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But the results as logical and inevitable as they were astounding and unforeseen were such that the move could not have been wiser had all the gods of war conspired to help the two men with shrewd advice. The searching spear-point had evidently found the brain behind the syringe of the thing; for it reared in an agony that could only have been that of approaching death, and ran amuck.
She could not appraise them, or get any real sense of their quality apart from the astounding revelation of the man behind the work. "They're wonderful!" she gasped, but "You're wonderful" were the words she stifled on her lips. He painted till the light failed him. "It's this diffused glow, this gentle, faded afternoon light that I want," he said.
Even in the dim light Brett needed no second glance to reveal to him the astounding coincidence that this mysterious prowler was Robert Hume-Frazer. "Good evening," he said politely. "Do you wish to see your cousin?" "And who the devil may you be?" was the uncompromising answer. "A friend of Mrs. Capella's." "H'm! I'm glad to hear it. I thought you could not be that beastly Italian."
He didn't completely trust her, and yet here was this astounding fact: by reason of her experience there were things he could say to her that he would never dream of saying to the girl whom he believed he loved best. And Adair, he, too "You hadn't expected that things would be like this," she was saying, "just you and I, sitting like old friends and drinking tea together.
X is a man of fifty-five, fabulously wealthy, used to command, autocratic, famous in all the Stock Exchanges of the world. When I tell you that he cried like a child ... Oh! I never had such an experience. His infatuation for Irene indescribable! Indescribable! She had made her own terms with him. He told me himself. Astounding terms, but for him it was those terms or nothing.
The letter was a somewhat long one, and the purport of it was as follows: The writer stated that, having received a most extraordinary and astounding epistle from old Mrs Keswick, which had been sent by a special messenger, she had thought it her duty to write immediately on the subject to Mr Croft, and had detained the man that she might send this letter by him.
You boast yourself lord of life and death. A lie! Death is all that you can command." Quick steps came pattering up the stairs, and before he could answer her, before he had thought of words in which to do so, Ali confronted him with the astounding announcement that there was a woman below asking urgently to speak with him. "A woman?" he questioned, frowning. "A Nasrani woman, do you mean?"
"It tells me that a higher court than those of New York has passed judgment on this astounding criminal. The aneurism has burst." I felt a soft weight fall on my shoulder. The Morning Star did not have the story, after all. I missed the greatest "scoop" of my life seeing Eveline Bisbee safely to her home after she had recovered from the shock of Denny's exposure and punishment.
An achievement that would command the respect even of Eliot Leithgow, I think. So now you see, Carse; now you know. This is my secret base, this my hidden laboratory. I take it always with me, and I travel where I will." The Hawk nodded coldly his acceptance of the astounding fact; he was too busy to make comment.
Her son-in-law, M. de Grignan, wrote to her uncle, M. de Coulanges: "What calls far more for our admiration than for our regret, is the spectacle of a brave woman facing death—of which she had no doubt from the first days of her illness—with astounding firmness and submission.
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