Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page, 1914 - 428 pages |
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Page 419
... Lord Stowell in front of me shivered a little , looked at the window , and then said : 66 Prisoner at the bar , our ... Sir Ralph Rooksby of Horton Priory in Kent . " , I did keep cool ; I was lucid ; I spoke like that . I had my eyes ...
... Lord Stowell in front of me shivered a little , looked at the window , and then said : 66 Prisoner at the bar , our ... Sir Ralph Rooksby of Horton Priory in Kent . " , I did keep cool ; I was lucid ; I spoke like that . I had my eyes ...
Page 420
... Lord Stowell looked grimmer , less kind , more ancient , more impossible to bring a ray of sympathy to . Down below , the barristers of the prosecution leaned back with their arms all folded , and the air of men resting in an interval ...
... Lord Stowell looked grimmer , less kind , more ancient , more impossible to bring a ray of sympathy to . Down below , the barristers of the prosecution leaned back with their arms all folded , and the air of men resting in an interval ...
Page 423
... Lord Mayor , the Lord Mayor passed it to Lord Stowell , who opened it with a jerking motion of an ancient fashion that impressed me immensely . It was as if I , there at the end of my life , were looking at a man opening a letter of the ...
... Lord Mayor , the Lord Mayor passed it to Lord Stowell , who opened it with a jerking motion of an ancient fashion that impressed me immensely . It was as if I , there at the end of my life , were looking at a man opening a letter of the ...
Page 424
... Sir Robert Gifford say : " What ! Never ! . . . too infamous , .. and then the interest and the light seemed to flicker ... Lord Stowell said suddenly , " Prisoner at the bar , some gentle- men have volunteered statements on your behalf ...
... Sir Robert Gifford say : " What ! Never ! . . . too infamous , .. and then the interest and the light seemed to flicker ... Lord Stowell said suddenly , " Prisoner at the bar , some gentle- men have volunteered statements on your behalf ...
Page 425
... lordships will bear with me a little . He obviously can't call his own witnesses . If he has been treated as he says , it has been one of the most abominable • • Old Lord Stowell said , " Ch't , ch't , Mr. Walker ; you know you must not ...
... lordships will bear with me a little . He obviously can't call his own witnesses . If he has been treated as he says , it has been one of the most abominable • • Old Lord Stowell said , " Ch't , ch't , Mr. Walker ; you know you must not ...
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