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"She gave a kind of start " "At the sight of you," said Jennings quickly. "La, no, sir. She never saw me before." "I'm not so sure of that," muttered the detective. "Did you also recognize Mr. Clancy and Mr. Hale as having visited the Soho house?" "No, sir. I never set eyes on them before." "But as parlor-maid, you must have opened the door to " "Just a moment, sir," said Susan quickly.
I saw three modern men in black coats who had begun with a perfectly sensible suspicion of a doubtful adventurer and who had ended, God knows how, half-way up a naked tree on a naked moorland, far from that adventurer and all his works, that adventurer who was at that moment, in all probability, laughing at us in some dirty Soho restaurant.
Two foreign restaurants in side streets contained a number of residents concerning whom it was difficult to obtain specific information. One of these establishments he believed to be the resort of Continental gamblers driven from Soho by the too marked attentions of the police.
Samuel Clegg, to whom the world is much indebted for the improvements he subsequently introduced into the manufacture of gas, having left Soho, directed his attention to the construction of gas apparatus. The first he erected was in the cotton mill of Mr. H Lodge, near Halifax, in Yorkshire. Mr.
A number of visitors were sprinkled about Olaf van Noord's large and dirty studio, these being made up for the most part of those weird and nondescript enthusiasts who seek to erect an apocryphal Montmartre in the plains of Soho.
"One last thing please have that house in Soho watched day and night. "Yours, etc., The Prime Minister looked up. "The enclosure?" Mr. Carter smiled dryly. "In the vaults of the Bank. I am taking no chances." "You don't think" the Prime Minister hesitated a minute "that it would be better to open it now?
So saying, he left her and turned towards Soho. Of all quarters in the queer adventurous amalgam called London, Soho is perhaps least suited to the Forsyte spirit. 'So-ho, my wild one! George would have said if he had seen his cousin going there.
He wasted no time in letting the Father Superior know that he was going to leave; in fact he told him after he had confessed to him before making his Communion on Easter Thursday. "I'm sorry to lose you, my dear boy," said Father Burrowes. "Very sorry. We are just going to open a priory in London, though that is a secret for the moment, please. Yes, some kind friends have given us a house in Soho.
My repeater was in his hand. "What!" said the inquisitive gentleman, "did any gentleman sleep on the sofa?" "Soho! soho! a hare a hare!" cried the old gentleman with the flexible nose.
An accident was it the one at Basle, which occurred about that time? detained you, laid you aside for some months, perhaps. You had not much money, you had to live, so your arrival in England was delayed. When you got here, you took a post as waitress in Soho. Only in your leisure time could you look for Mr. Parrish.
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