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The butler found him...." When a man has passed thirty years in the service of the Criminal Investigation Department at New Scotland Yard his nerves are pretty well shock-proof. Few emergencies can shake him not even the murder of so distinguished a man as Robert Grell. Heldon Foyle gave a momentary gasp, and then wasted no further time in astonishment.
I don't think anyone was present except us two, both of whom he well knew to be quite shock-proof, but he held his tongue. 'You would have been perfectly justified in saving your own life at any cost. You would hardly have broken the sixth commandment by doing so in this case, I suggested. 'No, said he gravely, 'and as I had broken all the ten before, it wouldn't have so much mattered.
Even the captain, in the shell-proof, shock-proof, and doubly ray-proof retreat of his conning compartment, was equally at a loss. No ship or thing could possibly be close enough to be sending out interfering waves of such tremendous power yet there they were!
The man to whom she was engaged had been put through so many flutters of fear during the last twelve hours that a new one more or less did not matter. But he was still not shock-proof. His fingers clutched a little tighter the arm of the chair. "W-what did he tell you?" Beatrice looked into his eyes and read in them once more stark fear.
For in Florence I had at once a wife and an unattained mistress that is what it comes to and in the retaining of her in this world I had my occupation, my career, my ambition. It is not often that these things are united in one body. Leonora was a good actress too. By Jove she was good! I tell you, she would listen to me by the hour, evolving my plans for a shock-proof world.
She explained to herself afterward that she ought to talk to him, that she must tell him finally of her decision not to see him again, and this was as good an opportunity as any. He was calm, absolutely satisfied as to the result, and curiously elated beneath a sturdy, shock-proof exterior. It was as if he breathed some fragrant perfume, soft, grateful, entrancing.
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