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Hilyard, accompanied by Forrester and very often by Robin in addition, might have been seen descending to Berrier Cove, the favourite bathing beach of the neighbourhood. Quite frequently, too, Lady Susan would join them in the water she was an excellent straight-forward swimmer, though "without any monkey tricks," as she regretfully acknowledged.
He was said to have been mixed up with some troubles connected with Irish affairs, and that the name he went under was assumed. Whether this was so or not, I found him to be a fine, straight-forward man, and was greatly affected when in 1894 his charred remains were found on the run. The mystery of his death remains undiscovered.
"The danger lies in the fact that the college has the power to depose as well as to elect." "Ah! And do the Electors threaten to depose?" "No. Treves is much too crafty for any straight-forward statement of policy.
"Joanna was another sort of person, and perhaps he showed good judgment in marryin' somebody else, if only he'd behaved straight-forward and manly. He was a shifty-eyed, coaxin' sort of man, that got what he wanted out o' folks, an' only gave when he wanted to buy, made friends easy and lost 'em without knowin' the difference.
Sir Seymour, who had the self-contained and rather detached manner of the old courtier, mingled with the straight-forward self-possession of the old soldier thoroughly accustomed to dealing with men in difficult moments, threw in a word or two occasionally.
Lieutenant de Maupas had been a sailor; and his quickness of decision and go-ahead, straight-forward way of doing everything made him, at once, a favorite and an amusement to the men; who had nicknamed him "Grande Vitesse," or, as we should say in English, the "Express." "I am afraid the matter is rather more difficult than you imagine, De Maupas," Major Tempe said, with a smile.
Set your mind completely at rest.” “Gentlemen, I thank you. I knew that you were honest, straight-forward people in spite of everything. You’ve taken a load off my heart.... Well, what are we to do now? I’m ready.” “Well, we ought to make haste. We must pass to examining the witnesses without delay. That must be done in your presence and therefore—”
"It is but right," he reflected, controlling the first honorable impulse which revolted at this secret method of gaining information; "there is some mystery which can never be fathomed by straight-forward questions. I will not listen meanly; but proper or not, if Lina French is in this house I will speak with her!"
George H. Jackson a negro, came forward and told a very plain straight-forward story of having driven, Jackson, Walling and Pearl Bryan in a surey drawn by a gray horse from Cincinnati to the scene of the murder.
He seemed quite indignant when I suggested that he had been having an extra glass the night before, and I was obliged to pacify him by keeping as grave a countenance as possible during his story, which he certainly narrated in a very straight-forward and matter-of-fact way. "I was on the bridge," he said, "about four bells in the middle watch, just when the night was at its darkest.
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