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But a sharp exclamation of protest escaped from Beard's lips when Greig opened the door and deferentially showed a young woman into the room. "Miss Burden who brought you here?" demanded Luckstone, bolting out of his chair. "A detective came for me," she answered in a low voice.
The applause died down, and the singer stood rigidly in front of the platform while the pianist played the opening of Verdi's Caro nome. Then her voice sounded very clear and bell-like in the deep silence of the great hall. ... She sang Solveig's Song by Greig and A Pastoral by Veracini, and then the satiated audience allowed her to retire from the platform.
Far from uniting in a conspiracy to shield him, they would have allied themselves with us to avenge the death of the merchant." Manning and Greig were listening with faculties intensely alert, carried along by the irresistible course of Britz's logic. They were compelled to acknowledge to themselves that Collins had been effectually eliminated as the murderer.
Samuel Greig was a distant relation of the Charters family. His father, an officer in the British navy, had been sent by our government, at the request of the Empress Catharine, to organize the Russian navy. Mr. Greig came to the Firth of Forth on board a Russian frigate, and was received by the Fairfaxes at Burntisland with Scotch hospitality, as a cousin.
Wiping the moisture from the corners of her eyes, she accepted the chair which Greig offered, settling herself in it as if she had come for a long stay. There was an awkward pause, which was broken by Greig: "This lady, Miss Strong, has valuable information." She turned her moistened eyes on Britz, who, through half-closed lids, was endeavoring to appraise her.
She was born at Jedburgh on 26th December 1780, and when twenty-four married her cousin, Captain Greig, a member of a family of Scotchmen who had settled in the Russian navy. Her first husband died two years afterwards, and six years later she married Dr. William Somerville, also her cousin.
It had the charm and freedom of the desert in it, and was as foreign as the strange brown faces that lifted toward us as they sang. "What is that music?" asked the Kansans of a New England boy in khaki who had been playing Greig that day for them on the piano. "That," nodded the youth toward the Armenians.
Her first husband, a gentleman of the name of Greig, regarded her pursuits as her parents had, simply with indifference. Dr. Somerville, her present husband, has taken the utmost pains to secure her time for her studies, and has himself relieved her from many household cares. The simplicity of character which belonged to her in early life was not lost when her reputation became established.
On this occasion a solitary and belated voice was raised in defence of the Jews, without evoking an echo. A member of the Council, Admiral Greig, who was brave enough to swim against the current, submitted a "special opinion" on the proposed statute, in which he advocated a number of alleviations in the intolerable legal status of the Jews.
"The Coroner turned the commitment papers over to him." "Did Beard make any statement on the way to jail?" "Not to Muldoon. But he telephoned to a lawyer named Luckstone." "Very well. Now come with me." After leaving Manning's office, Britz and Greig proceeded to the Federal Building.
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