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Casting a suspicious, lightning glance at Janet, she snatched up the vanity case and covered the coin with her foot. "Lock the doors!" she cried, with an hysteric giggle. Then removing her foot she picked up the coin surreptitiously. To her amazement her sister made no comment, did not seem to have taken in the significance of the episode.

He turned on her quite angrily. 'Very fine talking! Lock up all the pleasure I have in life! Thank you! 'I'm quite sure you'll never get the exhibition if you have your head in this. 'I shan't get the exhibition any way. 'But if you do your utmost for it? 'I shall do my utmost! 'You can't if you have these tunes always running in your head, and are always wild to be picking them out.

As the agent's mind dwelt only on the glorious fact that he had been handed six months' rental in advance, after charging a rate per month which was three times more than the house was worth. Beyond that he was not interested in the tenants. The august tribunal had taken pains to lock the front door after them.

He had not once looked toward Mary Hope, but he turned now as if he were going to say good-by and take himself off; as if mending the lock had really been his errand, and no further interest held him there. He surprised a strange, wistful look in Mary Hope's eyes, a trembling of her lips. She seemed to be waiting, fearing that he meant to go without any further overtures toward friendship.

He reports marks on the lock as if somebody had been trying to pick it before him." There was no further entry. "Dr. Trendon is right," said Barnett. "Whatever happened and God only knows what it could have been it happened just after the squall." "Just about the time of the strange glow," cried Ives.

Madan had been brought into close contact with prostitution through a chaplaincy at the Lock Hospital, and, like the Puritan advocate of polygamy, he came to the conclusion that only by the reform of marriage is it possible to work against prostitution and the evils of sexual intercourse outside marriage.

"No, I don't!" said Miss Polson hastily. "You'd better do it," said Chrissie, giving her a little push, "there's a dear; I'll go upstairs and lock myself in my room." The face of the captain, whilst this conversation was passing, was a study in suppressed emotions.

"You will not even let me go about the castle," said Katie. "If you barred your gates, and let me move about inside, even then it would be imprisonment; but you lock me in this cell, and then you come to mock me." "Great Heaven!" said Lopez. "Oh, señorita! won't you understand? Let me explain. This castle is full of rough, rude men. It would not be safe for you to move about.

Their compass points to the south. In building a house they make the roof first and the foundation is the last thing they put in. The key in the door turns backward to lock it. The kitchen is in the front while the best room is in the back of the house. When a Chinaman sprinkles clothes for ironing purposes he uses his mouth as the sprinkler.

No, no! on the contrary, he is excited and extols this woman whom others have possessed, as proved by these souvenirs of voluptuousness which she had left to him; and from that moment he neglects his office, his family, lets go to the winds the last vestige of his patrimony, and is found dead one day in the arbor in his garden, holding in his hand a long lock of black hair. This is the romance.