``Well, I stepped to the little hanging gas-jet to light it, and, having done so, stood contemplatively holding the gas-jet and the cigar in either hand, thinking what a saving it would be to smoke a pipe, when, in my absent-mindedness, I dropped the cigar and put the gas-jet into my mouth. Strange as it may appear, I felt no pain, and stood there holding the thing in my mouth and puffing till the man in charge yelled out to me that I was swallowing his gas. Then I looked up, and, sure enough, there I was pulling away at the slender flame that came from the glass tube.英文原著 · 《The Miracle Mongers》
Who found the morsels of his letter in the basket? Who stuck them together? Ah, _we_ know! Don't read it, Bony. 'Dear Miss Jethro'--don't read it again. 'Miss Jethro' in his letter; and 'Sara,' when he talks to himself in the garden. Oh, who would have believed it of him, if we hadn't seen and heard it ourselves!"
There was no more doubt now. But who was the man, so bitterly and so regretfully alluded to?英文原著 · 《I SAY NO》
He never even noticed it. "We have both of us behaved most unkindly to Mrs. Rook," she resumed. "I can excuse your not seeing it; for I should not have seen it either, but for the newspaper. While I was reading, I had an opportunity of thinking over what we said and did, when the poor woman's behavior so needlessly offended us. I was too excited to think, at the time--and, besides, I had been upset, only the night before, by what Miss Jethro said to me."
Alban started. "What has Miss Jethro to do with it?" he asked. "Nothing at all," Emily answered.英文原著 · 《I SAY NO》
Morris is a gentleman by profession; and--may I venture to say it, Miss Emily?--a valued friend of yours as well. Who has a better claim to be one of my guests?"
Cecilia stopped her father as he was about to leave the room. "I suppose we mustn't ask Mr. Mirabel what he knows of Miss Jethro?" she said. "My dear, what can you be thinking of? What right have we to question Mr. Mirabel about Miss Jethro?"
"It's so very unsatisfactory, papa. There must be some reason why Emily and Mr.英文原著 · 《I SAY NO》
In his place, I should have insisted on knowing why she wanted to prevent me from meeting Mr. Mirabel in this house."
Cecilia made another unlucky attempt at judicious interference. This time, she tried a gentle remonstrance. "Remember, Emily, how Mr. Morris was situated. He could hardly be rude to a lady. And I daresay Miss Jethro had good reasons for not wishing to explain herself."
Francine opened the drawing-room door and heard Cecilia's last words. "Miss Jethro again!" she exclaimed.英文原著 · 《I SAY NO》
"What persons?" he said. "Persons whom I suspect."
"Name them."
Emily named the landlady of the inn at Zeeland: she could now place the right interpretation on Mrs. Rook's conduct, when the locket had been put into her hand at Netherwoods. Doctor Allday answered shortly and stiffly: he had never even seen Mrs. Emily mentioned Miss Jethro next--and saw at once that she had interested him. "What do you suspect Miss Jethro of doing?" he asked. "I suspect her of knowing more of my father's death than she is willing to acknowledge," Emily replied. The doctor's manner altered for the better.英文原著 · 《I SAY NO》