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"She, of course, was loud in denouncing Smethurst, and the police had no doubt a very strong case against him, for two days after the discovery of the body in the barge, the Siberian millionaire, as he was already popularly called by enterprising interviewers, was arrested in his luxurious suite of rooms at the Hotel Cecil. "To confess the truth, at this point I was not a little puzzled. Mrs.
I am weary of hearing from panic-stricken interviewers that the "real Government of Ireland is that of the Land League;" but the facts adduced can hardly be passed over in silence. For the present, creditors have only two courses to pursue to accept Griffith's valuation where they can get it, or to do nothing, await the action of Parliament, and go without money for their Christmas bills.
And as certain wild birds sometimes wing their way far out to sea and are the first signal of the shore, so the first Americans the traveller meets are often American interviewers; and they are generally birds of a feather, and they certainly flock together.
However that may be, I don't want my house made the rendezvous of all the interviewers and sightseers in the neighborhood. You and I will keep our counsel, Arnold Chetwode." "Might I ask," Arnold said, "if you knew this man if you had ever come into contact with him or seen him before?" "Certainly not," Mr. Weatherley replied. "What business could I possibly have with a person of that description?
"I don't know why she should. But in case she ought, I'm bound to say she couldn't." "Why not? She said she would; she said so to me." "She couldn't have said so. You must have misunderstood her. I left no address, you know; and I had no difficulty in eluding interviewers not being a prize-fighter or a minor poet." Sir Roderick smiled. "Gad! I never thought of that. She held me, after all."
His great defect is flippancy, and a total want of self-possession." The narrator also dwells on his horror of interviewers, by whom at this time he was even more than usually beset. One visitor of the period ingenuously observes "Certain persons will be chagrined to hear that Byron's mode of life does not furnish the smallest food for calumny."
And then she was once more handed over to her old enemies, the interviewers; and after them came the representatives of the company, and then more special reporters, and then an artist from one of the illustrated papers, who insisted upon her giving him an appointment in language that, though polite, indicated that he meant to have his way; and so on till nearly midnight, when she rushed off to bed and locked her door.
I encountered a couple of really admirable women interviewers, not too young, and a confraternity of men who did not disdain an elementary knowledge of their business. One of these arrived with a written list of questions, took a shorthand note of all I said, and then brought me a proof to correct.
Henderson's least movements were always chronicled and speculated on, and for years he had been one of the stock subjects, out of which even the dullest interviewers, who watch the hotel registers in all parts of the country, felt sure that they could make an acceptable paragraph. The arrival of his wife, therefore, was a newspaper event. They said in Washington at the time that Mrs.
Lucy had never spoken to him in such a way before, and wrath flamed up in his heart, wrath mixed with hopeless love. He paused for a moment to command himself. 'You don't know apparently that interviewers went to him from the evening papers, and he refused to speak. 'He has never consented to be interviewed. Why should you expect him now to break his rule?
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