id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt nyp.33433074861901 Hume Fergus The lost parchment : a detective story / by Fergus Hume 1914 .txt text/plain 64017 5362 88 Always perfectly dressed, always amiable, an accomplished squireof-dames, well-read and yet a man-of-the-world, Carrington was the exact opposite of Hendle, and perhaps had made him his friend because of the vast "Good old man," said Rupert, giving Carrington's Remembering what Hendie had said about the vicar's craze for books he attempted to interest him in that direction, as Mr. Leigh appeared to be wholly indifferent to news of "I think they are quite safe," said Carrington, looking with disdain on the time-worn and soiled parchments rustling under the vicar's thin fingers. "How are you, Miss Mallien?" said Mrs. Beatson, "You are everything that is charming," said Carrington alertly, "but, having met your father, I think "If Mallien gets the property," said Mr. Leigh deliberately, "he will not allow you to marry Dorinda." nature," said Carrington dryly; "but would Miss Mallien obey him?" "Either that," said Carrington deliberately, "or Mrs. Beatson made away with Leigh and stole it." ./cache/nyp.33433074861901.pdf ./txt/nyp.33433074861901.txt