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Updated: June 16, 2025
"But I never thought she was going to be married, by Jove!" protested the rightful owner. "Look here, Molly; you shall have the furniture. The house would sell for a good bit of money. I tell you, Wentworth " Jack Wentworth did not move from the mantlepiece where he was standing, but he cast a glance upon his unlucky follower which froze the words on his lips.
The more I thought of it, the more I recoiled from the idea of throwing a frightful suspicion on Minna's mother which would overshadow an innocent woman for the rest of her life. What proof had I that she had lied to me about the sketch and the mantlepiece? And, without proof, how could I, how dare I, open my lips?
"It ain't a corpse," I says, "is it?" He turned as white as the sheet on the bed, and clutched the mantlepiece. "Good God! don't suggest such a thing," he says; "I never thought of that. Open it quickly." "I'd rather you came and opened it yourself, sir," I says. I was beginning not to half like the business. "I can't," he says, "after that suggestion of yours you've put me all in a tremble.
"I have come, madame," he replied, "to ask you to put me in the way to see and speak to the man whose photograph is there on the mantlepiece." He expected to take her by surprise, and that by a shudder, a cry, a gesture, she might betray her secret. Not at all. "Are you, then, one of M. Vincent's friends?" she asked quietly.
"I like pretty things around me," said Kara, and somehow the complacency of the remark annoyed the detective more than anything that Kara had ever said to him. The Greek went to the mantlepiece, and taking down a silver cigarette box, opened and offered it to his visitor.
All weapons are fair when we are called upon to defend our lives and our honor against rascals; and that is where we are. If we do not hasten to strike Sarah Brandon, she will anticipate us; and then" He had been leaning against the mantlepiece, close to Mrs.
He laid Mark down on a pile of bagging in a corner of a room at the head of the stairs. Then, still glancing behind him, as if fearful of being observed, the man walked over to a mantlepiece, fumbled about a bit of carving that adorned the centre, and pressed on a certain spot.
For a full minute the keen eyes of the older man, sharpened by strife and experience, looked straight into the earnest grey eyes of the young man who now stood across the room with his hand on the mantlepiece. Cable's cigar was held poised in his fingers, halfway to his lips. Graydon Bansemer felt that the man aged a year in that brief moment.
A heap of still-glowing ashes which testified to the pains taken to dispel humidity filled the fireplace, whose marble mantlepiece supported a bust of Marie Antoinette in bisuit.
Nevertheless he said in a subdued voice, "Pray explain, Maxime! Don't you know, that, as I lead a very quiet life, I know nothing?" Brevan, looking more serious than he had ever done, rose and replied, leaning against the mantlepiece, "What would you have me tell you? It is only fools who call out to lovers to beware; and to warn a man who will not be warned, is useless.
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