Was it Murder, Or, The Relentless CurrentG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912 - 324 էջ |
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Էջ 26
... speaking in the same hoarse whisper , as if his throat were paralysed . He noted that the two men who had been with him in the discovery answered simultaneously , " We did , " and he wondered that anyone should care to claim precedence ...
... speaking in the same hoarse whisper , as if his throat were paralysed . He noted that the two men who had been with him in the discovery answered simultaneously , " We did , " and he wondered that anyone should care to claim precedence ...
Էջ 39
... speak it in all sincerity ) is this : search your heart and tell me now , fully and frankly , the truth . If it should show me that you could not give yourself to me with the supreme love that I ask , I will release you from your ...
... speak it in all sincerity ) is this : search your heart and tell me now , fully and frankly , the truth . If it should show me that you could not give yourself to me with the supreme love that I ask , I will release you from your ...
Էջ 63
... speak so confidently when he is placed in so trying a position . The words sounded prim and in- adequate , perhaps , but they came as a great balm to Muriel's heart , for she knew her father was talking to give her time to compose ...
... speak so confidently when he is placed in so trying a position . The words sounded prim and in- adequate , perhaps , but they came as a great balm to Muriel's heart , for she knew her father was talking to give her time to compose ...
Էջ 82
... speaking in the most correct and precise tones , as if the hearer represented the whole panel of the jury . After the commonplace of greetings had been duly disposed of , with a polite- ness that irritated Jack's eager spirit , the good ...
... speaking in the most correct and precise tones , as if the hearer represented the whole panel of the jury . After the commonplace of greetings had been duly disposed of , with a polite- ness that irritated Jack's eager spirit , the good ...
Էջ 94
... Speak ! Yes , he must speak , stunned and dazed as he was . He had heard no word of the jurors ' mumbled verdict . His tired brain had been day - dreaming , but he knew now what they had thought and said of him . Turning to fully face ...
... Speak ! Yes , he must speak , stunned and dazed as he was . He had heard no word of the jurors ' mumbled verdict . His tired brain had been day - dreaming , but he knew now what they had thought and said of him . Turning to fully face ...
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Էջ 50 - Wommn, .• wilt thou have this Man to thy wedded husband, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou obey him, and serve him, love, honour, and keep him in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all others, keep thee only unto him, so long as ye both shall live?
Էջ 208 - SUNSET and evening star, And one clear call for me ! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea, But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark ! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For tho...
Էջ 197 - Ask, and it shall be given unto you ; seek, and ye shall find ; knock, and it shall be opened unto you...
Էջ 92 - Bar," rang out the sonorous words, "look upon the jury. Gentlemen of the jury, look upon the prisoner at the bar.
Էջ 138 - I did want to bring Mrs. Strange and you together, and so I chanced it. Of course, it's a sent-in dinner, as you must have inferred from the man at the door; I've given my servants a holiday, and had Claret's people do the whole thing. It's as broad as it's long, and as my husband says, you might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb ; and it saves bother.