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"Is that how it seems to you now?" she interrupted. "Well, could we? Is it any good going over it all again? Did you ever imagine me to be the type of man who would consent to being followed, as you followed me that night? I can't suppose you did; otherwise, would you have tried to hide it from me? But I don't lose any friendly regard for you because of that."
"You stopped, and then walked back to the garden gate," my companion interrupted. "What did you do that for?" Rance gave a violent jump, and stared at Sherlock Holmes with the utmost amazement upon his features. "Why, that's true, sir," he said; "though how you come to know it, Heaven only knows.
This might not be the course to follow with every boy, but Mouchel had the artist's penetration and knew with whom he had to deal. The death of Millet's father interrupted his studies and he returned home for awhile to help his mother on the farm. But it was thought best that he should keep on with the work he had begun.
Nonsense!" his grandfather interrupted huskily. "I believe I shall be able to earn enough to take care of myself," continued Laurie steadily. "In any case I mean to try." "Of course you will!" cried the elder man heartily. "Why, aren't you expecting to be an engineer or something?" "I I hope to," replied the boy. "Certainly! Certainly!" fidgeted Grandfather Fernald nervously.
She came over here on some theatrical speculation, as one of a company who were going to do much, but who never did anything; and here she has remained. A pause ensued, which was terminated by Miss Aldclyffe. 'I understand, she said. 'As to that, madam, he interrupted, rather hotly, 'as to coming here, I am vexed as much as you.
It was some moments before I renewed the conversation, and I had scarcely done so before I was interrupted by the entrance of Benjamin Jeremiah, with a message from his aunt that dinner would be ready in a few minutes. Another long whisper to Christopher succeeded. The ci-devant fellow of Trinity looked down at his garments with a perplexed air.
"My young friend!" interrupted the hermit, taking the case in question from his breast pocket; "I should rather apologise to you for having appeared to make any mystery of it and yet," he added, pausing as he was about to open the case, "I have not shown it to a living soul since the day that Well, well, why should I hesitate? It is all I have left of my dead wife and child."
"So far it looks favorable," mentally exclaimed poor Isabel, "but there is the other side of the question. It is not only that I do not love Mr. Carlyle, but I fear I do love, or very nearly love, Francis Levison. I wish he would ask me to be his wife! or that I had never seen him." Isabel's soliloquy was interrupted by the entrance of Mrs. Levison and the countess.
"Let me assist you, and I shall have something to do in my holiday time." He was so anxious to be of use that he interrupted her before she could thank him. "Let us take alternate years," he suggested. "Did you not tell me you were searching the newspapers published in eighteen hundred and seventy-six?" "Yes." "Very well. I will take the next year. You will take the year after. And so on."
There were but two of us, my brother and I. He was an overseer of an adjoining plantation, when one day a slave escaped. He pursued him and was slain." "I have heard the story," interrupted Charles. "You have? and from his own lips?" "I have; and I do not blame the man who was seeking liberty. He was a white man, as you yourself are.
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