A Prince of Sinners E Phillips Oppenheim BOOK 2 CHAPTER 6 ppsx

... hall at the same time, and turned homewards, walking like a man in a dream. Breathless he reached Brooks' side. The sweat stood out in beads upon his forehead. He seemed not to hear a ... paper out, and read through every line carefully. A few minutes after his arrival home he re-issued from the house in a bowler hat and a long, loose overcoat. He took the Metropolit...

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... horses are never more than half exercised. At 10:30 to-morrow then." He stood bareheaded upon the pavement for a moment, and Selina's eyes and smile had never worked harder. Mary leaned ... into the street together. Arranmore stepped into his brougham and was driven off. At the top of St. James's Street he pulled the check-string and jumped out. He had caught a glimp...

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... suggestions, and advertisements. There were small sums of money, and a few larger ones. He was amused to find that a great many people addressed him as an infidel the little mission preacher had ... plunged into a correspondence as various as it was voluminous. There were letters of abuse, of sympathy, of friendship, of remonstrance, of reproof. There were offers of he...

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... "You have asked me a very difficult question," he said at last. "She has had a very unhappy sort of life. Her father and mother died in Canada her father shot himself, and her mother ... died of the shock. She went to live with an uncle at Medchester, who was good to her, but his household could scarcely have been A Prince of Sinners E. Phillips Oppenhei...

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... times as these an almost repellent hardness. His emotions, and the man himself, seemed frozen. Lady Caroom had seen him look like it once before, and she sighed. Nevertheless, she persevered. ... moments passed altogether away, seemed to deepen every line in his hard, clear-cut face. His mouth was close drawn, his eyes were suddenly colder and expressionless. There was about him at such...

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... people. I am sure there are more impossibilities in the peerage than in the nouveaux riches. I know heaps of people who because their names are in Debrett seem to think that manners are unnecessary, ... "have been very pleasant. It has all been such a different life for me. A few months ago I knew no one except a few of the Medchester people, and was working hard to make a...

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... with Henslow in a somewhat depressed state of mind, and its result had not been enlivening. Were all politics like this? Was the greatest of causes, the cause of the people, to be tossed about ... question of another party. You have set the ball rolling, and I can assure you that the next Member whom Medchester sends here, whether it be you or any one else, will come fully pledg...

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... "You were really very clever. Now do have some more tea, and tell me all the news." "I will have the tea, if you please," he answered, "and you shall have the news, such as ... think that I was wrong. It was many years ago, and he has repented." Brooks smiled faintly. The idea of Lord Arranmore repenting of anything appealed in some measure to his sens...

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... law, stronger than all mankind, unconquerable, eternal. There wasn't the smallest corner of the world the better for my broken life. There wasn't a child, a man, or a woman content ... have not quite decided what my particular line shall be, but I have no doubt but that the papers will all be calling me a welcome addition to that august assembly before long. I believe...

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... hand and bathe them every day. As we get to know the people better and appreciate their special needs other things will suggest themselves. But I want them to feel that they have some place to ... good-natured cheerfulness. If there had been a shadow she had brushed it away ruthlessly. Even on that terrible afternoon at Enton she had sat in the cab white and silent she had appealed to ....

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