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Elinor's compassion for him increased, as she had reason to suspect that the misery of disappointed love had already been known to him. This suspicion was given by some words which accidently dropped from him one evening at the park, when they were sitting down together by mutual consent, while the others were dancing.

Even Merlin's law of the suspect had so far failed to touch him.

Of course, I know," she will say, proudly, "but there are others who do not, who are always ready to suspect, and I will not have them pity me!" When nearly all the married friends a spinster has have come to her with the same story, the variations being individual and of slight moment, she begins to have serious doubts of matrimony as a satisfactory career.

Chiffield," said he, "as a wholesale dealer in dry goods, you must have observed, perhaps at times experienced, the fickleness of fortune." "Can he suspect?" thought Chiffield. "And what if he does? The truth cannot be concealed much longer. But I will pump him a little further before disclosing all."

"He's too suspicious for me, and I hate a man to be suspicious. . . . But he's the man I suspect." "Where does he live?" "Union Place two flights o' steps below John Peter Nanjulian's left-hand side as you go up. But you can't have it out with him on suspicion only." "Can't I?" said 'Bias grimly.

Everything is vulgar that pretends to be what it is not. Priggishness is an artificial mental condition that is far more common than people generally suspect. We are most of us prigs, if we only knew it. The man who is unable to get rid of conventions and to think for himself is a prig. England is peopled with them.

"Bryan," said he, "I know the agent to be a scoundrel, and what is nearer the case still, I have every reason but you must not ask me to state them yet, I have every reason to suspect that it is Fethertonge, countenanced by Chevydale, who is at the bottom of the distillation affair that has ruined you.

Striking through the country, so as to avoid some infantry camps, he soon reached the road leading from Fairfax Station to the Court House. Moving now with perfect confidence, as no pickets along this route would suspect the character of such a cavalcade several miles inside our lines, about two o'clock in the morning he entered the village and began operations.

Gower has a very striking head, something about it Moorish or Spanish, like a picture by Murillo I half suspect that he is less a Gower than a gypsy!" "What!" I cried, as I listened with rapt and breathless attention to this description.

Rolf Morton came at his summons; and understanding the "Saint Cecilia" was shortly to return to Lerwick, not having reason to suspect fraud of any description, he, without hesitation, took the ship on to Eastling Sound.