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To my eyes, M. Alain de St.-Yves has scarce a pleasing exterior. And yet, when I knew you were here, and was actually looking for you why, the likeness helped. As for how I came to know your whereabouts, by an odd enough chance, it is again M. Alain we have to thank.
I was aware that the minister knew more of Mary's going and her present whereabouts than I did, and, sometimes, I fancied he would gladly have told me what he knew. But he could find no opening in the armour of George Bremner for the lodgment of such information. Rita and he got to know, after a while, that the name of Mary Grant was a locked book and that Mary Grant alone held the key to it.
Hardwick; how she had been permitted to carry Ida away under false representations, and the manner in which he had tracked her to Philadelphia. He spoke finally of her arrest, and her obstinate refusal to impart any information as to Ida's whereabouts. Mrs. Clifton listened attentively and anxiously. There were more difficulties in the way than she had supposed.
Before the six months had passed, the banker's wife "got wise" to his whereabouts and his doings, and he disappeared from Reno very abruptly. About the same time the beautiful lady's actor husband learned of the affair, and sued the banker for fifty thousand dollars "heart balm" .... And so we find a fool face to face with his folly.... "Altitude," did you say?
A reward had been offered to anyone who should kill this arch-heretic; so his friends brought him disguised as a knight to the Wartburg, and very few people knew of his whereabouts. As you look through the latticed windows of that little room, the exquisite blue and purple hills of the Thüringen-Wald stretch away in the distance, and no human habitation is to be seen.
Which playful allusion to Albert de Chantonnay's pretensions was received by their object with a calm indifference. "When Jean returns," she said, practically, "I will send him to you at the Bremonts' cottage with food and clothing. But you must not attempt to communicate with us. You would only betray your whereabouts and do no good to us. We shall be quite safe in the chateau.
He had learnt it in no other way he had had no correspondence with Julia during her absence. He gathered that his mother and sisters were not ignorant of her whereabouts he never mentioned her name to them but as to this he was not sure if the source of their information had been the Morning Post or a casual letter received by the inscrutable Biddy.
The Indian lay down again; but even as his head touched the fir he began to slip softly toward the fire until his body was outside the shelter of the lean-to. Then he rolled over and over until the bushes hid him completely, and no sound came to tell of his whereabouts.
Whatever maybe the character of the building, and however difficult it may be for strangers to get to it, those living in the neighbourhood know its whereabouts, many having derived improvement from it, and if more went to it, pigeon-flying, gambling, Sunday rat hunting, tossing, drinking, and paganism generally things which have long flourished in its locality would be nearer a finish.
"And yet you know where they are?" "I didn't say I knew of their whereabouts. But I will say that I know where to find the heir, a son." "You should go to him at once, then, and give him the opportunity to pay off that mortgage on Uncle Josiah's home." "Yes, I can do that. But it isn't so simple. Right there is where I've struck the snag that has nearly driven me insane. How to do it " "How?
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