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Updated: May 29, 2025
She was all her old self-composed self now, a charming figure in her plain blue serge suit with a white silken shirt and black tie the best approach to mourning her wardrobe could afford. Already the short winter afternoon was drawing in. Mysterious shadows lurked in the corners of the long and narrow room. "Listen," said Mary, leaning forward. "I want to know why Mr. Parrish killed himself.
He was in smart dinner jacket; these days Barney was wearing the smartest of everything that money could secure. There was a shadow of impatience on his face, but it was instantly dissipated by Maggie's self-composed, direct-eyed beauty. "How'd you come out with Miss Sherwood?" he whispered eagerly. "Well enough for her to kiss me good-bye, and beg me to come again."
Diocletian, self-composed and strong-minded in other respects, was all his life an anxious believer in divination, which superstition led him probably to inflict summary punishment upon Aper with his own hands. He made his solemn entrance into Nicomedia in September, 284, which town he afterward chose for his favorite residence.
She went, shrinking from the ordeal, yet longing to have it over, and for a few minutes mother and daughter gazed at one another in silence. The girl's face was grave and set, but self-composed in comparison with that of Mrs Rendell, which was quivering with distress. "My dear child! What can I say to you? I can never forgive myself for my part in this disappointment.
Possibly the words of Rivers may have affected her more than she was willing to admit; but she certainly was not as self-composed as usual during that first dinner. Her wit flashed vivaciously; the Dictator thought her brilliant, and even rather bewildering. If anyone had said to him that Helena Langley was not absolutely at her ease with him, he would have stared in amazement.
It was evident from his look that nothing had been found to shed any light on the mystery; and now that his suicide theory had fallen to pieces, he was completely at sea. So, I suspected, was Grady, but he was too self-composed to betray it. The coroner drew the two physicians aside and talked to them for a few moments in a low tone. Then he turned to Grady.
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