A spot of colour rose suddenly to Mrs. Strickland's pale cheeks."What is she like?"I hesitated a little. I knew that I had a bombshell."There isn't a woman."Colonel MacAndrew and his wife uttered expressions of incredulity, and Mrs. Strickland sprang to her feet."Do you mean to say you never saw her...
... his eager face how much it meant to him, this first sight of that strange spot where the men of his blood had held sway so long and left their mark so deep. There he sat, with his tweed suit and his American accent, in the corner of a prosaic railway-carriage, and yet as I looked at his dark and ex...
...within reach had suspended their
business or their idleness, to run to the spot and drink the wine. The rough,
irregular stones of the street, pointing every way, and designed, one might
have thought, expressly to lame all living creatures that approached them, had
dammed it into little pools; these...
... Slinger and Merlin Greeves, had carried two large food baskets to a shady spot under some trees. When they had all made themselves comfortable, a stranger appeared. He looked very angry. 'Now you get out of here, all of you!' he shouted. 'I'msheriff here. Do you see that notice? It ...