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Failing to trap him only added to the malignity of his enemies. Roosevelt was warned that he was "shadowed" night and day, but he laughed their scheming to scorn. It is an article of faith with him that an honest man has nothing to fear from plotters, and he walked unharmed among their snares.
They were glad to learn that he was in America, and advised me to look after him sharply. The woman was also a noted character Harriet Wollstone, an adventuress." "I suppose you have shadowed them ever since?" Kennedy asked. "Yes, a few days after they were arrested the man had an accident with his car.
She turned the key in the door with an enjoyment of the privacy thus secured such as she had never known in her life; for in maidenhood safe solitude was a matter of course to her, and since marriage she had not passed a night alone. Willie was fast asleep in a little bed shadowed by her own.
At times he would suspend his walk, and crouch, shuddering as with fear, against the shadowed balustrade. His face was of ashy paleness, and his hair, black as night, fell in neglected masses around his head. His eyes were bright and glassy, and their expression frightful to look upon.
Her eyes were uplifted to his face, yet fell as suddenly, shadowed behind the long lashes. "I thank you very much," she said, her voice trembling, "only please don't do it again; I would rather not have you." Before he could frame a satisfactory answer to so unexpected a prohibition she had stepped forth upon the stage.
It was pathetic to see how Mr Cupples's right hand, while he looked at the cards in his left, would go blindly flitting about the spot where his glass had always used to stand; and how, when he looked up unable to find it, his face shadowed over with disappointment. After those two or three games, he threw down the cards, saying, "It winna do, bantam. I dinna like the cairts the nicht.
She was used to hover about them at this hour, but she strolled past, unmindful now, the daily habit obliterated, the dumb little tie quite broken. The twisted newspaper lay white on the shadowed pavement before her eyes and she did not see that.
Was the heart of that secret to be laid bare at last? "Yes, it's settled, Powell; and as soon as we are done here with the boomers, I'll get to work and find out what the claim is worth." "How about being shadowed in the affair?" "I'm not afraid I'm laying my plans too well," answered Louis Vorlange.
The two younger seemed hardly to have attained their full growth, though Emily was taller than Charlotte; they had cropped hair, and a more girlish dress. I remember looking on those two sad, earnest, shadowed faces, and wondering whether I could trace the mysterious expression which is said to foretell an early death.
Kirby asked, glancing at the sling his cousin wore. "Only sprained. The doctor thinks I must have twisted it badly as I fell. I couldn't sleep a wink all night. The damned thing pained so." James looked as though he had not slept well. His eyes were shadowed and careworn. They walked together as far as the outer office. A slender, dark young woman, beautifully gowned, was waiting there.
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