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"Does he know who the criminals are?" "Yes." "And isn't going to prosecute?" "So he told me." "What did Mr. Morse say when you made your report?" "Said, 'Thank you." "Oh, yes, but you know what I mean." "Not being a mind-reader " "About the suspect. Did he say anything?" "Said he had private reasons for not pushing the case. I didn't ask him what they were."
"Well, I don't quite class myself as a commercial traveller, you know, but in the main you are in fact, you are remarkably near right. I think you must be something of a mind-reader, as I said before, Miss Earle, or is it possible that I carry my business so plainly in my demeanour as all that?" Miss Earle laughed. It was a very bright, pleasant, cheerful laugh.
"You don't " Russell began, and his look was one of alarm. "You haven't taken up " She understood his apprehension and responded merrily, "Oh, murder, no! You mean you're afraid I break out sometimes in a piece of cheesecloth and run around a fountain thirty times, and then, for an encore, show how much like snakes I can make my arms look." "I SAID you were a mind-reader!" he exclaimed.
In the winter a man who called himself Professor Blake, a "mind-reader," gave some exhibitions of his power, which were considered wonderful. It might have been better for him, however, not to know what people thought, as it proved. A few weeks ago a man was discovered dead, with this letter beside him: "I die of a weary and a heavy heart, but of a sound mind.
Perhaps his breathing will become a degree deeper, or stop for a moment, his eyelids may make a reflex movement, his fingers may contract a bit. This remains entirely unnoticed by any one in the audience, but the professional mind-reader has heightened his sensibility so much that none of these involuntary signs escapes him.
I said 'twas yours, and just like you, too; you were the kindest-hearted man in the world, I said. Oh, you needn't look at me like that, Hosy. It's the plain truth, and you know it." "Humph!" I grunted. "If the young lady were a mind-reader she might well, never mind. What else did she say?" "Oh, a good many things. Wanted to know if her bill at Mrs. Briggs' was paid. I said it was.
It is evident from these thrilling recitals that I was not a good mind-reader of woman character; but they were as sweet as angels when I was at home, and evidently the unwonted self-restraint to thus appear reacted very forcibly when the widower was out of sight. I vowed in my wrath that I would never again speak to a woman outside my own immediate family.
The kind of disappointment you experience is not to be cured by change of place. You carry it with you, and distance increases and strengthens it, and whenever you meet the object again to whom was due the vexation you will perceive that you went on the journey for no good." Antonino looked at the speaker as one regards the mind-reader who has answered to the point.
Already some of them were beginning to act as Chaperons for Clara. They were keeping Tab on Clara's Age, too, and began to think that she would land on the Bargain Counter, and have to be satisfied with a Widower who wore a Toupee and dyed his Eyebrows. Clara was somewhat of a Mind-Reader. She knew that the Friends of her Youth were predicting a Hard Finish for her, so she decided to Fool them.
The professor himself, however, was plainly disconcerted, to the particular delight of Peters and his circle of friends, who, as the mind-reader continued to hesitate, clapped more and more loudly. Finally the seer arose. "Well, ladees and gentlemans, if you wish, certainly. Though I do read just as good with my eyes open."
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