"I Say No"; Or, The Love-letter Answered: And Other Stories

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Harper & brothers, 1886 - Great Britain - 431 pages
 

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Page 125 - ... that he could not put off the telling. He did not yet know why it must be so, he only felt it, and the agonising sense of his impotence before the inevitable almost crushed him. To cut short his hesitation and suffering, he quickly opened the door and looked at Sonia from the doorway. She was sitting with her elbows on the table and her face in her hands, but seeing Raskolnikov she got up at once and came to meet him as though she were expecting him. "What would have become of me but for you...
Page 150 - Your number will be called, sir, in your turn,' and disappeared. For some minutes nothing disturbed the deep silence but the faint ticking of a clock. After a while a bell rang from an inner room, a door opened, and a gentleman appeared, whose interview with Doctor Lagarde had terminated. His opinion of the sitting was openly expressed in one emphatic word — ' Humbug !' No contribution dropped from his hand as he passed the money-box on his way out. The next number (being Number Fifteen) was called...
Page 149 - Toward the close of the year 1816 this strange advertisement became a general topic of conversation among educated people in London. For some weeks the " sittings" of the seer were largely attended, and (all things considered) were not badly remunerated. A faithful few believed in him, and told wonderful stories of what he had pronounced and prophesied in his state of trance. The majority of his visitors simply viewed him in the light of a public amusement, and wondered why such a gentleman-like...
Page 221 - If there had been any conversation between them, when they retired to rest, they might have mentioned their names. But your father was preoccupied; and my brother, after a long day's walk, was so tired that he fell asleep as soon as his head was on the pillow. He only woke when the morning dawned. What he saw when he looked toward the opposite bed might have struck with terror the boldest man that ever lived. His first impulse was naturally to alarm the house. When he got on his feet, he saw his...
Page 92 - she said, sharply. "You know as well as I do that you are talking nonsense. " " I don't,
Page 152 - Tails, go." He opened his hand and looked at the coin. " Heads ! Very good. Go on with your hocus-pocus, Sir — I'll wait." "You believe in chance," said the doctor, quietly observing him.
Page 152 - Mesmer was a man who might easily be deceived by others, but who was incapable of consciously practicing deception himself. Signing to his visitor to take a chair, he seated himself on the opposite side of the small table that stood between them, waited a moment with his face hidden in his hands, as if to collect himself, and then spoke. " Do you come to consult me on a case of illness," he inquired, "or do you ask me to look into the darkness which hides your future life ?" The stranger answered,...
Page 167 - Satisfy your curiosity, Mr. Linwood, by all means," Charlotte answered, in the same tone. " Open the door, and I will follow you. There is a bench still left, I think, inside, and a few minutes' rest will be welcome to me." Percy obeyed. In passing through the doorway he encountered the bare hanging branches of some creeping plant, long since dead and detached from its fastenings on the wood-work of the roof. He pushed aside the branches so that Charlotte could easily follow him in, without being...
Page 167 - Her eyes, still resting on his face, assumed an expression of suspicious inquiry, which Percy was entirely at a loss to understand. Suddenly, she started to her feet, as if a new idea had occurred to her. "Wait here," she said, flushing with excitement, "till I come back: I insist on it!
Page 198 - Help me to carry that sad burden into the next street." He pointed to a rude wooden litter on which lay a dead or wounded man, his face and breast covered with an old cloak. " There is the best friend the people ever had," the workman said. " He cured us, comforted us, respected us, loved us — and there he lies, shot dead while he was binding up the wounds of friends and enemies alike !" " Whoever he is, he has died nobly,

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