duchess. Singular Trick. Its Strange Success. Mad Conduct of Maulevrier He Is Sent to Spain.
The seclusion of rural life would better enable me to put vim and inspiration into my literary efforts. But I found that the farm was too lonesome, with only hired help about me, so I secured a tenant and hied back to my city quarters. These are only a few of my undertakings. Everything was "for a short time."
I knew that seclusion and solitude were very necessary for my friend in those hours of intense mental concentration during which he weighed every particle of evidence, constructed alternative theories, balanced one against the other, and made up his mind as to which points were essential and which immaterial. I therefore spent the day at my club and did not return to Baker Street until evening.
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