... cold comfoit to discover that all one has had was the empty shell. Cassilis longed to have his rival within his reach, to speak with him face to face. He would wrest the truth from him, though he did it with his 'fingers about his throat 1 He would ask ...

... wedding. A what, Helen? I gasped. I said 'a golf wedding,' and I've always been given to under stand, Mr. Ventry, that I speak with unusual clearness. Indulged as I have been during four- and-twenty years with your ladyship's society I am in a position ...

... She came expecting to see Sir Charles, but the the woman 1 speak of saw her instead. And the woman followed, her into the square and shot her with one of those new air-pistols. The woman I speak of is quite a goocl shot. It was all quite easy, though the ...

... day. I could stand it no more. I started up and left the room without speaking. A minute later my wife joined me. Poor old Bill, I'm so sorry. But 1 didn't mean it. No don't you speak just now. I think we'd better leave this place at once. Mrs. Harper can ...

... he, must not lie hidden in your p| heart. It is not a thing to dream about. Love must p| grow and act if you would prosper. Speak to Mine and ft seek an opportunity of rising superior to your rivals.' p| One night an opportunity came. I found p| myself ...

... wireless. Tell us about that old duck o' yours, and the way you got it, said a listener eagerly. I'll thank you, Pindle, to speak respectful when you mention my chronnomeeter, replied the Admiral. But I suppose 'at what you 're after 's the yarn o' the ...

... repeated, feeling as if I were falling rapidly through space. No, said the deceitful hussy. Never. It was all a plot. Then, speaking very fast You see S you were so dense. You simply wouldn't propose to me. And I couldn't propose to you, could I? You said ...

... the same woman, or boiled in oil, said the Captain. Again Jean Beurre hesitated. He looked at Marie and opened his mouth to speak, but Marie had torn away from the grasp of the trooper and had flung herself at the Captain's feet. Oh, Sire she cried. Think ...

... Paris la, la, la, what a journey and Monsieur was English she had known all along. How asked Messager, much amused. Because I speak your tongue so well he turned the laugh on himself I might have been German, you know She made a little move of disgust, and ...

... onerous, I can devote myself to you. And I will. I thank Heaven that I have never shirked a duty however painful. You are speaking uncommonly plainly Lord Wentway exclaimed, with some show of testy heat. It is my custom, Algernon. I have that courage. ...

... circumstances, burst out the ft much-tried Mrs. Morland. And they always blame the circumstances, ft retorted Diana. I shall speak to Jack. He shall make you 8 listen to reason. ft I only wish he would, muttered the heiress to herself. Bother chaperons ...

... table, sat bolt upright, and babbled, with half-a-dozen halts, the words of Stevenson's prayer. Only at the last of it did he speak without halting. The final phrase came in a mechanical, foolish rush Bring us to our resting-beds weary and content and un ...