A Prince of Sinners E Phillips Oppenheim BOOK 3 CHAPTER 6 ppsx

... 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 Oppenheim BOOK 3 CHAPTER ... "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...

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... 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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... 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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... 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 glim...

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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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... branches, and all I got back was a polite reply from your secretary to the effect that the general public even subscribers- -were never allowed in any of the branches as sightseers, and that all ... she exclaimed, "come home with us at once, and explain how you dared to avoid us all this time. What a ghost you A Prince of Sinners E. Phillips Oppenheim BOOK 3 C...

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... sarcastic paragraph declined to believe that Brooks had ever received a thousand pounds anonymously challenged him to give the number of the note, and said plainly that he considered it a fraud. ... replied. "Fellow has a lot of branches, and tries to make 'em a sort of family affair. He gets a pile of subscriptions, and declines to publish a balance- sheet. L...

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... have set going the greatest charitable scheme of the generation, and yet you are so young, so very young." He laughed a little uneasily. In some vague way he felt that he had displeased ... life, and was attired in frock coat and silk hat his tie and collar of a new fashion, even his bearing altered at least so it seemed to her jealous observation. He was certainly looking bet...

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... to keep their places open at all are planning extensions already. The wages bill throughout the country will be the largest next week that has been paid for years. Travellers are off to the Colonies ... existence after a leisurely interval as a matter of course. I have never seen in any one of his actions, or heard in his tone one single indication of anything save selfishness s...

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