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Once, he said, he had to leave his house at a moment's notice, to take home a sick relation, and left all standing, and on coming back months after found every single stick of furniture just as he left it, and not a single article stolen, except one door-mat; his night watchman had taken it with him to another situation, leaving a humble message to the effect that he had got so accustomed to it that he couldn't sleep without it!
And because Blackie and Von Gerhard looked so pathetically concerned and so unhappy in my unhappiness my sobs changed to hysterical laughter, in which the two men joined, after one moment's bewildered staring. So it was that we did not hear the front door slam, or the sound of footsteps in the hall.
Meanwhile the three travellers had crossed the railway line, where Jimbo detained them for a moment's general explanation, and passed the shadow of the sentinel poplar. The cluster of spring leaves rustled faintly on its crest. The village lay behind them now. They turned a moment to look back upon the stretch of vines and fields that spread towards the lake.
"No, an enemy," he answered equably. She turned her head a little. It was obvious that he was speaking the truth. "So you have enemies?" "A great many," he acknowledged, "one in particular just now. Perhaps," he went on, "I should say an opponent." "If that is so," she remarked, after a moment's pause, "you should be glad that he missed the boat." Jocelyn Thew smiled. "I am," he admitted.
He reached down a hand to her, and Avery mounted beside him. "How lucky for me!" she said. "Tired, eh?" he questioned. She laughed a little. "Oh no, not really. But it's nice to get a lift. Were you coming to see Jeanie?" "Yes," said Tudor briefly. She glanced at him, caught by something in his tone. "Dr. Tudor," she said, after a moment's hesitation, "are you altogether satisfied about her?"
Everywhere the banks were crumbling as the rising flood tore at them and carried away great portions with a splash and a gurgle. "The island's much smaller than when we landed," said the accurate Swede. "It won't last long at this rate. We'd better drag the canoe close to the tent, and be ready to start at a moment's notice. I shall sleep in my clothes."
Scudder set down the candle, and shut the door, and, after a moment's hesitation, said, "My daughter, I have some news to tell you, which I want you to prepare your mind for. Keep yourself quite quiet" "Oh, mother!" said Mary, stretching out her hands towards her, "I know it. James has come home." "How did you hear?" said her mother, with astonishment. "I have seen him, mother." Mrs.
Then, after a moment's pause, he went on, "I should think there must be some exaggeration or inaccuracy in what you have heard about this lady at Gadsmere." "Not a bit, depend upon it; it has all lain snug of late years. People have forgotten all about it. But there the nest is, and the birds are in it. And I know Grandcourt goes there. I have good evidence that he goes there.
He took up an Imitation of Christ, bound in the peculiar shade of lilac which at that moment prevailed, and turned it in his hand. "You are overwrought," he said, after a moment's pause, "and I particularly dislike a scene." She did not heed him. "I listened at the door," she said, in a harsh, unnatural voice. "I am perfectly aware of it."
I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front of his lantern, and left us in pitch darkness such an absolute darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready to flash out at a moment's notice.
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