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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesain't answered Anthony Hope asked Aunt Alciny Aunt Cla'sy Barrabas beautiful called Charles Davenport child Chillington Ciminna cried croupier dear Don Elviro Don Pasquale Don Sulpizio door Dupin Eliza Essie eyes face father felt Ferney Foxton gaze girl glance Godefroy Granby hair hand Hatamoto head heard heart Jack kiss knew lady Laminski laughed letter light lips listened looked Lord Mahu Malplaquet marriage marry matter milkman mind Miss Liston morning mother murmured never night old gentleman once poor Prefect Princess replied Robin rose seemed Sepsi Siculian silent smile spoke Stanislas stood story strange street suddenly talk tell ther thet thing thou thought told took turned Uncle Isrul Uncle Than'l voice walked wife window woman women Woodville words Yabsley Yendo Yeta young Popular passagesPage 498 - My honor is interested, and, to mention a great secret, the reward is enormous. So I did not abandon the search until I had become fully satisfied that the thief is a more astute man than myself. I fancy that I have investigated every nook and corner of the premises in which it is possible that the paper can be concealed. Page 497 - Be a little more explicit," I said. "Well, I may venture so far as to say that the paper gives its holder a certain power in a certain quarter where such power is immensely valuable." The Prefect was fond of the cant of diplomacy. "Still I do not quite understand, Page 507 - I felt that this whole train of thought would necessarily pass through the mind of the Minister. It would imperatively lead him to despise all the ordinary nooks of concealment. He could not, I reflected, be so weak as not to see that the most intricate and remote recess of his hotel would be as open as his commonest closets to the eyes, to the probes, to the gimlets, and to the microscopes of the Prefect. I saw, in fine, that he would be driven, as a matter of course, to simplicity, if not deliberately... Page 511 - ... mob. D rushed to a casement, threw it open and looked out. In the meantime I stepped to the card-rack, took the letter, put it in my pocket, and replaced it by a facsimile (so far as regards externals), which I had carefully prepared at my lodgings — imitating the D cipher very readily by means of a seal formed of bread. Page 510 - No sooner had I glanced at this letter, than I concluded it to be that of which I was in search. To be sure, it was, to all appearance, radically different from the one of which the prefect had read us so minute a description. Here the seal was large and black, with the D— cipher; there it was small and red, with the ducal arms of the S— family. Page 500 - That of course; and when we had absolutely completed every particle of the furniture in this way, then we examined the house itself. We divided its entire surface into compartments, which we numbered, so that none might be missed; then we scrutinized each individual square inch throughout the premises, including the two houses immediately adjoining, with the microscope, as before. Page 502 - Why — puff, puff — you might — puff, puff — employ counsel in the matter, eh? — puff, puff, puff. Do you remember the story they tell of Abernethy? Page 506 - French are the originators of this particular deception; but if a term is of any importance — if words derive any value from applicability — then 'analysis' conveys 'algebra' about as much as, in Latin, 'ambitus' implies 'ambition,' 'religio' 'religion,' or 'homines honesti,' a set of honorable men." "You have a quarrel on hand, I see," said I, "with some of the algebraists of Paris; but proceed. Page 511 - For eighteen months the Minister has had her in his power. She has now him in hers ; since, being unaware that the letter is not in his possession, he will proceed with his exactions as if it was. Thus will he inevitably commit himself, at once, to his political destruction. Page 504 - and the Prefect and his cohort fail so frequently, first, by default of this identification, and, secondly, by ill-admeasurement, or rather through non-admeasurement, of the intellect with which they are engaged. They consider only their own ideas of ingenuity; and, in searching for anything hidden, advert only to the modes in which they would have hidden it. Bibliographic information
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