The Queen of Hearts: A NovelHarper & brothers, 1874 - 472 стор. |
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Сторінка 241 - I beg that Mr. Holliday will not mention to any one, least of all to his father, the events that have occurred and the words that have passed in this room. I entreat him to bury me in his memory as, but for him, I might have been buried in my grave. I
Сторінка 224 - except the half curtain at the bottom, on the side of the bed farthest from the window. Arthur saw the feet of the sleeping man raising the scanty clothes into a sharp little eminence, as if he was lying flat on his back. He took the candle, and advanced softly to draw the
Сторінка 229 - the table on which the candle was placed, sitting down with his back resolutely turned to the curtained bed. He read the first riddle, the second, the third, all in one corner of the card, then turned it round impatiently to look at another. Before he could begin reading the riddles printed here the sound of the
Сторінка 222 - should slip in and forestall him, to the sly-looking landlord 'with the dirty apron and the bald head. " If you have got a bed to let," he said, " and if that gentleman who has just gone out won't pay your price for it, I will.
Сторінка 124 - eyes," she said, in low, mournful, awestruck tones, pointing toward the open door; " a droop in the left eyelid; flaxen hair, with a gold-yellow streak in it; white arms, with a down upon them; little lady's hand, with a reddish look under the finger
Сторінка 114 - in one hand and his gun in the other. "What is it?" asked the landlord, breathlessly. Isaac could only answer in a whisper. "A woman, with a knife in her hand," he gasped out. " In my room —a fair, yellow-haired woman; she jobbed at me with the knife twice over.
Сторінка 233 - but the long white hand. He stood looking at it, unable to stir, unable to call out—feeling nothing, knowing nothing—every faculty he possessed gathered up and lost in the one seeing faculty. How long that first panic held him he never could tell
Сторінка 221 - Arthur turned into the court without hesitation to see what The Two Robins could do for him. Four or five men were standing together round the door of the house, which was at the bottom of the court, facing the entrance from the street. The men were all listening to one other man, better dressed than the rest, who was telling
Сторінка 269 - of changing the fifty-pound note. I shall, therefore, still make it my business to follow him—attending at the Regent's Park to-morrow, and doing my best to hear what is said there. If another appointment is made for the day after, I shall, of course, go to it. In the mean
Сторінка 244 - like a conclusion of this fragmentary narrative. And even when that later period is reached, the little that I have to say will not occupy your attention for more than a few minutes. One rainy autumn evening, while I was still