This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
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46579 | How do you manage that? |
46579 | ***** Does the reader think that I have spun out this chapter too much? |
46579 | *****"Have you ever been threatened by the friends of criminals whom you have hanged?" |
46579 | Does he think that I have unnecessarily harrowed his feelings? |
46579 | Is any good purpose served by keeping such people for three weeks in agony? |
46579 | When they met on that fatal morning the brothers kissed each other, and, looking round, they enquired simultaneously,"where''s Hill?" |
58980 | Are you all right? |
58980 | Feel better, Abby? |
58980 | Honeymoon? 58980 Paralysis ray?" |
58980 | Pray, Sir,she asked slowly, and so softly he scarcely heard her,"Art thou the Lord? |
58980 | What happened? |
58980 | What''s she mumbling about? |
58980 | Why not use thy paralysis ray now? |
58980 | You do n''t regret giving up all you had in your own time? |
58980 | Or one of His Angels?" |
58980 | Time machine?" |
58980 | What did he look like?" |
58980 | Why need we travel at all?" |
58980 | she repeated slowly,"Stop the show? |
37650 | And is any Thing more reasonable, than that they should enjoy that Right, especially when they only make use of it for commendable Purposes? |
37650 | This may put a Tradesman of good Business in great Distress: Must he lose it? |
37650 | Why should we delight in the Intrepidity, tho''it was real, of a Villain in his Impiety? |
37650 | Will you say that he firmly believes that there is no God, nor Life after this, and that Man is wholly mortal? |
61335 | And why are you out at this hour, so far from the dorm? 61335 How long does it take to love somebody?" |
61335 | What are you doing? |
61335 | Yes? |
61335 | _ Were n''t my parents enough?_One of them pointed another device at me, and I blacked out. |
61335 | And where else would such an aberration be as likely to come out as in the Arena? |
61335 | Did they_ want_ to die? |
61335 | Do n''t you ever say anything for yourself, Bob?" |
61335 | How could they take it so calmly----were they dead already? |
61335 | How long does it take to destroy a few spoiled lives? |
61335 | I could n''t sleep--"His eyes narrowed at that; had I made a mistake? |
61335 | I''m new to the city and I did n''t realize....""You''re transient? |
61335 | Or does your father say you''re too young to_ love_ somebody?" |
61335 | Or was I really insane? |
61335 | They were so young.... How long does it take a boy to become neurotic, psychotic, dangerous? |
61335 | Usually I was just sitting on a log and staring into the sky, and what harm was there in that? |
61335 | Where are you staying?" |
61335 | Where_ was_ the sanity in this Arena? |
61335 | Which of us had screamed? |
61332 | And now it was a child? |
61332 | Are n''t you feeling well? |
61332 | Are n''t you having any? |
61332 | Are you quite sure? |
61332 | Did you have enough coffee? |
61332 | Did you see the child? |
61332 | Do you really grow your own strawberries? |
61332 | For instance, did you know that unadjustables-- they called them criminals then-- were actually electrocuted? 61332 Noon?" |
61332 | The child? |
61332 | Was it the same voice you heard the first two nights? |
61332 | Why do n''t you take your walk now? 61332 You do n''t think I''m imagining?" |
61332 | You know how children talk to themselves? |
61332 | You were n''t born in the city? |
61332 | Coat?" |
61332 | Coat?" |
61332 | Do n''t you think we ought to report it?" |
61332 | His heart beating, he said,"Those are peas, are n''t they?" |
61332 | It was lopsided and made of inferior clay"Do you make your own pottery, too?" |
61332 | Pull up that chair, why do n''t you?" |
61332 | Will you want anything else?" |
61332 | Would you like some?" |
61204 | Are we specialists? 61204 But you could n''t execute them?" |
61204 | Is that all you can say about it? |
61204 | Well, well, you''re really fired up are n''t you? 61204 What else, teener?" |
61204 | What''s that, baby? |
61204 | What''s yours, teener? |
61204 | What, son? |
61204 | Where you think you''re going, my pretty lad? |
61204 | You enjoyed the hunt, Seton? 61204 How come he''d been stuck with parental images like that? 61204 I ca n''t turn you out and have it erupt later-- and maybe shed clean innocent blood, can I? |
61204 | If this muscle- bound creep was such a big boy, what was he doing holding down a desk? |
61204 | Is n''t it better all around, Seton, for us to do it, as part of growing up? |
61204 | Know where that is, punk?" |
61204 | Right, punk?" |
61204 | That they have to be executed?" |
61204 | That''s the Youth Board''s headache, ai n''t it? |
61204 | Think you''re the only kid breaking out tonight?" |
61204 | What do we know about adolescent trauma and like that? |
61204 | What was the matter, Seton?" |
61204 | You got your kicks?" |
61204 | You have a pass, killer?" |
61204 | You know that, Seton?" |
61204 | You realize there''s nothing can be done for them? |
34243 | A perquisite of the office? |
34243 | Charming, is it not? |
34243 | Did you come here simply to admire the view, my lord? |
34243 | Do I understand that you still claim your bonus? |
34243 | I can imagine no more delightful one,he replied;"and where do you ply your daily task, fair mistress? |
34243 | I can well believe that your victims are numerous,he replied;"may I be permitted to rank myself among the latest of them?" |
34243 | Is that you, old Thibault? 34243 Something has vexed you, fair maiden?" |
34243 | What do you think they''ll do to me, Jeanne? |
34243 | Who ever heard of an executioner having a nervous headache? 34243 And now, to return to business for one moment,--would you prefer to give the word yourself? 34243 And yet, methinks, those delicate hands show little trace of labour? |
34243 | And you, Jeanne?" |
34243 | Are you pretty comfortable?" |
34243 | Been very busy, and winning forensic fame and gold?" |
34243 | Could anything have occurred to offend him? |
34243 | Have you entirely lost your head?" |
34243 | How could she help having a headache? |
34243 | Like that, do n''t you see? |
34243 | Not entirely out of sight and access, I trust?" |
34243 | Now, take yourself, for instance, who come here to instruct me: what does_ your_ profession amount to, when all''s said and done? |
34243 | Or will you leave yourself entirely in my hands?" |
34243 | Suppose the criminals said they were out of sorts, and did n''t feel up to being executed?" |
34243 | Why on earth are you so captious about trifles? |
32087 | And ye claim no special circumstances? |
32087 | Are you or are you not going to perform your duty? |
32087 | Do ye remember your instructions? |
32087 | Have ye not been properly instructed? |
32087 | How would you understand them? |
32087 | I suppose so, but is it necessary to waste all this time? 32087 Prithee, Sir Jacques, have ye any message for their Judicial Highnesses?" |
32087 | What do you do, Squire? |
32087 | What have I done? |
32087 | What''s all the excitement about? |
32087 | What''s the rest of it, fool? |
32087 | What''s this nonsense, Sir Jacques? |
32087 | Who is it? |
32087 | Who''s on the docket, anyway? |
32087 | Why do n''t you ask them? |
32087 | Ye admit to the killing, then? |
32087 | But it could n''t be her-- Or could it? |
32087 | But what had she meant? |
32087 | Can that be true?" |
32087 | Could it be that after all...? |
32087 | The Chief Justice coughed the nervousness from his throat, and asked:"Is this the Lady Ann of Coberly?" |
32087 | The squire shuffled up behind him, and begged,"Please, your Lordship, shall we not don these garments now?" |
32087 | Was this woman going to win a reversal, in spite of all her insolence? |
32087 | What did it matter? |
32087 | What did she expect from him? |
32087 | What was she waiting for? |
32087 | When they had left the room, the still frightened squire stuttered:"S- shall we d- dress, Sire?" |
51257 | Been hittin''the bottle again, huh? |
51257 | Do I get that paint or do n''t I? 51257 Does it hurt, Tony? |
51257 | Have you anything to say? |
51257 | How many weeks since you checked the cooler, boy? 51257 Huh? |
51257 | No appeal? |
51257 | There-- there are n''t any? |
51257 | We''re humane nowadays, had n''t you heard? 51257 Well, Radek?" |
51257 | Well, guy? |
51257 | What do they do with them, Tony? |
51257 | What''s going on down there? 51257 What''s the difference what man a woman has? |
51257 | What? |
51257 | What? |
51257 | Where''s Clacker? |
51257 | Where''s all that well known and demonstrated efficiency I''ve had to rake out of my ears? |
51257 | Yes, sir? |
51257 | Yes, sir? |
51257 | You''re Mr. Radek, are n''t you? 51257 _ Mr._ Radek, there was something?" |
51257 | And, Radek--""Yes, sir?" |
51257 | And, Radek--""Yes, sir?" |
51257 | As he passed under the huge Master Screen, her voice came again, but quite thin:"You''ll let me know, Tony? |
51257 | But the wife, see? |
51257 | Ca n''t you control your own office? |
51257 | Do n''t move? |
51257 | Do n''t you know I''ll always be here? |
51257 | Do n''t you know I''m here? |
51257 | Do n''t you know that, Baby?'' |
51257 | Got that?" |
51257 | Haley?" |
51257 | Haley?" |
51257 | He said,"Are you Mrs. John Haley?" |
51257 | He swallowed quickly, said nervously:"Yes, sir?" |
51257 | I mean, if a man is found guilty, do they--?" |
51257 | I mean....""Physically? |
51257 | In the Execution Office?" |
51257 | Is the visi- lok in Executions controlled by a solenoid? |
51257 | It ai n''t, is it?" |
51257 | My God, man, where''s your feelings? |
51257 | Or electrocute him? |
51257 | Or gas him the way they used to back in the old days? |
51257 | Or maybe you''d like to be back in Training?" |
51257 | Radek...?" |
51257 | So what? |
51257 | Was it never changed to relay?" |
51257 | What do you say to a woman like this when you see the terror-- and something else-- in eyes like hers? |
51257 | What do you say to a woman who sits across from you, waiting the long, long wait? |
51257 | What else can a traitor expect?" |
51257 | What happened to him?" |
51257 | What''s the difference?" |
51257 | Why has n''t she been given her bill of divorcement and sent home? |
51257 | Why not hang a man instead? |
51257 | Why?" |
51257 | You''ll let me know as soon as you get word?" |
51257 | _ Damn the dame, why did n''t she go home?_ Tony Radek''s upper lip lifted a little, showing small angry teeth. |
51257 | _ Innocent? |
51257 | _ It ai n''t, hey? |
12191 | Ah, Tiny- chen,she would cry, as she came undulating and cooing in to our Helene,"is it you, dearest? |
12191 | Ah, come in with you, will you? |
12191 | Ah, what is that? |
12191 | Ah, will he? |
12191 | Ah,he said,"why this night?" |
12191 | All dead? |
12191 | And I trust you love to scratch upon the twangling zither as cats sharpen their claws upon the bark of trees? 12191 And after that may I come to you, Hugo?" |
12191 | And am I either? |
12191 | And did he say that you cut well? |
12191 | And have you got it with you? 12191 And how knew you that I was of the ancient guild of the bachelors?" |
12191 | And how,asked I,"may you know all that?" |
12191 | And how,cried the Prince, in his turn,"knew you that I had been wedded once?" |
12191 | And if you had been both? |
12191 | And she revealed it? |
12191 | And this young man? |
12191 | And what do you here, son of the Red Axe, in the place of the Sacred Fehme of the White Wolf? |
12191 | And what is there then for me? |
12191 | And what of the Lady Ysolinde? |
12191 | And what then is the meaning of the black flag? |
12191 | And what, High- Councillor Dessauer, is my blind peril? |
12191 | And what, Lord High Chancellor of Plassenburg, think you of this masquerading? 12191 And what, my lord, has befallen?" |
12191 | And what,asked her father,"have you seen in the crystal, child of my heart?" |
12191 | And where are our rooms to be? |
12191 | And where have you been? |
12191 | And where is the Bishop this afternoon? |
12191 | And who is his successor? |
12191 | And why not? |
12191 | And why? |
12191 | And you, Master Hugo, did you go thither to distinguish yourself by breaking up their child''s folly, or, like the others, to taste the stone ale? |
12191 | And you? |
12191 | And, pray, what do I that is worse? |
12191 | Are they all dead? |
12191 | Are you never weary in this dull tower? |
12191 | Are you not both my friends, and can Otho von Reuss be forgetful of old times? 12191 Aye,"said I,"but how can I tell you the rest? |
12191 | Aye,said the Prince, urging his horse to speed,"but will we ever get there?" |
12191 | Because I bid you teach the parsons their own religion, am I to be made Chancellor of the Mark? 12191 But did you ever hear him rail upon any of these young men that lean on rails and roll their eyes under ladies''windows?" |
12191 | But how will your father do without your company, Lady Ysolinde? |
12191 | But then, did not Dietrich, the anointed Prince, harry you? 12191 But what have we here?" |
12191 | But who would command us and be a gracious and beloved master to us? |
12191 | But with the broadaxe he slashes about him like an angel from heaven-- not so, Boris? |
12191 | But, father,said I,"suppose he asks of me that which might condemn one who has trusted me, what am I to say?" |
12191 | But, little maid, my own Helene,he cried, in a loud, gasping, alarmed tone,"what is this, best beloved? |
12191 | But,I answered,"who am I, that so great a lady should love me? |
12191 | But,said I,"how do I know that he will accept me? |
12191 | By what right do you seek to touch me, sir? |
12191 | Can it be a flag of pestilence? |
12191 | Can you ride? |
12191 | Child of the White Wolf,he said, in a shaking voice,"would you dare all and become one of the companions of the mysteries?" |
12191 | Dear Little Sister, why are you so mindful about Katrin Texel? |
12191 | Did I? |
12191 | Did he wound you, Duke Casimir? |
12191 | Did she go to them of her own free will, or did my father send for her? |
12191 | Did she not go among you from house to house, carrying, not the poison- cup, but the healing draught? 12191 Did she tell you so, Little Sister?" |
12191 | Did some one call me father? 12191 Did you say''Yes, your Highness''?" |
12191 | Did you spoil your dagger on him? |
12191 | Do you know that you and she together came very near losing me my favor with the Duke, and it might be my life also, both at one time to- night? |
12191 | Do you not remember when I had cut the calf''s head off with the axe? 12191 Do you see them, son Hugo?" |
12191 | Done me the honor to be friendly--"To play with your curls, lad? |
12191 | Fair maid,said I,"have you heard the refrain of the song that I love so well? |
12191 | Frederika,he cried, as he entered,"are the lads here yet?" |
12191 | Goes it not something like this? |
12191 | Great God, man, have you nothing to say to me ere you die? |
12191 | Has Hugo Gottfried returned? |
12191 | Hath he overeaten at mid- day refection, and so is not able to sleep, that he can not let honest men enjoy greater peace than himself? |
12191 | Hath she been put to the Question? |
12191 | Have I ever asked fee or reward for aught I have tried to do? |
12191 | Have I not the Duke''s own pass? 12191 Have you at all thought of the land or the lord to whom you would transfer your allegiance?" |
12191 | He looks a stout and be- e- e- fy o- o- old fel- low, this A- a- a- bot of St. Omer, do n''t you think? 12191 Helene is your betrothed wife, is she not?" |
12191 | Here he is,said I;"and now what would you with him?" |
12191 | How about the ancestors, the noble men my predecessors? |
12191 | How can Hugo Gottfried have done this thing? |
12191 | How did you prevail with the maid? |
12191 | How goes it, Helene? |
12191 | How goes it? 12191 How knew you that of me, goodwife?" |
12191 | How long has he known you? |
12191 | How long would you be away? |
12191 | How old is she now? |
12191 | How so? |
12191 | Hugo Gottfried, once you were my friend,she began;"what have I done that you should be my friend no more? |
12191 | I think well,said he, a little doubtfully;"but would it not be better that two should go than that one should adventure alone into the wolf''s den?" |
12191 | I wonder if we shall ever lay any salt on his tail? |
12191 | If there is to be no fighting of seconds, what do you say to old Dessauer? 12191 In Thorn?" |
12191 | In the matter of the Bishop''s interdict, or in other matters, do you mean that you can trust my counsel, Duke Casimir? |
12191 | In whose path, I bid you tell me, and what woman? |
12191 | Is it not so, Jorian? |
12191 | Is it that the plague is in the city? |
12191 | Is she pretty? |
12191 | Is the Prince safe? |
12191 | Is the noble Burgomeister lodging at the White Swan? |
12191 | It was a good horoscope and of a fortunate ending? |
12191 | Jorian, did you hear that? 12191 Jorian,"cried I,"do you hear? |
12191 | Jorian,said I, sharply,"where have you been?" |
12191 | Loves me? |
12191 | Lubber Jan,said Ysolinde,"what do you up there?" |
12191 | Maul, my troth, what sayest thou? 12191 More beautiful than I?" |
12191 | My lord, what do you here? 12191 Not gone alone?" |
12191 | Not wish to be Hereditary Executioner? 12191 Not with Von Reuss?" |
12191 | Now will you fight, or must I strike you with my open hand? |
12191 | Or, I presume, without my permission? |
12191 | Our father dead? |
12191 | Plassenburg, said you, my lady? |
12191 | Poor Dessauer, I wonder what he has gotten? 12191 Prisoner,"said Duke Otho,"have you any to speak for you? |
12191 | Saw you the Lady Helene? |
12191 | See,I said,"do you desire gold, Sir Lubber Fiend?" |
12191 | So, Great Brother,Helene would say,"you think she is pretty, do you? |
12191 | The Prince of Plassenburg has a Princess,I said,"who is often upon her travels?" |
12191 | The Princess''s flittermice? |
12191 | Then the matter of a second,continued the Prince;"he is to fight, of course?" |
12191 | Then, if you met him, did he not make you bow and bend and walk backward? |
12191 | To kiss you, perhaps, at the waygoing? |
12191 | We are free to go? |
12191 | Well, hearty fellows, what reward would you have for your great bravery? |
12191 | Well, to be friendly, and--"To caress your cheek? |
12191 | Well, what may be your will, madam? |
12191 | Well,cried the Prince,"what reward do you desire?" |
12191 | Well,he said, quaintly, like one that has a jest with himself which he will not tell,"have you had enough of marching hand- in- glove with treason? |
12191 | Well,said I, brusquely, for I had no love for the Sir Rusty Respectable,"out with it-- who sends you?" |
12191 | Well,said I, pausing in the caressing of my chin,"what do I worse every day than make love to Katrin Texel?" |
12191 | Well,she answered, somewhat breathlessly,"what if she did? |
12191 | Well? |
12191 | Well? |
12191 | Well? |
12191 | Were you, by any chance, speaking to me? |
12191 | What are courtships on the street to you, Sir Hugo,she returned,"with your''Twinkle- Twankle''singing- women over the way, and-- Lord, how went it? |
12191 | What are they doing to the sweet saint up yonder? |
12191 | What did I tell you about being Field- Marshal? |
12191 | What did you say? |
12191 | What do you know about this black work? |
12191 | What for me? |
12191 | What had Saint Peter to do with it? |
12191 | What has kept you? 12191 What hath gotten into our old man?" |
12191 | What is my fault, dear lass? |
12191 | What is that? |
12191 | What is the Duke Casimir to me that am a Princess? 12191 What is the reason of that turmoil?" |
12191 | What is your will, noble sirs? |
12191 | What is''t, little one? 12191 What know I about you or your master''s horses?" |
12191 | What may that be, High Councillor? |
12191 | What now? |
12191 | What other? |
12191 | What said the Prince to yon, young sir, if I may ask without offence? |
12191 | What think ye, Dessauer? |
12191 | What think you of Plassenburg and the service of Prince Karl? |
12191 | What twice- condemned drunken roysterer may you be, that hath mistaken the prison of Duke Otho for a trull- house? 12191 What was I telling?" |
12191 | What was the quarrel? |
12191 | What would you with the little maid? |
12191 | What, then, do you propose? 12191 What-- of leaden soldiers?" |
12191 | Where are you bound? |
12191 | Where should he be,cried Peter of the Pigs,"but at the trial of the witch- woman in the Hall of Justice? |
12191 | Wherefore do you come here so untimeously, profaning the holy quiet of our minster- close? |
12191 | Which? |
12191 | Who are you, and what do you want? |
12191 | Who but the Hereditary Justicer of the Wolfmark should slay a traitor? |
12191 | Who could be executioner in such a case? 12191 Who dared tell you?" |
12191 | Who is Duke Otho? |
12191 | Who may you be that asks so boldly? |
12191 | Who may you be that has a chain to match mine? |
12191 | Who sends for me? |
12191 | Who should be with me-- except all these? |
12191 | Who slew him? |
12191 | Who? |
12191 | Why do you stand with your match alight? |
12191 | Why should I hide, whoever comes? |
12191 | Why so? |
12191 | Why so? |
12191 | Why, Little Playmate, what ails thee at the maid? 12191 Why, what hath happened to you?" |
12191 | Why,said I, struck to the heart by his words,"what is the matter with the old one?" |
12191 | Will they carry out the terrible sentence? |
12191 | Will you fight, outlander? |
12191 | Will you grant me the first boon I have asked of you since you became Prince and Master to Hugo Gottfried? |
12191 | Will your ladyship deign to choose her chamber? 12191 Would she let poor Jan Lubberchen kiss her hand, think you?" |
12191 | You are alone? 12191 You are men of Plassenburg?" |
12191 | You are men of the country of Plassenburg? |
12191 | You are sure that you do not love that woman, then? |
12191 | You are sure the Duke is not behind you? |
12191 | You are the servant of the strange Doctor? |
12191 | You do me the honor to follow me? |
12191 | You do not love her, you are sure? |
12191 | You do not say''For your sake, Ysolinde''? |
12191 | You have no one with you here, Gottfried Gottfried? |
12191 | You have seen her? |
12191 | You love her, then? |
12191 | You mean Gottfried Gottfried, the Duke''s Justicer? |
12191 | You think her not merely pretty, then, but beautiful? |
12191 | You were present at this child''s play yester- eve in the hostel of the White Swan? |
12191 | Your life is mine, you say,cried she;"aye, and that means what? |
12191 | Your name and business? |
12191 | Your prince, I hear, is a true man, brave, and well- versed in war? |
12191 | ''He hath a Princess, and she is oft upon her travels?'' |
12191 | Ah, bad one-- cruelest-- as cruel as she is pretty"( appealing to me),"is she not? |
12191 | Ah, would you?" |
12191 | An experiment!--Why should I, Ysolinde of Plassenburg, experiment with you, the son of the Red Axe of the Wolfsberg?" |
12191 | And the Prince answered him as quickly, tapping his brow significantly with his forefinger,"Are not all wives a little touched? |
12191 | And the little maid, do you remember her, Hugo? |
12191 | And then, the little Helene-- what would she make of it? |
12191 | And what, by common consent, has been known in the city concerning this maid? |
12191 | And when as a lad of older years I set out to woo, whither shall I betake me? |
12191 | And worse, let others plunder you? |
12191 | Anything with money at the end of them? |
12191 | Are not you the only son of Gottfried Gottfried, right hand of Duke Casimir, highest in favor with his Grace? |
12191 | Are you wounded?" |
12191 | But I forgot-- what use is it to tell you, that are born of the Mark, and have learned sword- cunning in their schools?" |
12191 | But I saw the Prince--""Which Prince? |
12191 | But I trust that you, dear Katrin, have a greater taste for angelic song?" |
12191 | But perhaps you are his friend?" |
12191 | But this Duke Otho, wherefore has he not been crowned?" |
12191 | But what did or said Von Reuss?" |
12191 | But what is the matter of your duel, and with whom?" |
12191 | But when was a Prince ever wise?" |
12191 | But where was I in my tale? |
12191 | But who shall be able to keep out witchcraft? |
12191 | But who shall curb or halter the tongue of a fool? |
12191 | But, after all, you will not send me forth in anger?" |
12191 | But, then, what would you? |
12191 | CHAPTER IV THE PRINCESS HELENE"What devil''s work is this?" |
12191 | CHAPTER VIII AT THE BAR OF THE WHITE WOLF"Who waits at the bar with you, brother?" |
12191 | Conning madrigals for lovers''lutes, mayhap? |
12191 | Could it be-- Michael Texel? |
12191 | Day and night, whose fingers reverently wrapped up the poor dead bodies of your beloved? |
12191 | Did my father ever see you cut down tall trees?" |
12191 | Did the White Wolf save him? |
12191 | Dignified, is it not? |
12191 | Do not I, Ysolinde of Plassenburg, know the sound of words that have the heart behind them? |
12191 | Do you hear them laughing? |
12191 | Do you remember when you took me up and laid me on your bed, and our father came and looked? |
12191 | Does he dwell near by? |
12191 | Does the Princess know of this?" |
12191 | For do you not see that it alarms the lady and affrights her beast?" |
12191 | For had I not the fairest and the best of them all at home close by me? |
12191 | For how-- how could I tell her? |
12191 | For what door is open to a Gottfried, to him who carries the sign of the Red Axe?" |
12191 | Good, was it not? |
12191 | Has it ever cut anything? |
12191 | Hath God Himself no Justicer, that He should punish me because I have fulfilled my charge? |
12191 | Have I ever advised you wrong? |
12191 | Have her teeth ravened for those that condemned him? |
12191 | Have you ever seen a high tree cut down?" |
12191 | Have you observed those of the Princess?" |
12191 | Having had no mercy on the innocent, how shall you ask God to have mercy on you?" |
12191 | He is a friend of his, a man learned in ecclesiastical affairs, who comes to hold disputations with the Bishop--""Disputations-- what be those? |
12191 | How do you keep it so, and can I help you?" |
12191 | How much of either, think you, have I ever known? |
12191 | How she would teach me-- me, the Red Axe of Thorn-- how to dance that first night, and how totteringly she carried the Red Axe? |
12191 | Hugo, why did you leave me so long? |
12191 | I ask you, are you ready to open?" |
12191 | I cried out again, beginning to weep myself for pity at my thought,"where are you? |
12191 | I cried,"where are you?" |
12191 | I exclaimed,"wherefore do you torment me-- break my heart?" |
12191 | I have been on my knees-- can I believe it? |
12191 | I know it; but what of that, when I love him not? |
12191 | I said to myself, as a thought struck me,"could it possibly be Michael Texel? |
12191 | I said;"have they no other rooms to let anywhere in this hostelry?" |
12191 | I will ask you this, have I been a good soldier and servant to you or not?" |
12191 | In that very tower? |
12191 | Is she not known among them as Saint Helena?" |
12191 | Is she ten, or is she twenty, or is she mid- way betwixt the two?" |
12191 | Is there a man of us that has not been plundered?--a maid that does not go in fear of her honor while Casimir reigns? |
12191 | Must a man be forever at the beck and call of every sleepless sot? |
12191 | Or are yon passing fortunate in your part of the country? |
12191 | Or do you desire to make any answer to the things which have been urged against you?" |
12191 | Or, as it might be:"Are you coming-- are you coming o- o- out to- night? |
12191 | Presently he questioned her directly:"And who may this fair young damsel be, who has done me the honor to journey to my country?" |
12191 | Shall I tell you now why I am not afraid?" |
12191 | Shall this thing be? |
12191 | Shall we maidens petition Duke Casimir to banish the other lads of the town and leave only Hugo Gottfried for all of us?" |
12191 | Shall you and I make a sortie against them, while Boris with that pistol of his keeps the passage from the wicks of the middle door?" |
12191 | She resumed in a softer tone:"What sentence, then, would you desire, thus confessing your guilt?" |
12191 | Should I tell our Karl of this encounter? |
12191 | Sir Gallant, what need you with more? |
12191 | That horrid one there with his head under his arm? |
12191 | The cunning of a weak man? |
12191 | The glance said as clearly as monk''s script:"What shall we answer to this troublesome, inquisitive fellow?" |
12191 | Then, like the breaking up of the Baltic ice in spring, the thought ran through me-- my father and the maid of the Red Tower, what of them? |
12191 | Then, more low, he added,"Not the--?" |
12191 | There is none with you here?" |
12191 | Think you I have never listened to true men? |
12191 | Think you that is pleasant? |
12191 | This thought of yours is but a vision, a delusion-- how can we speak of the thing that is not?" |
12191 | Was he not of the White Wolf? |
12191 | Was it not to kill the Duke Casimir that this draught was compounded?" |
12191 | Was not her hand soft on the brow of the dying, comfortable about the neck of the bereaved? |
12191 | Was she asleep? |
12191 | Was she-- was she dead? |
12191 | Were it not, if possible, better to conceal the cause yet a while that our compact may go on? |
12191 | What am I to you, Princess, more than another?" |
12191 | What do you here?" |
12191 | What does a grizzle- pate with love?" |
12191 | What need to lie to a dying man? |
12191 | What say you to her?" |
12191 | What think you of the counsel, Duke Casimir?" |
12191 | What would come to the State of Plassenburg if it wanted you?" |
12191 | When did you ever find me unkind, unthankful, unfaithful? |
12191 | When went I ever away and left you alone?" |
12191 | Where got you that wisdom?" |
12191 | Where, shall this comedy end?" |
12191 | Wherefore will you not come oftener to our grim abode?" |
12191 | Who is the Little Playmate?" |
12191 | Who knows that look, if not I? |
12191 | Who quieted your babes in her arms, fed thorn, nursed them, healed them, buried them-- wore herself to a shadow for your sakes?" |
12191 | Why should he take so much upon him?" |
12191 | Why were you not here half an hour ago? |
12191 | Why, indeed, should I? |
12191 | Why, you are sewing at a shroud? |
12191 | Will the Prince never set about wiping away the disgrace?" |
12191 | Will you answer for that with your sword, or must I strike you on the face each time I meet you to quicken your sense of honor?" |
12191 | Will you be pleased to abide with us here in the Wolfsberg? |
12191 | Will you help me to release her? |
12191 | Would we not, chickens?" |
12191 | Would you have as many loves as the Grand Turk, and invent new love- makings for each of them? |
12191 | Would you know what happened? |
12191 | You desire to kill me? |
12191 | You love such music,_ dear_ Katrin, do you not?" |
12191 | You will remember and not be bashful when you have something to ask?" |
12191 | _"Hugo Gottfried, have I not saved my soul? |
12191 | art also a theologe, Sir Woodman?" |
12191 | cried the Lady Ysolinde;"what do you here?" |
12191 | cried the Prince, when he saw him;"have you found aught to link the miller of Chemnitz with the Princes of Plassenburg?" |
12191 | he asked, as soon as he had it in hand--"you used no constraint or force, I hope?" |
12191 | he exclaimed--"with the frying- pan? |
12191 | he said;"art at thy prayers, lad?" |
12191 | said I;"what have you been at to find out that?" |
11323 | A writ? 11323 And can you imagine, that the most upright conduct is always superior to the danger of ambiguity?" |
11323 | And do they take off them there things of nights? |
11323 | And do you refuse, sir, to attend to the particulars of the charge I allege? |
11323 | And how dared you read it? 11323 And if he were, what then? |
11323 | And pray, sir, what is your sorrow to me? |
11323 | And pray, sir, who is this Mr. Falkland? 11323 And so the little dear thought itself cunning enough to outwit me, did it? |
11323 | And this is your decision, is it? 11323 And what benefit will result from this conviction? |
11323 | And what signifies being tried, when they do worse than hang a man, and all beforehand? 11323 And you still persist in your hard thoughts of me?" |
11323 | Are you contented to go now? |
11323 | Barnes!--What do you mean? 11323 But how will you help yourself? |
11323 | Can you believe then that ignorance is the only, or the safest, preservative of integrity? |
11323 | Can you stand? |
11323 | Clitus,said I,"was a man of very coarse and provoking manners, was he not?" |
11323 | Did you immediately examine to see that every thing was safe? |
11323 | Did you say nothing to him-- take no notice of the confusion your sudden appearance produced? |
11323 | Died? 11323 Died?" |
11323 | Do not you believe me? 11323 Do you know what it is you have done? |
11323 | Do you know, cousin, I wish I could wake, and find that the last month-- only about a month-- was a dream? |
11323 | Do you think so? 11323 Forgot? |
11323 | Here? 11323 Here? |
11323 | Ho!--Well, sir: and what have you further to offer? |
11323 | How came it? 11323 How came this conversation?" |
11323 | How do you do, my dear? |
11323 | How is it,said Mr. Collins, gravely,"that you have been reduced to this forlorn condition? |
11323 | How long was it before you missed your property? |
11323 | How would a man of true discernment in such a case reply to his brutal assailant? 11323 I say, sir? |
11323 | If she be dead, what is that to me? 11323 In other words, you were his servant?" |
11323 | In that case,retorted the senior magistrate abruptly,"what can you have to disclose? |
11323 | Is this the end of genius, virtue, and excellence? 11323 Is this,"said I,"the fruit of conscious guilt, or of the disgust that a man of honour conceives at guilt undeservedly imputed?" |
11323 | Murderer?--Did I employ knives or pistols? 11323 Nay, I am sure, sir-- you are not in earnest?" |
11323 | Now, have not I done it nicely? 11323 Of what, sir!--Do you threaten me? |
11323 | Oh, ho, you are a gentleman, are you? 11323 Orders? |
11323 | Pooh, what signifies what I am? 11323 Shall I trample upon a man thus dreadfully reduced? |
11323 | That is what you say? 11323 Well, Williams, and could you find no reasons there?" |
11323 | Well, and what then? 11323 Well, my good Thomas,"said I, in a querulous tone, and with a hesitating manner,"am I not a most miserable creature?" |
11323 | Well, sir, what is your reply to this challenge of your servant? |
11323 | Well, sir: I found a letter written by that Hawkins the other day; did not that letter fall into your hands? 11323 Were you so stupid and undistinguishing as not to know that the preservation of your life was the uniform object of my exertions? |
11323 | What circumstances have occurred from that time to the present? |
11323 | What do you mean by that? |
11323 | What is in the wind now? 11323 What is it that you require of me? |
11323 | What justice? 11323 What noise is that? |
11323 | What provocation could induce you to so cruel a treatment? |
11323 | What steps did you take upon this discovery? |
11323 | What the devil can have made you so forward, if you had not some sly purpose to answer, by which I am to be overreached? |
11323 | What, did you use him thus, without so much as being irritated by any resistance on his part? |
11323 | What,replied Mr. Forester,"are the grounds of your suspicion?" |
11323 | Where is my child? |
11323 | Where is the man that has suffered more from the injustice of society than I have done? 11323 Where would you take her? |
11323 | Who are you? |
11323 | Who gave you a right to be my confidant? 11323 Who? |
11323 | Why do you come in here? 11323 Why do you hold me? |
11323 | Why is it that I am compelled to this confidence? 11323 Why not, Thomas? |
11323 | Why should you subject me to an eternal penance? 11323 Why, sir, was not your grandpapa my grandpapa? |
11323 | Why, you would not tear her from her bed? 11323 Why,"upon such occasions I was accustomed to exclaim,"why am I overwhelmed with the load of existence? |
11323 | Will you come with me, and convince your eyes? 11323 Will you hear my justification? |
11323 | Yes, sir, I do.--But, if I did not, pray what witnesses have you of the murder? |
11323 | You began in confidence; why did you not continue in confidence? 11323 You want to leave me, do you? |
11323 | --"How so?" |
11323 | After all, was it not vice in me to desire to involve another man in my sufferings? |
11323 | Am I not compelled to go on in folly, having once begun?" |
11323 | Am I then, thus miserable and ruined, a proper subject upon which for you to exercise your ingenuity, and improve your power of tormenting? |
11323 | Am I to answer for every thing that goes wrong in the world?--What do you come here for? |
11323 | And again, whether, if I had been conscious they would he found among my property, I should myself have indicated the place where I had concealed it? |
11323 | And by whom was she now torn from his indignation? |
11323 | And do you expect that mankind will ever forget, or forgive such a deed? |
11323 | And do you think that you shall wound it? |
11323 | And for what? |
11323 | And how much had he to struggle with in this respect, in the unapprehending obstinacy of some of his Macedonians?" |
11323 | And if by others, why not by me? |
11323 | And is this the way to bring me to your purpose? |
11323 | And so you can scold, can you? |
11323 | And so, do you see? |
11323 | And upon his death- bed too? |
11323 | And were you fool enough to believe that any obstinacy, however determined, could enable you to despise the keen rebuke of justice? |
11323 | And who are you? |
11323 | And yet what was my fault? |
11323 | And yet what was the meaning of all Mr. Falkland''s agonies and terrors? |
11323 | And, if it were, what security had I against the injustice of a man, vigilant, capricious, and criminal? |
11323 | And, in a concern that is so completely my own, shall my will go for nothing? |
11323 | And, when I had done all, what had I done? |
11323 | Answer me, Gines, were you the cause of this young man being left naked and wounded this bitter morning upon the forest?" |
11323 | Are learning, sensibility, and taste, no securities to exempt their possessor from this vulgar abuse? |
11323 | Are my passions to be wound and unwound by an insolent domestic? |
11323 | Are not you always hankering after the men? |
11323 | Are not you continually singing the praises of Falkland? |
11323 | Are not you in love with Falkland? |
11323 | Are you clear that this haste will not mar, instead of make an understanding?" |
11323 | Are you in distress? |
11323 | Are you in want? |
11323 | Are you inaccessible to remorse? |
11323 | Are you not struck to the heart with the unmerited goodness of your master? |
11323 | Are you of that mind now you have heard them? |
11323 | At length he could deceive himself no longer, and exclaimed with a distracted accent,"And is this all?" |
11323 | At present he appears to be the persecutor, and I the persecuted: is not this difference the mere creature of the imagination? |
11323 | Beside, how narrow would be the use of this science when acquired? |
11323 | But could this circumstance have any reference to me? |
11323 | But do you think it will conduce in any respect to your benefit, to throw out such insolent and intolerable insinuations?" |
11323 | But if I had no fortune, is not that the case with a thousand other folks? |
11323 | But if you are resolute, do you see? |
11323 | But of what use are talents and sentiments in the corrupt wilderness of human society? |
11323 | But ought I not to turn again, when I am trampled upon? |
11323 | But pray, do not you think this great hero was a sort of a madman? |
11323 | But shall I forget what a vast expense was bestowed in erecting the monument of his fame? |
11323 | But surely you owe me justice?" |
11323 | But to what purpose appeal to probabilities and conjecture, in the face of incontestable facts? |
11323 | But was it for me to force this conduct upon him, if, now in his declining years, his own fortitude shrank from it? |
11323 | But what signifies prating? |
11323 | But why do I call the point at which I was now arrived at a resting- place? |
11323 | But you are for a trial of skill? |
11323 | But you do not infer from thence that these people are to do as they please, and never meet with their deserts?" |
11323 | But, if a fair fame were of the most inexpressible value, is this the method which common sense would prescribe to retrieve it? |
11323 | Can I not draw amusement from the stores of my own mind? |
11323 | Can not you read?" |
11323 | Can that circumstance dishonour me? |
11323 | Can you be contented to purchase them at the price of treachery-- of violating the laws of hospitality?" |
11323 | Can you bring her back to life, as you have driven her out of it? |
11323 | Can you have no anxiety for my justification, whatever may be the unfavourable impression you may have received against me?" |
11323 | Can you hear her name, and not sink into the earth? |
11323 | Can you recollect her virtues, her innocence, her spotless manners, her unresentful temper, and not run distracted with remorse? |
11323 | Can you retire into solitude, and not see her pale and patient ghost rising to reproach you? |
11323 | Can you think of condemning a man when you have heard only one side of his story?" |
11323 | Clare, why could not I have died in your stead? |
11323 | Could I discourage a frankness so perfectly in consonance with my wishes, and receive in an ungracious way a kindness that stole away my heart? |
11323 | Could I ever inflict upon you such injuries as you have made me suffer? |
11323 | Could I, by any refinement of reason, convert this dreadful series into sport? |
11323 | Could a real criminal have shown himself so unabashed, composed, and firm as I have now done? |
11323 | Could an amusement of this sort be dangerous? |
11323 | Could he be following her? |
11323 | Could no human ingenuity and exertion effect them? |
11323 | Could there be any peril in the short interval that was to elapse, before the vessel was to weigh anchor and quit the English shore? |
11323 | Could you mistake the bigoted and obstinate conduct of Forester, in offering a hundred guineas for your apprehension, for mine? |
11323 | Did I ever prove myself unworthy of your confidence? |
11323 | Did I give her poison? |
11323 | Did I then mention a syllable of the murder, the secret of which was in my possession? |
11323 | Did all these persecutions persuade me to put an end to my silence? |
11323 | Did his power reach through all space, and his eye penetrate every concealment? |
11323 | Did it really contain such an extent of arguments and application, that nobody but I was discerning enough to see? |
11323 | Did not I endeavour to prevent your being sent thither? |
11323 | Did not I maintain you in prison? |
11323 | Did not he over- run nations that would never have heard of him but for his devastations? |
11323 | Did not you read it?" |
11323 | Did the imbecility of his grey hairs afford no advantage to my terrible adversary in the contest? |
11323 | Did these authors think that, by the coarseness of their ribaldry, they could destroy his well- earned fame? |
11323 | Did this show me a man unworthy to be trusted? |
11323 | Did you believe that we would live in hourly fear of you, tremble at your threats, and compromise, whenever you should so please, with your insolence? |
11323 | Did you ever read, Williams, of a man more gallant, generous, and free? |
11323 | Did you ever see him?" |
11323 | Did you ever see the person before?" |
11323 | Did you never read his history?" |
11323 | Did you never say that, if once I brought on myself the weight of your displeasure, my fall should be irreparable? |
11323 | Did you not add, that my innocence should be of no service to me, and that you laughed at so feeble a defence? |
11323 | Did you think I were such a goose, to take all this trouble merely to gratify your whim? |
11323 | Didst thou believe me impotent, imbecile, and idiot- like, with no understanding to contrive thy ruin, and no energy to perpetrate it? |
11323 | Didst thou imagine that there was no danger in inflicting on me pains however great, miseries however dreadful? |
11323 | Do not you know, you have been voted out? |
11323 | Do you remember his tears, his remorse, his determined abstinence from food, which he could scarcely be persuaded to relinquish? |
11323 | Do you think I could bear to see that?" |
11323 | Do you think I will be an instrument to be played on at your pleasure, till you have extorted all the treasures of my soul? |
11323 | Do you think I will be contradicted and opposed for nothing? |
11323 | Do you think I will let any body else choose a husband for me? |
11323 | Do you think we will be your slaves? |
11323 | Do you think you are out of the reach of my power, because a court of justice has acquitted you?" |
11323 | Do you think you shall watch my privacies with impunity?" |
11323 | Do you think, strumpet; that you shall get the better of me by sheer impudence? |
11323 | Do''ee think ee can creep out at the key- hole, lovey? |
11323 | Does he think I will feel all that I endure for nothing?" |
11323 | Does not your heart tell you that I am innocent?" |
11323 | Had I not sufficiently proved my constancy and fidelity? |
11323 | Had he no fears for his own secret and atrocious offences? |
11323 | Had they stronger motives than I? |
11323 | Have I been nursing a viper in my bosom? |
11323 | Have I ever done any thing to deserve your unkind suspicions? |
11323 | Have I not been employed from my infancy in gratifying an insatiable curiosity? |
11323 | Have not I, thinks I, arms and legs as well as other people? |
11323 | Have you not killed her in the first bloom of her youth? |
11323 | Having recovered himself, he enquired, why then, that being the case, I did not quit his service? |
11323 | Hawkins, I think, is your name? |
11323 | He advanced towards Mr. Tyrrel without a moment''s pause, and in a peremptory voice asked him what he did there? |
11323 | He appeared to muse for a moment upon what I had said, and then asked what reason I could have to complain of Mr. Falkland? |
11323 | He looked at the speaker with a fixed and penetrating glance, and then said,"Nay, Gines, do you know? |
11323 | He said little more to his brother, except asking, as if casually, what sort of an old woman this was? |
11323 | He that lately possessed it has injured me; does that alter its value as a medium of exchange? |
11323 | He went on:"You do so; do you? |
11323 | His sight was already dim; he pulled up his horse till I should overtake him; and then said,"Who are you? |
11323 | How atrociously absurd to suppose any motive capable of inducing such a man to play the part of a lurking assassin? |
11323 | How can it fail to do so? |
11323 | How can she be in Mr. Tyrrel''s debt? |
11323 | How can you ask such a question? |
11323 | How dare you give yourself such unaccountable liberties?" |
11323 | How dare you look down upon your equals?" |
11323 | How do you know? |
11323 | How few persons would he encounter so unjust and injurious as you, if his own conduct were directed by the principles of reason and benevolence? |
11323 | How many hundred thousands of lives did he sacrifice in his career? |
11323 | How must he suppose I came to that place? |
11323 | How shall I describe the feelings of this unfortunate man? |
11323 | How then can we be of a different family?" |
11323 | How unfeeling to oblige him to defend himself from such an imputation? |
11323 | How was a mind, active and indefatigable like mine, to endure this misery? |
11323 | How was it possible for me to be so eager, so obstinate, in a purpose so diabolical? |
11323 | I am no murderer; yet, if I were, what worse could I be fated to suffer? |
11323 | I am not guilty of what is imputed to me? |
11323 | I am unable to cope with you: what then? |
11323 | I am very happy as I am: why should I be married?" |
11323 | I ask him--"Did you never boast to me in private of your power to ruin me? |
11323 | I ask you further,--Did you not receive a letter from me the morning of the day on which I departed, requesting your consent to my departure? |
11323 | I asked Mr. Forester, whether it were probable, if I had stolen these things, that I should not have contrived, at least to remove them along with me? |
11323 | I began:--"Why can not I recall the last four days of my life? |
11323 | I exclaimed within myself,"What scene of death has Roscius now to act?" |
11323 | I exclaimed, in the bitterness of my heart,"Of what value is a fair fame? |
11323 | I might find an individual ready to undertake this office in my behalf; but where should I find the benevolent soul of Mrs. Marney? |
11323 | I tell you she does owe me,--owes me eleven hundred pounds.--The law justifies it.--What do you think laws were made for? |
11323 | I want nothing of you: how dare you refuse me the privilege of a reasonable being, to live unmolested in poverty and innocence? |
11323 | I was not deterred by your menaces--(what could you make me suffer more than I actually suffered?) |
11323 | I was not-- no, it was impossible-- the person who had formerly lived servant with Mr. Falkland, of----? |
11323 | I will speak with a voice more fearful than thunder!--Why should I be supposed to speak from any dishonourable motive? |
11323 | If I could have submitted to it in other respects, what purpose would it answer? |
11323 | If I encountered him, what chance had I of victory? |
11323 | If I had been guilty, should I not have embraced the opportunity? |
11323 | If I had, how could I tell that the second and third judgment would be more favourable than the first? |
11323 | If I were defeated, what was the penalty I had to suffer? |
11323 | If I were your enemy, should not I have reason? |
11323 | If fidelity and honour be banished from thieves, where shall they find refuge upon the face of the earth? |
11323 | If he must in every case be at my mercy, in which mode ought he to have sought his safety, in conciliation, or in inexorable cruelty? |
11323 | If no other person have the courage to set limits to the tyranny of courts of justice, shall not we? |
11323 | Imprudent though I had been, could I voluntarily subject myself to an eternal penance, and estrangement from human society? |
11323 | In fine, for what purpose could a poor beggar, who had never been in Ireland in his life, want to transport himself to that country? |
11323 | In searching me they had found upon me fifteen guineas, how should a poor beggar lad, such as I appeared, come honestly by fifteen guineas? |
11323 | In short, I am determined she shall marry this lad: you do not know any harm of him, do you? |
11323 | In the devil''s name, madam, do you think he would write poetry if he could do any thing better?" |
11323 | In the mean time, what must be my feelings? |
11323 | Is every body incapable of saying what kind of stuff a man is made of? |
11323 | Is he thus blind to the future, thus totally unsuspecting of what is to occur in the next moment of his existence? |
11323 | Is it for you to ask that question? |
11323 | Is it in man to leap from the high- raised precipice, or rush unconcerned into the midst of flames? |
11323 | Is it necessary to give any particular and precise reasons why I should wish to change the place of my residence? |
11323 | Is it not enough that I am pennyless? |
11323 | Is it not freighted with various knowledge? |
11323 | Is it not strange that such a one as I should retain lineaments of a human creature? |
11323 | Is it possible that she should know what has been planned for the few next hours?" |
11323 | Is it possible, if you had been honest, that you would not have acquainted me with your story? |
11323 | Is not my estate my own? |
11323 | Is not that impotence greater than I have yet imagined? |
11323 | Is not the man my tenant? |
11323 | Is that a country of liberty, where thousands languish in dungeons and fetters? |
11323 | Is that a reason you should hinder his preferment?" |
11323 | Is the luminary of the world thus for ever gone? |
11323 | Is there any charge so frivolous, upon which men are not consigned to those detested abodes? |
11323 | Is there any villainy that is not practised by justices and prosecutors? |
11323 | Is this the kindness you professed? |
11323 | Is this the way to obtain the favour of a man of consequence and respectability? |
11323 | Is truth then entitled to adoration for its own sake, and not for the sake of the happiness it is calculated to produce? |
11323 | It is true: my mind, the clearness of my spirit, the firmness of my temper, are beyond his reach; is not my life equally so, if I please? |
11323 | It seems too you know-- accursed remembrance!--that I was accused of this crime?" |
11323 | It was an instantaneous impulse, a short- lived and passing alienation of mind; but what must Mr. Falkland think of that alienation? |
11323 | It was extraordinary: what could be become of her? |
11323 | Let us suppose that Hawkins has behaved unjustifiably, and insulted you: is that an offence that never can be expiated? |
11323 | May I not employ my ingenuity to vex him with difficulties, and laugh at the endless labour to which he will be condemned?" |
11323 | May I not meet hereafter with men ingenuous like him, who shall do me justice, and sympathise with my calamity? |
11323 | Might not I as well desire you to leave the county, as you desire me? |
11323 | Might not Mr. Falkland reduce him to a condition as wretched and low as mine? |
11323 | Might not his integrity be browbeaten and defeated, as mine had been? |
11323 | Mr. Grimes, what do you mean?" |
11323 | Must he perpetually trample upon his betters? |
11323 | Must the father be ruined, and the son hanged, to glut your resentment?" |
11323 | My Christian name? |
11323 | My first sweetheart was Bet Butterfield, but what of that? |
11323 | Of what would you convince me? |
11323 | On the other hand, could I pretend to know what evils might result to him from his declaring himself my advocate? |
11323 | One of the company cried out,"Who goes there? |
11323 | One of the first questions that then occurred was, what shall I do with the knowledge I have been so eager to acquire? |
11323 | Ought I to submit to waste the best years of my life in my present wretched situation? |
11323 | Pretty master''s manners will be contaminated truly? |
11323 | Recollect all that has ever passed under your observation; is it compatible with a mind capable of what is now alleged against me? |
11323 | Shall I point my animosity against one, whom the system of nature has brought down to the grave? |
11323 | Shall I poison, with sounds the most intolerable to his ears, the last moments of a man like Falkland? |
11323 | Shall a rascal that farms his forty acres, pretend to beard the lord of the manor? |
11323 | Shall we, who earn our livelihood by generous daring, be indebted for a penny to the vile artifices of the informer? |
11323 | She recollected that she had always been upon her guard respecting me; but had she been sufficiently so? |
11323 | She started, and cried,"Are we discovered? |
11323 | Should I have dared to ask for what reason I was thus subjected to an eternal penance?" |
11323 | Should I have done that if my flight had been that of a thief? |
11323 | Should I wait, and risk the preservation of my liberty upon the issue? |
11323 | So I only asked him what he did that for, and whether he had not more conscience than to spoil people''s crops o''that fashion? |
11323 | So do you hear, sir? |
11323 | Surely he would not refuse me? |
11323 | That Mr. Falkland is a suborner and murderer?" |
11323 | The accused expostulated with their persecutor, and asked him how he could be so barbarous as to persist in frightening a woman? |
11323 | The justice of proclaiming your innocence? |
11323 | The other expressed no marks of resentment, but sullenly answered,"Damn you, why did not you take the edge? |
11323 | The secret struggle of his mind was,"Can this be hypocrisy? |
11323 | Then what would have been the result? |
11323 | There was something in the tone with which this slut uttered her farewell, that suggested the question to Emily,"What does she mean? |
11323 | This story had succeeded with persons already prepossessed in my favour by personal intercourse; but could it succeed with strangers? |
11323 | Though I am a plain, working man, your honour, do you see? |
11323 | To what purpose complain, when his complaints are sure to be received with incredulity? |
11323 | To what purpose serve the restless aspirations of my soul, but to make me, like a frighted bird, beat myself in vain against the enclosure of my cage? |
11323 | To whom shall the unfortunate felon appeal? |
11323 | True; and how many hundreds are there that live from hand to mouth all the days of their life? |
11323 | Upon what pretence did he refuse my deposition? |
11323 | Was I to receive the money which had just been put into my hands? |
11323 | Was I to wait the issue of this my missionary undertaking, or was I to withdraw myself immediately? |
11323 | Was acquittal useless? |
11323 | Was ever mortal so completely the reverse of every thing engrossing and selfish? |
11323 | Was existence more variously endeared to them? |
11323 | Was he like that mysterious being, to protect us from whose fierce revenge mountains and hills, we are told, might fall on us in vain? |
11323 | Was it not dangerous to the whole fraternity if, without the smallest precaution, she should bring the officers of justice in the midst of them? |
11323 | Was it not enough that I was publicly dishonoured? |
11323 | Was it not the inevitable consequence of your own actions?" |
11323 | Was it possible I could have forgotten for a moment the awe- creating manners of Falkland, and the inexorable fury I should awake in his soul? |
11323 | Was it possible that she alluded to that in her parting words? |
11323 | Was it possible that, by any unaccountable accident, they should have got an intimation of my disguise? |
11323 | Was it possible, after all, that Mr. Falkland should be the murderer? |
11323 | Was it wise in him to drive me into extremity and madness? |
11323 | Was not he the common disturber of mankind? |
11323 | Was the world, with all its climates, made in vain for thy helpless unoffending victim? |
11323 | Was there no hope that remained for me? |
11323 | Was there no period, past or in prospect, that could give relief to my sufferings? |
11323 | Was this the life upon which I had entered with such warm and sanguine expectation? |
11323 | Well then, added I, if it be such as would not be admitted at a criminal tribunal, am I sure it is such as I ought to admit? |
11323 | Well, and what did you say to the letter? |
11323 | Well, and what then? |
11323 | Were not those your very words? |
11323 | Were you any way aiding, abetting, or contributing to this murder?" |
11323 | Were you such a fool as to think, because men pay respect to wealth and rank, this would extend to such a deed? |
11323 | What are the material obstacles, that man never subdued? |
11323 | What benefit has ever resulted from my mistaken clemency? |
11323 | What can Mr. Falkland contrive for me worse than the ill opinion and enmity of all mankind?" |
11323 | What chance was there after the purgation I was now suffering, that I should come out acquitted at last? |
11323 | What concern have I with danger and alarm? |
11323 | What could I do? |
11323 | What could I say to such a man as this? |
11323 | What could exceed the horrors of this situation? |
11323 | What do I owe you? |
11323 | What do you mean by that? |
11323 | What do you mean?" |
11323 | What do you tell me of Mr. Falkland? |
11323 | What does this mean? |
11323 | What had I to do with life? |
11323 | What have I done to deserve this treatment? |
11323 | What have I done, that I should deserve to have you for an enemy?" |
11323 | What is it that casts me at such an immense distance below you, as to make every thing that relates to me wholly unworthy of consideration? |
11323 | What is it you know? |
11323 | What is it you mean to do?" |
11323 | What is it you mean?" |
11323 | What is it you propose? |
11323 | What is it you want? |
11323 | What is my offence?" |
11323 | What is the mysterious vengeance that you can yet execute against me? |
11323 | What is the reason, sir, that you seem unthankful and averse to my kindness? |
11323 | What is the undertaking so arduous, that by some has not been accomplished? |
11323 | What is your name-- ha, sirrah? |
11323 | What must he think of this? |
11323 | What must it have been with this complication of ignominy, base, humiliating, and public? |
11323 | What power can cause that man to die, whose whole soul commands him to continue to live?" |
11323 | What power is able to hold in chains a mind ardent and determined? |
11323 | What probability was there that the trial I had endured in the house of Mr. Falkland was not just as fair as any that might be expected to follow? |
11323 | What relief had I from these sensations? |
11323 | What right have you to make a prisoner of me? |
11323 | What should hinder me from taking that of which I was really in want, when, in taking it, I risked no vengeance, and perpetrated no violence? |
11323 | What should make thee inaccessible to my fury? |
11323 | What signifies calling it mine, if I am not to have the direction of it? |
11323 | What sort of a man do you show yourself, you that lay claim to the respect and applause of every one that knows you?" |
11323 | What then can I do? |
11323 | What then? |
11323 | What then? |
11323 | What then?" |
11323 | What though? |
11323 | What use, what advantage, what pleasurable sentiment, could arise from a tame surrender? |
11323 | What was I to do? |
11323 | What was I to infer? |
11323 | What was it she intended? |
11323 | What was my name? |
11323 | What was the nature of this power, from which I was to apprehend so much, yet which seemed to leave me at perfect liberty? |
11323 | What wonder that he took some interest in a mind in a certain degree congenial with his own? |
11323 | What-- dark, mysterious, unfeeling, unrelenting tyrant!--is it come to this? |
11323 | When did I ever contradict it? |
11323 | When did you ever know any body resist my will without being made to repent? |
11323 | When should I derive benefit from these superior advantages, if not at present?" |
11323 | Where did the printer get these stories? |
11323 | Where do you expect to find the hearts of flint that shall sympathise with yours? |
11323 | Where is the equality of that? |
11323 | Where, sir, is that? |
11323 | Which of you is so ignorant as to suppose, that his escape is any confirmation of his guilt? |
11323 | Whither was she gone? |
11323 | Who ever thinks, when he is apprehended for trial, of his innocence or guilt as being at all material to the issue? |
11323 | Who killed her? |
11323 | Who told you that I wished to part with you? |
11323 | Whose orders? |
11323 | Why are all these engines at work to torment me? |
11323 | Why are not you gone? |
11323 | Why bring your messages to me?" |
11323 | Why could not I speak the expostulations of my heart, or propose the compromise I meditated? |
11323 | Why did you not suffer me to depart? |
11323 | Why do I consent to live any longer? |
11323 | Why do I seek to drag on an existence, which, if protracted, must be protracted amidst the lairs of these human tigers?" |
11323 | Why do you trifle with me? |
11323 | Why have we the power of speech, but to communicate our thoughts? |
11323 | Why should I despair? |
11323 | Why should I grieve, for what they bear and are merry? |
11323 | Why should I insist upon such aggravations as hunger, beggary, and external wretchedness? |
11323 | Why should I suffer my mind to be invaded by unavailing regrets? |
11323 | Why should I wait the lingering process of legal despotism, and not dare so much as to die, but when and how its instruments decreed? |
11323 | Why should it be in the power of man to overtake and hold me by violence? |
11323 | Why should not I be as daring as they? |
11323 | Why should we be enemies? |
11323 | Why should we both of us be forced to do what neither of us is inclined to? |
11323 | Why should you consign my youthful hopes to suffering and despair? |
11323 | Why should you refuse a proposition dictated by reason, and an equal regard to the interest of each?" |
11323 | Why then,"exclaimed I, a new train of thought suddenly rushing into my mind,"why should I sustain the contest any longer? |
11323 | Why trouble me with your prophecies and forebodings?" |
11323 | Why was it, that I was once more totally overcome by the imperious carriage of Mr. Falkland, and unable to utter a word? |
11323 | Why were not my sufferings permitted to terminate then, and I allowed to hide my weary head in some obscure yet tranquil retreat? |
11323 | Why, man to man, may I not, by the powers of my mind, attain the ascendancy over him? |
11323 | Why, when I choose to withdraw myself, should I not be capable of eluding the most vigilant search? |
11323 | Why, you ha''n''t been tried, ha''you?" |
11323 | Will it be wise in us to exchange this prospect for the fruits of strife? |
11323 | Will you do that? |
11323 | Will you for so paltry a consideration deliver up the lamb into the jaws of the wolf? |
11323 | With respect to all that was solid, what chance could I find in new exertions of a similar nature? |
11323 | With such a cause then to bear us out, shall we stain it with cruelty, malice, and revenge? |
11323 | With what sensations did I ruminate upon this paper? |
11323 | Would he take upon him to say that he had a right, at his pleasure, to suppress a charge of this complicated nature? |
11323 | Would not a compromise in this situation have been most wise and most secure? |
11323 | Would not this conduct on my part betray a base and abject spirit, that crouched under tyranny, and kissed the hands that were imbrued in my blood? |
11323 | Would she set out upon such an expedition by herself? |
11323 | Would you lay down this rule for yourself, and suffer no other creature to take the benefit of it? |
11323 | Would you strip me naked to the weather in the midst of this depopulated forest? |
11323 | Wretch that you are, will nothing move you? |
11323 | Yet was it likely in that case that he should be able to employ Gines and his associate, who had just been his instruments of violence upon my person? |
11323 | You are bailiffs, are not you? |
11323 | You are not murderers?" |
11323 | You expect every body to turn out of his way, and fetch and carry, just as you please? |
11323 | You have a lease, have you? |
11323 | You have not forgot all the kindness you once had for me?" |
11323 | You knew I was sent to prison, did not you?" |
11323 | You threatened me: did I then betray you? |
11323 | Young as I was, could it be expected that I should play the philosopher, and put a perpetual curb upon my inclinations? |
11323 | Your mother left me a hundred pounds: have you ever offered to make any addition to my fortune? |
11323 | and after this will not you give me a reward?" |
11323 | and from what part of Tipperary are you pleased to come?" |
11323 | and must people in prison be shackled and bound of that fashion?--and where do you lay of nights?" |
11323 | and what may have been the nature of your connection with him?" |
11323 | and whether she often brought him materials of this kind? |
11323 | answered my assailant,"what, I suppose you are as poor as a thief? |
11323 | art thou the offspring, in whom the lineaments of these tyrants are faithfully preserved? |
11323 | can you wish not to hear me? |
11323 | caught with mere outside? |
11323 | choosing the flimsy before the substantial? |
11323 | cried Emily,( this was the appellation she delighted to bestow upon the good housekeeper,)"you can not think so? |
11323 | cried he,"what has brought you here?" |
11323 | did not I hear you speak?" |
11323 | did you think you could do and undo, and change things this way and that, as you pleased?" |
11323 | do you see any of the marks of guilt? |
11323 | exclaimed Emily with surprise;"why should we stop? |
11323 | exclaimed Mrs. Hammond,"what does this mean? |
11323 | have you the heart? |
11323 | have you the impudence to think yourself one of our family?" |
11323 | interrupted I, with a stern voice,"do you betray me into the remorseless fangs of the law, and then talk of my not being hurt? |
11323 | is it come to this? |
11323 | it could not be----? |
11323 | of what age she might be? |
11323 | or had they more numerous methods by which to animate and adorn it? |
11323 | rest you satisfied!--So you want to know by what right you are here, do you? |
11323 | said he, in a voice in which commiseration was sufficiently perceptible,"is this you?" |
11323 | said he, with a tone of the greatest imaginable kindness,"how came you thus?" |
11323 | said he,"do you menace us? |
11323 | said one of the voices;"why should we be murderers?" |
11323 | she exclaimed,"what do you mean to do to me?" |
11323 | that I was deprived, by the pestilential influence of some demon, of the opportunity of avenging my dishonour? |
11323 | the affection that was perpetually in your mouth? |
11323 | was it for this that I took you up, when Mr. Underwood dismissed you for your insolence to him? |
11323 | what do you come here for?" |
11323 | what is man? |
11323 | what light did it throw upon the intentions of my inexorable persecutor? |
11323 | what sort of character is that which must be supported by witnesses? |
11323 | which way can he be gone?" |
11323 | who are you? |
11323 | who brought you up? |
11323 | who had forced the basest and most atrocious falsehoods, and urged them with a seriousness and perseverance which produced universal belief? |
11323 | who is there? |
11323 | who opened the door?" |
11323 | who, an hour before, had vowed against me inexorable enmity, and sworn to entail upon me misery without end? |
5121 | A bill- poster? |
5121 | Alone and so dark? |
5121 | Alone? |
5121 | Am I not right, mother? |
5121 | Am I to have your support? |
5121 | And are fond of him? |
5121 | And how came it on the road alone? |
5121 | And is here? |
5121 | And my boy''s adviser? |
5121 | And she''s in there still? |
5121 | And the coincidence of his presence in the ravine? |
5121 | And this fact, with which I have just acquainted you, has done nothing to alter this opinion? |
5121 | And was n''t it? |
5121 | And were you not prepared? |
5121 | And what did you say? |
5121 | And when you saw me indisposed-- unable, in fact, to greet you-- what did you do then? |
5121 | And would this be so fatal to your peace, judge? |
5121 | And you believe that bosh? |
5121 | And you did n''t follow? |
5121 | And you never heard where Oliver went? |
5121 | And your daughter? 5121 Any memorial of the Etheridge case?" |
5121 | Are we alone? |
5121 | Are you going to show me one such as I have described? |
5121 | Are you there? |
5121 | Are you very unhappy? 5121 Averill? |
5121 | Because her father died the death of a criminal? |
5121 | Because of the picture? |
5121 | Behave yourself and treat the judge like a gentleman or--"Or what? |
5121 | But Oliver? |
5121 | But if John should be proved to have suffered wrongfully? 5121 But not enough for the public?" |
5121 | But what can I do? 5121 But you remember it?" |
5121 | But, madam, what proof-- what reason can you have for an assertion so monstrous? |
5121 | But,objected Deborah,"if you know where to look for him, why take the child? |
5121 | Deborah? |
5121 | Deborah? |
5121 | Did Reuther see him? |
5121 | Did the officer you met on your return from Tempest Lodge follow you to Shelby? |
5121 | Did you see him strike the blow? 5121 Did you see?" |
5121 | Do you ask me? |
5121 | Do you mean that you wish to remain there while I work? 5121 Do you mean those roughnesses?" |
5121 | Do you think you can find her with such insufficient data? 5121 Do you, ma''am?" |
5121 | Does the town know? 5121 Ever since--""And how old is Reuther?" |
5121 | Excuse me, Mrs. Yardley, it may be a matter of no moment, but do you mind telling me where this room is? |
5121 | HATED? |
5121 | Has she a child? 5121 Has she shown the greater weakness yet?" |
5121 | Has there ever been anything in his conversation as you knew it in Detroit to make you hesitate to reply? |
5121 | Hated? |
5121 | Have YOU come upon some clew? 5121 Have they come together? |
5121 | Have they that here? |
5121 | Have we? |
5121 | Have you a magnifying- glass? 5121 Have you any idea who this person is?" |
5121 | Have you found out who she is? |
5121 | Have you the messages with you? |
5121 | He did? 5121 He handled the stick that-- that-""Oliver?" |
5121 | He has received letters then? |
5121 | He has told you so? |
5121 | Her status? 5121 His father?" |
5121 | How do you find? 5121 How far are we now from the Lodge?" |
5121 | How long have you been in Detroit? |
5121 | How soon do you want my decision? |
5121 | How''s that? 5121 I can buy the Claymore Tavern, can I? |
5121 | I? |
5121 | Innocent? |
5121 | Is not that the best which can be given a hard- headed, clear- eyed lawyer like yourself? 5121 Is that true?" |
5121 | Is there any objection,he asked,"to Mrs. Scoville''s remaining present at this interview?" |
5121 | Is this your steady reader? |
5121 | It was in his pocket? |
5121 | Judgment, eh? |
5121 | Letters? |
5121 | Marry her? 5121 Meanwhile you will make an attempt to discover the author of these anonymous attacks?" |
5121 | Mrs. Scoville( not Deborah now) have you any confidence in Oliver''s word? |
5121 | Mrs. Yardley, you''ve seen this woman''s face? |
5121 | Must I speak first? |
5121 | Must you go? |
5121 | No article of immense value such as that rare old bit of real Satsuma in the cabinet over there? |
5121 | No one listening on the line? |
5121 | No suspicion? |
5121 | No; why should I? |
5121 | No; why should I? |
5121 | Nobody around? |
5121 | None from Oliver? |
5121 | Not enough for you, either? |
5121 | Not seen her? |
5121 | Nothing on your mind but housekeeping? |
5121 | O, Judge Ostrander, how can you doubt it? |
5121 | Of course they produced the knife? |
5121 | Of his hate? |
5121 | Oh, what now? |
5121 | Oliver is in Canada? |
5121 | Oliver? |
5121 | Oliver? |
5121 | Oliver? |
5121 | On the evidence you mention? |
5121 | Perhaps I am no stranger to you? 5121 Pretty?" |
5121 | Pride or hope? |
5121 | Remember it? |
5121 | Reuther, have I ever been harsh to you? |
5121 | Reuther? 5121 Reuther? |
5121 | Shall I tell the judge the result of his telegram, or will you? |
5121 | Shall we go back and wait for broad daylight? |
5121 | She has n''t confided in you? |
5121 | She was here, then?--a woman with a little child? 5121 Son?" |
5121 | Stayed where? |
5121 | Stuff, is n''t it? |
5121 | That he expected to marry your daughter? 5121 The same by which Judge Ostrander leaves the house?" |
5121 | The train south? |
5121 | Then Miss Weeks''neighbourliness failed in point? 5121 Then what''s the matter with you?" |
5121 | Then, Mrs. Scoville, may I request you to come in? |
5121 | Then, whose blade left that? |
5121 | Then,said he,"it was your child who visited my house to- day?" |
5121 | They are human, are they not? 5121 Was it a new knife, a whole one, I mean, with all its blades sharp and in good order?" |
5121 | Was the child with you-- at your side I mean, all this time? |
5121 | Was this difference of opinion on the calling he should pursue, the cause of Oliver''s leaving home in the way he did? |
5121 | Were you right? 5121 What are your reasons,"said he,"for the hopes you have just expressed? |
5121 | What did he ask you when he came out here? |
5121 | What do you mean by that, your honour? |
5121 | What do you think of him now? |
5121 | What evidence would satisfy YOU? 5121 What have you there?" |
5121 | What is his name? |
5121 | What letters? 5121 What little matter?" |
5121 | What now? |
5121 | What were the words? 5121 What''s that?" |
5121 | What? 5121 Where is Reuther?" |
5121 | Where was this? 5121 Where''s the young lady?" |
5121 | Where, Reuther? 5121 Which he can get by riding fast?" |
5121 | Who advised you? |
5121 | Who are they? |
5121 | Who has been writing to you? 5121 Who is the woman, Mrs. Yardley? |
5121 | Whose horse is this? |
5121 | Why have you waited till NOW? |
5121 | Why is this man my enemy? |
5121 | Why not have made use of this point before it was too late? 5121 Why there?" |
5121 | Why? |
5121 | Will it avail? 5121 Woman, you are keeping nothing back?" |
5121 | Would you trust him enough to believe that he would tell you the truth if you asked him point- blank whether his hands were clean of crime? |
5121 | Yes, you have found them, have you not, lying about the grounds? |
5121 | Yet they are worn? 5121 You allude to the unexplained separation between himself and father, and not to any failure on his part to sustain the reputation of his family?" |
5121 | You are going to pursue this Jack- o''-Lanthorn? |
5121 | You are going to send for Oliver? |
5121 | You believe one person wrote them? |
5121 | You consider them scandalous? |
5121 | You did n''t bring it? |
5121 | You do n''t have many readers for this volume? |
5121 | You found? 5121 You have a point, then, to make?" |
5121 | You may think you have done so, but what assurance can you have of the fact? |
5121 | You remember the shadow I saw which was not that of John Scoville? 5121 You stop because your judgment tells you that you were on the point of making a fool of yourself? |
5121 | You think so? |
5121 | You think that? |
5121 | You want to know what has happened here? 5121 You will join us soon?" |
5121 | You wish that? |
5121 | You? 5121 You? |
5121 | Yourself, madam? |
5121 | ''And what are the places?'' |
5121 | *****"You are going to- night?" |
5121 | A bribe from the woman who had entered there? |
5121 | A flash from the spinster''s wary eye, then a burst of courage and the quick retort:"And what explanation does Oliver himself give? |
5121 | A noise? |
5121 | A pause, then the quick question ringing hollow from the darkness,"Why have your doubts returned? |
5121 | A witness of what? |
5121 | A woman dressed in purple, leading a little child without any hat?" |
5121 | After what I have said and reiterated that he is guilty, GUILTY, GUILTY?" |
5121 | Am I not right, madam?" |
5121 | Am I not right? |
5121 | And he? |
5121 | And how did he take that?" |
5121 | And in the months which followed, when as Reuther''s suitor she saw him often and intimately-- how had she regarded him then? |
5121 | And what do you think has given YOU an opportunity to turn on HIM?" |
5121 | And what have they written?" |
5121 | And what of his conduct towards Reuther? |
5121 | And where am I to get that? |
5121 | And you have a daughter, you say?" |
5121 | And, mamma, are you sure that you are quite happy to- day? |
5121 | Answer me then, as one sorrowing mortal replies to another, had n''t you another reason?" |
5121 | Are we followed?" |
5121 | Are you quite sure that she is a stranger to Shelby? |
5121 | Are you ready? |
5121 | Are you satisfied to share this solitude with me?" |
5121 | Are you watching, sir?" |
5121 | As his widow, as the mother of his child, I implore you to tell me why you showed him this leniency? |
5121 | BOOK II THE HOUSE AND THE ROOM XIII A BIT OF STEEL"When are you going to Judge Ostrander''s?" |
5121 | Balked? |
5121 | Better be singed than consumed? |
5121 | Black''s discouraging advice? |
5121 | Black?" |
5121 | Black?" |
5121 | But Oliver, with a fire which nothing could damp, spoke up again:"Gentlemen, will you see my father so degrade himself? |
5121 | But Reuther? |
5121 | But before she could begin her story, he added this searching question:"Was it he who let you in-- you and others-- I think you said others? |
5121 | But had she been really justified in this easy view of things? |
5121 | But how am I to proceed? |
5121 | But how can you do so? |
5121 | But how was she to reach him? |
5121 | But how will that help you? |
5121 | But if not he, who was it? |
5121 | But to what? |
5121 | But was her fault irremediable? |
5121 | But was there no medium course? |
5121 | But what about the bets?" |
5121 | But what action? |
5121 | But what do you want to see them for? |
5121 | But what has that got to do with the point at issue?" |
5121 | But where could I fly? |
5121 | Can I look in her innocent eyes and believe her father to have so forgotten his responsibilities as to overshadow her life with crime? |
5121 | Can he have arrived home already? |
5121 | Can not you guess it, madam? |
5121 | Can one endure a repetition of such horror? |
5121 | Can she stand the excitement-- the physical strain?" |
5121 | Can we find the man who whittled that stick? |
5121 | Chaos confronted me, and in contemplation of it, I fell ill. What saved me? |
5121 | Could it be that she shared the very serious doubts of Deborah''s anonymous correspondent? |
5121 | Could n''t I have three? |
5121 | Could she not learn from some other source where Oliver had been on the night of that old- time murder? |
5121 | Could she remember what? |
5121 | Dare she lift her eye and meet the gaze she felt concentrated upon her? |
5121 | Did I walk? |
5121 | Did he offer any explanation for this lack of-- of sympathy between us?" |
5121 | Did he perceive this or was it the silence which drew his attention to her condition and the evils still threatening him? |
5121 | Did he remember his own rough handling of the sex on the witness stand? |
5121 | Did her face express intellect, persistence and, above all, courage? |
5121 | Did n''t he marvel and call it extraordinary-- the work of the devil?" |
5121 | Did n''t you say she had a child with her, Miss Weeks?" |
5121 | Did the foreman feel the threat lurking in the air about him? |
5121 | Did you know that he was going down street, leaving the way open behind him? |
5121 | Did you mean that, sir?" |
5121 | Did you observe anything marked about it?" |
5121 | Did you see anything else?" |
5121 | Do n''t you find it a little amusing?" |
5121 | Do n''t you say so, fellows? |
5121 | Do the police retain such things? |
5121 | Do they look at all familiar?" |
5121 | Do they often cry like that?" |
5121 | Do you find anything unnatural in a guilty soul bemoaning its loss rather than its sin, in the spot which recalled both to his overburdened spirit?" |
5121 | Do you know what they say about her house? |
5121 | Do you know"--here he leaned forward, and plunged his eye, now burning with many passions, into hers--"who this enemy is?" |
5121 | Do you remember the old tavern on the Rushville road? |
5121 | Do you want one of them to stay inside? |
5121 | Do you wonder that I recoiled, sought to gain time, put off delivering the sentence from day to day? |
5121 | Etheridge?" |
5121 | Etheridge?" |
5121 | Evidently this intrusive little body did not know Bela or his story, or-- Why should interruption come then? |
5121 | Feeling so, shall I remain quiescent and see youth and love slip from you, without any effort on my part to set this matter straight? |
5121 | For the reason I ascribed to Scoville? |
5121 | Guilty or not guilty?" |
5121 | Had I meant it to be such? |
5121 | Had any one spoken? |
5121 | Had he done wrong to let her join him in this strange ride? |
5121 | Had her clear intelligence pierced at last to the core of that mother''s misery? |
5121 | Had it been altogether favourable and such as would be natural in one of his repute? |
5121 | Had n''t I better find out?" |
5121 | Had she found her way out front while they approached from the rear? |
5121 | Had she impressed him? |
5121 | Had she played her part with success? |
5121 | Had she seen what Deborah would have spared her at the cost of her own life? |
5121 | Had that been all her mother heart could ask of a man of his seemingly high instincts? |
5121 | Had the compulsion arisen? |
5121 | Had the separation of years rendered them callous to every mutual impression? |
5121 | Had time stopped here too? |
5121 | Has not my long life of solitude within these walls sufficiently proved this? |
5121 | Has the thing become a scandal-- a byword? |
5121 | Have I counted too much on your good- nature?" |
5121 | Have I not read your mind, madam?" |
5121 | Have I said enough? |
5121 | Have YOU heard something which I have not?" |
5121 | Have any of us ever made the like acknowledgment and then tried to sleep? |
5121 | Have the detectives got him?" |
5121 | Have you a cap like that?" |
5121 | Have you any idea?" |
5121 | Have you understood all this?" |
5121 | He had every wish and had made every preparation to marry my child, when-- Shall I go on?" |
5121 | He knew who you were then?" |
5121 | He was dead, DEAD, DEAD!--And I? |
5121 | How came John Scoville to hang, without a thought being given to the man who hated A. Etheridge like poison? |
5121 | How can I be made sure that they wo n''t yield to the temptation of their position and climb the fences they are detailed to guard?" |
5121 | How could I dream that your nerves could not bear any sudden shock? |
5121 | How could she sit there and read words, with the blood pounding in her veins and her eyes half blind with terror and excitement? |
5121 | How do you feel, my-- my dear? |
5121 | How do you know that the fact you mention was coincident with the crime? |
5121 | How should you know where to look for him?" |
5121 | How singed and how consumed? |
5121 | How soon do you think I can speak to her?" |
5121 | How would these women regard the disorder and the dust? |
5121 | I do n''t suppose that there is really anything behind that door of his which it would alarm any one to see?" |
5121 | I may rely on you?" |
5121 | I see a way--"What change was this to which she had suddenly become witness? |
5121 | I spoke of a miracle-- Will you not listen, judge? |
5121 | I''ll--"Why did his eye wander to the nearest window, and his words trail away into silence? |
5121 | I-- What''s that?" |
5121 | II WAS HE LIVING-- WAS HE DEAD? |
5121 | II WAS HE LIVING?--WAS HE DEAD? |
5121 | III BELA THE REDOUBTABLE IV"AND WHERE WAS I WHEN ALL THIS HAPPENED?" |
5121 | IV"AND WHERE WAS I WHEN ALL THIS HAPPENED?" |
5121 | If I let him go, would another such chance of delivering his father''s message be given me? |
5121 | If he should be shown to have been innocent?" |
5121 | If one such scrap can be thrown over the fence, why should n''t another be? |
5121 | If she had--""Well, what?" |
5121 | In her anxiety to determine, she hesitatingly remarked:"Not the man who writes those anonymous letters?" |
5121 | In what pit of despair had it finally gone down? |
5121 | Irish or Scotch?" |
5121 | Is he well? |
5121 | Is her reading correct? |
5121 | Is my little one pining too much for the old days?" |
5121 | Is n''t that it?" |
5121 | Is she a mother?" |
5121 | Is she maid, wife or widow?" |
5121 | Is that so? |
5121 | Is that true, or were you merely trying to cheer your mother?" |
5121 | Is the door quite shut?" |
5121 | Is there a train he is anxious to reach? |
5121 | Is there any one with you?" |
5121 | Is there any possibility of my finding it laid away in some drawer at Headquarters or on some dusty shelf?" |
5121 | Is there anything impossible or even improbable about all this? |
5121 | Is there anything you would like? |
5121 | It did not prevent him, however, from asking quite abruptly:"In what shape and by what means did this communication reach you?" |
5121 | May I rely upon the police to do this, beginning to- night at an early hour? |
5121 | Might I not have time for-- for what? |
5121 | Miss Weeks, did you know Algernon Etheridge well enough to tell me if he was as good and irreproachable a man as they all say?" |
5121 | Money? |
5121 | Mr. Black, shall we be going? |
5121 | Mr. Sloan, is there a train?" |
5121 | Mrs. Yardley, will you procure me an immediate interview with this woman? |
5121 | My man, Bela--"Then with his former abruptness:"Have you no idea who this Mrs. Averill is, or why she broke into my house?" |
5121 | No one knew of the quarrel; and if they did, who could be so daring as to associate one of my name with an action so brutal? |
5121 | No other reason, eh?" |
5121 | No, do n''t speak; just ask Mr. Black to return, will you?" |
5121 | Nor was her chin weak; sometimes she had thought it too pronounced for beauty; but what had she to do with beauty now? |
5121 | Of anything which the discovery of these articles might substantiate? |
5121 | Oh, father, will such an angel marry me?" |
5121 | One for each gate and one to patrol the fence separating these grounds from the adjoining lot?" |
5121 | Only, who is to protect me against your men?" |
5121 | Or can it be that you are not yet convinced of our wisdom in ignoring this diabolic attack upon one whose reputation is as dear to us as our own? |
5121 | Or had it another and much simpler explanation? |
5121 | Or if it was he, and some other hand threw his stick across my path, whose was this hand and why have we never heard anything about it? |
5121 | Or why his foolish story of having left his stick behind him at the chestnut? |
5121 | Ostrander?" |
5121 | Perhaps you have come upon the like?" |
5121 | Perhaps you know my name?" |
5121 | Reuther? |
5121 | Sagacious, eh? |
5121 | Scoville?" |
5121 | Scoville?" |
5121 | Shall I call Samuel?" |
5121 | Shall I go?" |
5121 | Shall I make a light?" |
5121 | Shall we go?" |
5121 | She catches one glimpse ahead of her, and sees-- What does she see? |
5121 | She has reached the road debouching towards the bridge-- has crossed it-- is drawing near-- nearer-- when, what is this? |
5121 | She may mean harm; I''ve heard of such things, and are we goin''to see the judge in danger and do nothin''?" |
5121 | She was not as interesting as you had a right to expect from my recommendation?" |
5121 | Should I light the hall gas as I went by? |
5121 | Should it not make her pause? |
5121 | Should she go away, or stop and take one peep just to see that there really was another and similar fence inside of this one? |
5121 | Should she let everything go and let him know her mind, or should she continue to conceal it? |
5121 | Should she tell him? |
5121 | Should-- should we have to keep the gates locked?" |
5121 | So the double fence means nothing?" |
5121 | Sympathy with her, as he would have her believe, or a secret feeling of animosity towards the man he openly professed to admire? |
5121 | THEN WHY SUCH MAGNANIMITY TOWARDS THE MAN WHO STOOD ON TRIAL FOR KILLING HIM?" |
5121 | That last page-- need I say it?" |
5121 | That was about it, was n''t it, sir?" |
5121 | The house was full of young men; how pick out the friend? |
5121 | The judge hesitated, then motioning Black to sit, said abruptly:"What is Andrews''attitude in this matter?" |
5121 | The one great question which had agitated her was this: Should she trust the judge? |
5121 | The sense of some presence near, if not intrusive? |
5121 | The young fellow went off pretty quick, eh?" |
5121 | Then a troubled cry:"Oh, judge, are you here?" |
5121 | Then as his mind regained its full poise,"And how, even if you had the temerity to venture an entrance here, did you manage to pass my gates? |
5121 | Then shortly,"What is his attitude?" |
5121 | Then, a sound like smothered greetings, followed by quickly advancing steps and a voice she knew:"How is my father? |
5121 | They shouted,''Where is Oliver, your guilty son, Oliver? |
5121 | This was shown by his first question:"WHERE IS THE WOMAN?" |
5121 | To go back to their first meeting, what impression had he made upon her then? |
5121 | To the question,''Why these barriers?'' |
5121 | VIII WITH HER VEIL LIFTED"MRS.--""You recognise me?" |
5121 | WHAT HAD MADE THE CHANGE? |
5121 | Was he as close- mouthed in speaking of me to her as he was to you?" |
5121 | Was he dead?--stricken by the sight of so many faces in a doorway considered sacred from all intrusion? |
5121 | Was he destined to witness in this solitary meeting a return of the phenomenon which had so startled the intruding populace that morning? |
5121 | Was he gone also?--this man of inalterable habits-- gone before Bela''s return-- a thing he had not been known to do in the last twelve years? |
5121 | Was he living? |
5121 | Was her own uneasiness infectious? |
5121 | Was his father keeping vigil also? |
5121 | Was it a stroke, or just one of his attacks of which all had heard? |
5121 | Was it for her to touch, to rearrange, to render clean and orderly this place of unknown memories? |
5121 | Was it he who unlocked my gates?" |
5121 | Was it mine any longer? |
5121 | Was it natural? |
5121 | Was it the peaked one?--the like of which you have n''t in your marvelous collection?" |
5121 | Was it the police? |
5121 | Was it the woman? |
5121 | Was not the man, who could bring his hand down upon so frail and exquisite a creature as Reuther was in those days, capable of any act of violence? |
5121 | Was she as anxious to see him now as she had been in the early morning? |
5121 | Was she daunted? |
5121 | Was she giving the judge an opportunity to recover from his embarrassment, or was she simply making good her own cause? |
5121 | Was she quite alone in the seemingly quiet street? |
5121 | Was that a sob? |
5121 | Was the alienation between these two so complete as to block out natural sympathy? |
5121 | Was the child determined to share her vigil? |
5121 | Was the judge falling again into unconsciousness? |
5121 | Was the woman gone? |
5121 | Was there any sound in the air at all? |
5121 | Was there collusion between you?" |
5121 | Was this attempt at unconcern, so pitiably transparent to her, made in an endeavour to probe her mind or to deceive his own? |
5121 | Was this last a confession? |
5121 | Was this meant as an innuendo? |
5121 | Was this swelling of her impetuous heart in the midst of such suspense an instinct of thankfulness? |
5121 | Was this the judge speaking? |
5121 | We are followed then?" |
5121 | Were minutes really so long-- the house really so far away? |
5121 | Were the world and its interests at a pause in horror of my deed? |
5121 | Were there any opportune shadows to betray what happened between the instant of-- let us say Oliver''s approach and the fall of my friend? |
5121 | Were they to miss its solution, when only a door lay between it and them-- a door which they might not even have to unlock? |
5121 | What am I to say now to the judge?" |
5121 | What are we to think of that? |
5121 | What are you after? |
5121 | What awaited her? |
5121 | What awaited the judge? |
5121 | What could such treachery mean, and what was her neighbourly duty under circumstances so unparalleled? |
5121 | What could you have found?" |
5121 | What did he put in the balance,--or what have others put in the balance, to send your passionate intentions flying up to the beam? |
5121 | What did she expect to see in it which others had not seen many times? |
5121 | What did she see? |
5121 | What did the men shout?" |
5121 | What did you see then or-- hear?" |
5121 | What do you mean by that? |
5121 | What do you say, Black?" |
5121 | What do you think, Miss Weeks?" |
5121 | What do you want to see that for? |
5121 | What does this man know? |
5121 | What else have you against him? |
5121 | What evidence lies back of these shouts? |
5121 | What had happened? |
5121 | What has made him thus suddenly careless, he who has never been careless before? |
5121 | What help can you get out of that?" |
5121 | What is it? |
5121 | What is it? |
5121 | What is that something? |
5121 | What is there in this to rouse a whole neighbourhood and collect before it a group of eager, anxious, hesitating people? |
5121 | What lay behind this new and penetrating look, this anxious and yet persistent manner? |
5121 | What madness was this? |
5121 | What message did it carry from Deborah''s warm, true heart that its influence should be so miraculous? |
5121 | What might it not tell of a past concerning which she longed to be reassured? |
5121 | What more did I need as proof that it was his shadow I saw?" |
5121 | What right had we to come in here?" |
5121 | What shall we do? |
5121 | What task?" |
5121 | What took you into the ravine that evening, Oliver, and why, having picked up the stick, did you fling it from you and fly back to the highway? |
5121 | What use? |
5121 | What was I to do? |
5121 | What was I? |
5121 | What was at the bottom of Mr. Black''s contradictory assertions? |
5121 | What was coming? |
5121 | What was it? |
5121 | What was its charm? |
5121 | What was its secret? |
5121 | What was lacking in her statement? |
5121 | What was on the paper? |
5121 | What was this goal? |
5121 | What will your mother say?" |
5121 | What witness? |
5121 | What would YOU consider a conclusive proof of guilt?" |
5121 | What? |
5121 | What?" |
5121 | When, Oliver, when?" |
5121 | When-- how-- did you first learn my real reason for sending you from home? |
5121 | Where did you ever get them?" |
5121 | Where is Bela? |
5121 | Where is Oliver?" |
5121 | Where is she now?" |
5121 | Where look for him, then? |
5121 | Where was her courage now? |
5121 | Who spoke? |
5121 | Who? |
5121 | Why are you raking up these bygones which only make the present condition of affairs darker and more hopeless? |
5121 | Why did he go off quite so suddenly? |
5121 | Why did n''t I take advantage of their absorption to fly? |
5121 | Why did you do this? |
5121 | Why do you mention it and-- and his tavern?" |
5121 | Why else should she go into a strange gate just because she saw it open?" |
5121 | Why go yourself? |
5121 | Why have I not thought of this before? |
5121 | Why might it not be so in my case? |
5121 | Why not telegraph to these places?" |
5121 | Why should I? |
5121 | Why should she recoil again at that? |
5121 | Why should she take from that hard- faced lawyer what she had not been willing to take from himself? |
5121 | Why then did she allow them to remain, the one in the closet, the other in the drawer? |
5121 | Why then had she felt it impossible to finish her sentence? |
5121 | Why this instinctive move? |
5121 | Why? |
5121 | Why? |
5121 | Why? |
5121 | Why? |
5121 | Will they let him continue on the bench when his full condition is known?" |
5121 | Will you accept the position, if I add as an inducement my desire to have Reuther also as an inmate of my home? |
5121 | Will you come to the bluff where the ruins are one- half hour before sunset? |
5121 | Will you explain how you came to do this? |
5121 | Will you fill your glass again, sergeant?" |
5121 | Will you hear it, judge? |
5121 | Will you lift your veil, madam?" |
5121 | Will you wait here for just a few minutes?" |
5121 | With what purpose? |
5121 | Wo n''t it help you to know this, Reuther? |
5121 | Would he himself be able to? |
5121 | Would her quest be facilitated or irretrievably hindered by her presence in the judge''s house? |
5121 | Would it lighten again? |
5121 | Would it not be better to give her a rest for to- night, judge?" |
5121 | Would n''t the judge''s objections, in that case, be removed? |
5121 | Would the judge pass this body, or turn away from it towards a door leading front? |
5121 | Would the man still in possession of the paper whose contents had brought about this attack understand these evidences of apprehension? |
5121 | Would the woman come? |
5121 | Would you have me cherish any further illusions after that?" |
5121 | XII SOUNDS IN THE NIGHT Dearest Mother: Where could we go that disgrace would not follow us? |
5121 | XVII UNWELCOME TRUTHS XVIII REFLECTIONS XIX ALANSON BLACK XX WHAT HAD MADE THE CHANGE? |
5121 | XX WHAT HAD MADE THE CHANGE? |
5121 | XXI IN THE COURT ROOM XXII BEFORE THE GATES XXIII THE MISFORTUNES OF MY HOUSE XXIV ONE SECRET LESS XXV"WHAT DO YOU THINK OF HIM NOW?" |
5121 | XXV"WHAT DO YOU THINK OF HIM NOW?" |
5121 | XXX TEMPEST LODGE"What''s that?" |
5121 | XXXI ESCAPE"Oliver? |
5121 | YOU believe-- and on what evidence?" |
5121 | Yet would she have welcomed any sound-- the least which could have been heard? |
5121 | Yet, what else was there to believe? |
5121 | Yet, why not? |
5121 | You can not wish her to become the butt of these scandalous attempts?" |
5121 | You do detect some resemblance between this writing and the specimen you have at home?" |
5121 | You do n''t mind the child, do you, judge? |
5121 | You have seen such?" |
5121 | You know that exception?" |
5121 | You remember that he had been whittling at the stick--""Who?" |
5121 | You understand me, sergeant?" |
5121 | You understand, my dear, and will excuse an old man''s eccentricities?" |
5121 | You were at your husband''s trial; you were even on the witness- stand?" |
5121 | You were in search of information, I see; information against the best, the brightest-- Well, why do n''t you speak? |
5121 | You were not long in Utica?" |
5121 | and again, why? |
5121 | and cautious, eh? |
5121 | good friend, what?" |
5121 | he confronted the one witness of his anguish of whose presence he was aware, and fiercely demanded:"Where are the wretches who have done this? |
5121 | must she answer that? |
5121 | or that Bela-- that giant among negroes-- would be so affected by his emotions that he would not see or hear an approaching automobile? |
5121 | she murmured in quick admonishment;"what is that other sound? |
5121 | shut the door, ca n''t you, before it''s blown from its hinges? |
5121 | was her mind veering back to her old idea as to his responsibility for the crime committed in Dark Hollow? |