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There was nothing wild in the defence. Fire was withheld till the moment of contact. Then it poured out at pointblank range. The carnage of that first onslaught was horrible. But the defenders suffered only the lightest casualties. They labored under no delusion. The attack would come again and again in the hope of creating a breach, and that breach was the thought in each leader's mind.
"Why in the dickens didn't he tell me about you being at Ferguson's office when we were both on the same trail?" "It's just like him not to, Mr. Kendrick. Probably he thought your work and my own would not cross at all and the less either of us knew about the other the safer it would be. Why, he even refused pointblank to tell me what he was going to do with that money the envelope that is "
"That is, I I think so." I wondered if she were concealing something, perhaps had already had a hand in some such enterprise and it had frightened her. Kennedy leaned forward, observing the girl's discomfiture. "Miss Lowe," he said, catching her eye and holding it almost hypnotically, "why have you come to see me?" The question, pointblank, seemed to startle her.
It led to Menaggio through chestnut woods. The operations of the detective from the moment that he fell headlong, apparently to rise no more, may be briefly chronicled. When his enemy drew up and fired pointblank upon him, the bullet passed within an inch of Brendon's ear and the memory of a similar experience flashed into his mind and led to his subsequent action.
I asked Alec MacKenzie pointblank, and he confessed that he was guilty of George's death. 'I'm very sorry, said Bobbie. 'Why? she asked, looking up at him with tear-laden eyes. 'Because I know that you were very much in love with him, he answered. Lucy flushed. But she had much more to say. 'I was very unjust to you on the night of that dance.
What is the sign in them of their ignorance of God? For whom he hath sent, him ye believe not. 'How so? the Jews might answer. 'Have we not asked from thee a sign from heaven, and hast thou not pointblank refused it?
Christmas Day in Sweden being followed by a Second Christmas Day, equal to the first one in leisure if not in sanctity. No one had any time to spare for the boy, who found himself in the way wherever he turned. In the end he was ordered pointblank out of the kitchen, where his mother, Granny and the servant girl needed all the space at their disposal.
Let them be, let them be! They spoke about Ole; they mentioned Aagot. Tidemand wanted to look her up some day. Ole had asked him to do it; he felt, in a way, responsible for her. But the nurse came and wanted to put the children to bed. However, the children had no idea of going to bed; they refused pointblank.
"It may be so." The young fellow was now glancing about the kitchen, as if to rid himself of this talk. "Or perhaps he dwells in private lodgings when he is at Montoire," I went on resolutely. "It might well be. There are private lodgings to be had there." "Do you know much of this Monsieur de Merri?" I asked pointblank, in desperation. "I have seen him two or three times." "Where?" "Where?
"I let Corinne go back to work this morning, you see not that she's well again yet by a good deal, or that that's the place for her at any time. However.... You saw Mr. Heth himself?" "Yair. I saw him last time I'll fool with him, too! Says he guesses the law's good enough for him. Told me pointblank he wouldn't spend a cent till he had to. How's that for public spirit?"
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