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Updated: July 4, 2025
I'd stake my life on it, if it were necessary." "How do you proceed to explain the identification and burial of Liane Devereux's body if she is now alive in Cairo?" "I don't pretend to explain yet. There was a mistake that's all I can say." "Liane Devereux was too well known for that to be possible.
Devereux's contemplation of the animated tête-
Lord Romfrey liked her calm resignation. 'There's a Mr. Lydiard, he said, 'a friend of Nevil's, and a friend of Louise Devereux's. 'Yes; we hear from him every four hours, Rosamund rejoined. 'Mention him to her before me. 'That's exactly what I was going to tell you to do before me, said her husband, smiling. 'Because, Everard, is it not so? widows... and she loves this gentleman!
"It came from the direction of Colonel Devereux's battery though I remember distinctly he told me that this was not a field day." It was clear to Geoffrey's eye that Dacre was suffering under some heavy fear or despondency that quelled his excitement. There was a look in his face of tense expectancy that was pitiful to his friend.
Toole, without whom no jollification of any sort could occur satisfactorily in Chapelizod or the country round, was this evening at the 'King's House, of course, as usual, with his eyes about him and his tongue busy; and at this moment he was setting Cluffe right about Devereux's relation to the title and estates of Athenry.
It was only a stone's-throw; but even that, on such a night, was no trifle. However, up he went to Devereux's drawing-room, and found its handsome proprietor altogether in the dumps. The little doctor threw off his sleety cloak and hat in the lobby, and stood before the officer fresh and puffing, and a little flustered and dazzled after his romp with the wind.
The knowledge of good is all yours: you see nothing but the good that men have; you see it and, I dare say, truly where I can't. The darker knowledge is mine. Puddock, who thought he thoroughly understood King John, Shylock, and Richard III., was a good deal taken aback by Devereux's estimate of his penetration. 'Well, I don't think you know me, Devereux, resumed he with a thoughtful lisp.
It is difficult to say what a shock it was to her to be greeted cheerfully by Sanchia. To see one in so painful a situation occupied by anything less painful, interested in anything at all, was truly shocking. Mrs. Devereux's idea of irregularity was that it absorbed the devoted victim, kept her aghast. If it did not, surely, there was no reward left to the virtuous.
Devereux was distinguished for his great bravery. After the War of Independence he returned to Europe, being commissioned to form a company for mining operations in Colombia, which country had appointed him envoy extraordinary to various European courts. Colonel Ferguson and Captain Talbot were both Irishmen and among the last survivors of Devereux's Legion.
But he did not move except, in the midst of Liane Devereux's story, to play nervously with an old-fashioned ring of twisted, jewel-headed serpents on the third finger of his left hand. Suddenly, as the woman finished, he raised the hand to his lips and seemed to bite the finger with the ring. Then he dropped his hand and looked at his accomplice with a strained smile.
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