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CROOKS AND STEEL BRACELETS: IV.--THE WEIGHT OF GUILT

... just talkin' to George. Can't I talk to George Unwillingly Don returned to the hog-pen. George Jensen strode away without speaking. Cing wondered was young Jensen planning against him Did he suspect Cing heard the increased crackling of the dried lumber ...

Published: Wednesday 07 July 1926
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3667 | Page: 72 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

PELLEAS THE PARROT

... allow him further than the doorstep, for fear he should try and poison the bird. His friend Reginald was therefore, so to speak, surprised that night when his com panion turned up at the Savil Hotel restaur ant in immaculate evening dress, but carry ing ...

Published: Wednesday 29 September 1926
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3773 | Page: 74 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

GEORGE GETS ON

... of it and it was he who taught George. Whe t saw that the boy was painfully and stumblingly try to imitate his own way of speaking, he began to tef him English, too. He was very good to George th chaplain, but somehow George liked the cook lion al He asked ...

Published: Monday 22 November 1926
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4863 | Page: 70 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

Vahine and Popaa in the South Seas: V.--THE HAND OF PROVIDENCE

... were ever scared of me or of anybody else. You mongrels shouted Preston. You dog-eaters Are you struck dumb when a white man speaks to you With that he made a rush into the thick of them. Two he caught by the neck and banged their heads together and dropped ...

Published: Wednesday 02 February 1927
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3078 | Page: 29 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

IN THE DARK

... wise, very judicial He said that the burglar had evidently been in terrupted, but it was impossible to say by what As he was speaking, one of his gloves fell at his feet. Unnoticed by any of them, Selim had taken it up to his retreat in the folds of the curtain ...

Published: Saturday 19 March 1927
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1972 | Page: 28 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

IN THE DARK

... wise, very judicial He said that the burglar had evidently been in terrupted, but it was impossible to say by what As he was speaking, one of his gloves fell at his feet. Unnoticed by any of them, Selim had taken it up to his retreat in the folds of the curtain ...

Published: Saturday 19 March 1927
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1972 | Page: 28 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

A SEEKER AFTER ROMANCE: II.-- THE AFFAIR OF THE DUCHESS OF KEWE

... that moment Sebastian learned many things. No breath of scandal had ever touched the name of the Duchess of Kewe. You might speak of her in a dozen Mayfair drawing-rooms without seeing one shrugged shoulder, one familiar gesture of outspread hands, one ...

Published: Wednesday 23 March 1927
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3337 | Page: 29 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

THE ACTRESS NUN: A Graphic Short Story

... Obedience. I intend to remain faithful to that vow to the end of my life. My dear girl Sister Eunice answered quietly Do not speak to me in such terms, Lawrence. We might be overheard. There is not the faintest danger of that, said the man impatiently ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1927
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1975 | Page: 31 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

THE ACTRESS NUN: A Graphic Short Story

... Obedience. I intend to remain faithful to that vow to the end of my life. My dear girl Sister Eunice answered quietly Do not speak to me in such terms, Lawrence. We might be overheard. There is not the faintest danger of that, said the man impatiently ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1927
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1975 | Page: 31 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

A SEEKER AFTER ROMANCE: V.--THE HONEST MAN

... that no one pushes himself so spontaneously into the limelight without excellent cause. He thinks if he offers I shan't dare speak, she reflected. Well, he '11 be surprised. Aloud she said, I have made no accusation with unmistakable meaning in the acid ...

Published: Wednesday 13 April 1927
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3020 | Page: 29 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

AN UNACCOUNTABLE DREAM

... Here again I discovered the place which I had already visited in my dream. I found my way about and knew every shop I can't speak a word of Czechish, but I just remembered where everything was. These experiences of mine are not very wonderful after reading ...

Published: Wednesday 13 April 1927
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 380 | Page: 46 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

The UNDYING VEIL

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 16 April 1927
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2418 | Page: 28 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative