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Without a care to trouble her; abroad or at home, finding inexhaustible varieties of amusement; seeing new places, making new acquaintances—what a disheartening contrast did Cecilia’s happy life pres…
Having looked at the card, Emily put her first question to the servant. “Did you tell Mr. Morris what your orders were?” she asked. “Yes, miss; I said I was to have shown him in, if you had been at…
“I got invited to Sir Jervis’s house,” Alban resumed, “by treating the old savage as unceremoniously as he had treated me. ‘That’s an idle trade of yours,’ he said, looking at my sketch. ‘Other ignor…
Emily’s first day in the City library proved to be a day wasted. She began reading the back numbers of the newspaper at haphazard, without any definite idea of what she was looking for. Conscious of…
Mr. Rook having completed his evidence, the police authorities were the next witnesses examined. They had not found the slightest trace of any attempt to break into the house in the night. The murde…
The servant received Emily, on her return from the library, with a sly smile. “Here he is again, miss, waiting to see you.” She opened the parlor door, and revealed Alban Morris, as restless as ever…
If Emily’s eyes could have followed Alban as her thoughts were following him, she would have seen him stop before he reached the end of the road in which the cottage stood. His heart was full of tend…
“You’re surprised to see me, of course?” Saluting Emily in those terms, Francine looked round the parlor with an air of satirical curiosity. “Dear me, what a little place to live in!” “What brings y…
Mrs. Ellmother reluctantly entered the room. Since Emily had seen her last, her personal appearance doubly justified the nickname by which her late mistress had distinguished her. The old servant wa…
The arrival of Miss Ladd, some time before she had been expected, interrupted the two girls at a critical moment. She had hurried over her business in London, eager to pass the rest of the day with h…
