... like my wife, for instance. For heaven's sake, cut out that talk he exclaimed with uncalled for heat. I now determined to speak seriously to Charlie and beg him to avoid using such forcible expressions in my wife's hearing. Unknown to herself, she had ...

... both. Let me buy the pins and see them in your hair. She drew her sleeve away, and half turned to her nurse. But he began speaking very low and rapidly and she paused to hear. Stay. Listen for one moment do not shrink away, little golden flower. I love ...

... man in those days and then they called me, out of compliment I suppose, an angel the Angel of Death. Then again, some folks speak of me as the Sable One though I do assure you, your Eminence, that this here coat is a bit of good serge and never see'd sable ...

... that contained the other half. He stepped into the boat and shoved off without a backward look. Woorali, he muttered again, speaking the tribal name of the poisonous curare. c3en-yMinute. Stories ...

... ground, his head shattered. People gathered round me. Anxious faces bent over me. Some body grasping a reeking rifle began to speak. Are you hurt, Martin Any bones broken No? Thank the Lord for that! We spotted you from camp through glasses. Couldn't make ...

... the two white men. Looks like he is sober enough to understand now tell him what he is up against, Prendergast suggested. SPEAKING in the old Indian's native tongue, Potter laid before him the reason for his presence in this isolated spot. No word or gesture ...

... lifted her. I'm going to carry you, he announced, and strode up the path with her. She laughed softly, but still did not speak. In some curious indefin able way it did not seem at all strange to her that Shan Seaforth should be carrying her up the hill-side ...

... she was again capable of coherent speech. It hurt Pendennis to see her beautiful eyes so ravaged by sorrow. Carberry was speaking as he paced the room. Of course all these come out too late, he was saying. If I, or Simpson, or anyone else, had known ...

... journey would be over. There are other ways out than poisons. Of course. Dozens of 'em. But they're all parallel roads, so to speak. To vary the simile, you wreck the vital machine with exactly the same amount of force, only you use mechanical instead of ...

... the time I got to Paddington she had gone. Pride? Pique? Distrust? I don't know. He rested his head on his hands. I did not speak or look at him. There was something tragically pathetic in the one failure of this successful man. But in a way I liked him ...

... let her lie and just loosened everything she had on. She got over it all right in a sense, but she was never able to move or speak again. The noises she made were a trial, for half the time she was in a temper, as you could see by her eyes and of course ...

... became aware that some thing was wrong with Grogan. His eyes were distended, his lips were trying to be firm enough for him to speak. At last he almost shouted And the key. Race The key of the vault Oh, yes, said Race, still apparently unmoved, I was forgetting ...