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She's as sweet and lovely a girl as ever my two heyes looked on. I never saw nothink like 'er golden 'air it's quite 'eavenly, ma'am, if I may use the hexpression." "Oh! she is a girl then? ah! I thought so," said Miss Peppy, with a sigh of resignation, as if the fact were a perplexity too deep for investigation, at least at that time.

When we were seated in his room beneath the hissing gas-jet, I related my adventure and the result of my investigation. "What?" he cried, jumping up. "You've unearthed another body a woman's?" "I have. And what is more, I can identify her," I replied. "Her name is Armida, and she was wife of the murdered man Olinto Santini." "Then both husband and wife were killed?"

Systematic, intelligent investigation is already developing facts the knowledge of which is essential to a right understanding of the needs and duties of the business world.

Clarke meant, as he tells us in his preface, to excite discussion, and stimulate investigation, with regard to the relation of sex to education; but he has excited a discussion, and stimulated an investigation, that, unless Ephraim is wholly joined to his idols, will not stop until a reform has been wrought in our whole social system.

All these particulars are derived from historical research; they are an induction of facts gathered by the widest investigation of the written monuments of the language.

I guess about as far as an investigation would ever get the coroner's jury would say it was the work of Pete's brother-in-law; and you know what that would mean. The Swede bristles up and says: 'That sounds like fighting talk! I says: 'Your hearing is perfect. I left him thinking hard." "Pete's brother-in-law? That reminds me," I said.

This abuse may be abated, however, by having recourse to impartial historical investigation, that will restore to the hero all his circumstantial impotence, and to the glorious event all its insignificant causes.

Isn't it an established fact that a person incurs no risk in robbing Kami-Bey?" "Had I been in your place I should have quietly instituted an investigation." "What good would that have done? Besides, the sale was only conditional, and took place under the seal of secrecy.

But that his breath came a little faster, Fairfield gave no sign of the perturbation that Heldon Foyle's presence caused him. The only question was whether Roberts had divulged anything to the detective during his absence. It was quite impossible to allow Grell's visit to him to be used in the investigation. That was not in the bargain with Foyle.

We have already said the room in which the inquest was to be held was crowded almost to suffocation, and not only was that the case, but the lower part of the house was crammed with people likewise; and there can be very little doubt but the baron would have shrunk from such an investigation from a number of curious eyes, if he could have done so; while the landlord of the house would have had no objection, as far as his profit was concerned in the sale of a great quantity of beer and spirits, to have had such an occurrence every day in the week, if possible.