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He looked under the berth, peered into the corners, and pulled back the blanket and sheet. "There is no knife," he said stonily. And in a moment he added: "There are red stains on the window. It was not attempted suicide. It was " "Murder." "Yes, if Rossland dies. It was done through the open window. Someone called Rossland to the window, struck him, and then closed the window.
Through the blanketing fog they could discern, on the north, island after island, ghostlike through the mist, rocky, towering, majestic, with a thunder of surf among the caves, a dim outline of mountains above, like Loki, Spirit of Evil, smiling stonily at the dark forces closing round these puny men. All along Kadiak, the roily waters told of reefs.
"Crimping ain't in my line; I'd sooner sweep the roads." "'Ear, 'ear," exclaimed Mr. Smith, approvingly. "Ah! wot a thing it is to come acrost an honest man. Wot a good thing it is for the eyesight." He stared stonily somewhere in the direction of Mr. Wilks, and then blinking rapidly shielded his eyes with his hand as though overcome by the sight of so much goodness.
She did not even turn her head. Thinner a good deal since her marriage, she seemed to him to have grown taller, to have gained in dignity and presence, as she stood there before him, her angry eyes fixed upon his face. She was no longer a person to be ignored. "You must tell me about this or " "Or?" he repeated, stonily. "Or I will make a public statement," she answered.
Johanna came out to him at once; she was in hat and cloak. She listened stonily to his statement that Ephie was safe at his lodgings, and put no questions; but, on her returning to the sitting-room, Mrs. Cayhill's sobs stopped abruptly, and several women spoke at once. Johanna preserved her uncompromising attitude as they walked the midnight streets.
He had always fancied Andrew Westwood as lonely a man as in the world's eyes he was worthless; he had not known until the day of the trial that the prisoner had a child. "Your name is 'Westwood, I think?" Miss Vane began stonily. Hubert was keenly aware of the harshness of her tones. The girl nodded. "Your father is Andrew Westwood?" She nodded again, a dull red creeping into her brown cheeks.
The wife sprang to her feet, came to me with a set face, and stared stonily at the coat for an instant. Then, with a cry of alarm, she made for the door; but I stepped quickly before her, and bade her wait till she heard what I had to say. Like lightning it all went through my brain. I was ruined if she gave an alarm: all Quebec would be at my heels, and my purposes would be defeated.
"You're implying a good deal, Forrester," said Eliot gravely, as he dried his coat with his handkerchief. "Oh, I know what I'm talking about. I was there, you see, and caught the little limb of Satan red-handed, so to speak though, of course, she doesn't know it." Then, as Eliot remained stonily silent, he proceeded loquaciously: "It was last June or thereabouts.
She was rather shocked that there was no sign of mourning about any of them except Jan, who wore mainly as a concession to Hannah's prejudices a thin black coat and skirt she had got just before she left Bombay. Tony stared stonily at Hannah and decided he did not like to look at her. She was as surprising as the newly-found Piccadilly, but she gratified no sensuous perception whatsoever.
The Wrandalls had been routed from their comfortable fireside for what? They were asking the question of themselves and they were waiting stonily for the answer. "It is very stuffy in here," Vivian had said with a glance at the closed doors after Sara had successfully placed her jury in the box. "Keep still, Viv," whispered Leslie, with a fine assumption of awe. "It's a spiritualistic meeting.
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