The priest observed with cold attention her darkly-beautiful eyes and hair, her quickly-changing co...
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"Something you don't like?" Lord Loring suggested. "No; something I don't quite understand. One doe...
fair friend; and, as a good Catholic, she would feel flattered by the notice of the spiritual direc...
with the cheese.' There was not only irritability, there was contempt--oh, yes! contempt in her ton...
After securing a bed at the hotel, and ordering a frugal curate's dinner (bit of fish, two chops, m...
Screw, pale and haggard-looking, evidently not yet recovered from the effect of my grip on his thro...
time, was the best and safest course for the future. How could I expect her to put all her trust in...
stone he must have to presume on my poor nerves!" "Give me one minute more," I went on. "I propose ...
her child. "I have no present need of money, darling," I answered; "keep the box in its present en...
into a coach, there was no harm in their hiring two inside places. I gave my watch, rings, and last...
arranged; and, when we parted, it was some mitigation of our grief to know that there was a time ap...
The Black Robe by Wilkie Collins BEFORE THE STORY. FIRST SCENE. BOULOGNE-SUR-MER.--THE DUEL. I....
surrounded by a stone wall. As we crossed the front garden on our way to the door, I noticed agains...
company; and he had been the innocent victim of an error or a fraud, committed by some other person...
discouraged by failures, but try again and again; and mind you are dirty and dark enough. You have ...