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What say you, shall it be so?" "Ten thousand pounds from Count Peschiera!" said Randal, breathing hard. "You cannot be serious? Such a sum for what? for a mere piece of information? How otherwise can I aid him? There must be trick and deception intended here." "My dear fellow," answered Levy, "I will give you a hint. There is such a thing in life as being over-suspicious.

These things we may leave to development; and with a caution to the reader not to be over-suspicious, we will follow our Nisa, Rachel Grierson, as she proceeds from the house of the merchant-burgess up the High Street, at a period of the evening of the same day when the shadows of the tall lands wrapped the crowds of loiterers and passengers almost in utter darkness; not that she chose this time for any purpose of secrecy, for she had no secret, except that solitary one which every young woman has, and holds, up to the minute of conviction, that she is engaged, after which it becomes a flame blown by her own breath, but simply because it suited the routine of her duties.

He told me plainly that it was the policy of his government to conciliate Germany, and he considered that a good deal of the ill-feeling in the past had been due to the fact that we were always over-suspicious of Germany and her actions.

Such a sum for what? for a mere piece of information? How otherwise can I aid him? There must be trick and deception intended here." "My dear fellow," answered Levy, "I will give you a hint. There is such a thing in life as being over-suspicious. If you have a fault, it is that. The information you allude to is, of course, the first assistance you are to give.

We are people who live in perils, and we may be over-suspicious." "Madame, I have no complaint to bring against you." Both men were shivering, and she directed them to places on the settle. They sat where the vagrant girl had huddled. Father Jogues warmed his hands, and she noticed how abruptly serrated by missing or maimed fingers was their tapered shape.

"Thinkest thou not, Nigel, his grace trusts but too fully to the honor of these Englishmen?" asked Alan, somewhat abruptly, turning the conversation from the dearer topics of Agnes and her mother, which had before engrossed them. "On my faith, if he judge of them by his own true, noble spirit, he judges them too well." "Nay, thou art over-suspicious, friend Alan," answered Nigel, smiling.

Lyman seemed made for the place. While allied by every tie of blood to the ranching interests, he had never been identified with them. He was city-bred. The Railroad would not be over-suspicious of him.

"Over-suspicious or not," answered Randal, "the amount of the sum is too improbable, and the security too bad, for me to listen to this proposition, even if I could descend to " "Stop, /mon cher/. Business first, scruples afterwards. The security too bad; what security?" "The word of Count di Peschiera." "He has nothing to do with it, he need know nothing about it. 'T is my word you doubt.

"I may be over-suspicious I may wrong the dear child but " Aunt Grace looked unusually serious. "But what?" Mrs. Markland had grown instantly pale at the strange words of her husband's sister. "John, the gardener, says that he saw Mr. Lyon on the day after Edward went to New York." "Where?" "Not far from here." "Deceived, as Edward was. John saw our new neighbour, Mr. Willet."

A great weight of responsibility rests on those who from the first hour of Ireland's opportunity ingeminated distrust to an over-suspicious people. For the moment, however, the attack made no headway. Irishmen have a shrewd political sense, and they felt that in the struggle to pin Liberal Ministers to the true fighting objective Redmond had won.