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But the will of the dead remained to trouble for a time the living, for it put his daughter in a painful predicament: until Crawford's property was removed from the house, it would give him constant opportunity of prosecuting the suit which Aleza had reason to think he intended to resume, and the thought of which had become to her insupportable.
Crawford's behaviour; but when the whist-table broke up at the end of the second rubber, and leaving Dr. Grant and Mrs. Norris to dispute over their last play, he became a looker-on at the other, he found his niece the object of attentions, or rather of professions, of a somewhat pointed character.
He notices what has since been proved by severe archaeological study, that most of the possible types and attitudes of marble statues had been exhausted by the Greeks long before the Christian era. Miss Hosmer's Zenobia was originally a Ceres, and even Crawford's Orpheus strongly resembles a figure in the Niobe group at Florence.
The hurrying feet of little Susy responsive to Joe's sudden call the glass of cool water from the well that in a moment touched Mary Crawford's lips and sparkled on her forehead these were the things of a moment.
"Did he ever threaten this proceeding before?" "He had hinted it, but not so definitely." "Did Mr. Hall know of Mr. Crawford's objection to his suit?" "He did." "Did he know of your uncle's hints of disinheritance?" "He did." "What was his attitude in the matter?" Florence Lloyd looked proudly at her lover. "The same as mine," she said.
Except the half-hour required for a hasty dinner, Fleming Stone devoted the intervening time to looking over the reports of the coroner's inquest, and in asking me questions about all the people who were connected with the affair. "Burroughs," he said at last, "every one who is interested in Joseph Crawford's death has suspected Gregory Hall, except one person.
And it certainly was not strange that he should have behaved as he did when his son announced the intention of marrying her, Mary Lathrop, stepdaughter of one of his former partners and victims' and adopted niece and ward of the other two. What a terrible surprise and shock Crawford's communication must have been to him!
Crawford's going or staying: but his good wishes for Mr. Yates's having a pleasant journey, as he walked with him to the hall-door, were given with genuine satisfaction. Mr.
Miss Crawford's letter, which she had read so often as to make every line her own, was in frightful conformity with it.
Miss Crawford's enjoyment of riding was such that she did not know how to leave off.
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