Oh, no; I had never suspected that! I would never before have permitted such a hideous suspicion to enter my mind.

Was it possible that Mr.Earl had sent me away from England in order to save my life?
My hands began to tremble, and I felt my face turning red and pale under the searching eyes of my uncle.
"My boy," said he, "if all the murders were done that men conceive, the devil would live alone on earth.

We shall know some time--I tell you we shall know! Let us go to Rayel," he said, rising and leading the way.
The interview had greatly excited him, and his speech seemed even more halting and labored than before.

Many of his words were mispronounced and separated by long pauses; but his manner was marvelously expressive, and often a peculiar turn of the eye or movement of the hand made his meaning clear when I was in doubt about his words.
I followed him through a long gymnasium and out upon a grassy courtyard extending along the rear of the grounds parallel with the river wall for a hundred yards or more, and adorned with beds of flowers.

It was completely shut off from the eye of the outside world by a thick grove and an impenetrable growth of underbrush that reached beyond the lowest branches of the trees.