 | Emil Otto - 1869 - 192 pages
...give me a chance of taking him down.7 The button was therefore removed without his perceiving 13 it. Great was my anxiety to know the success of my measure, and it succeeded but too well. "The hour of interrogation arrived, and the boy was questioned : he sought, as 14 usual... | |
 | Percy Sadler - French language - 1870 - 282 pages
...les fois que that est sous-entendu en Anglais il faul I'exprimer en Fran^ais. his perceiving it1 . Great was my anxiety to know the success of my measure, and it succeeded but too well. " The hour of interrogation arrived, and the boy was questioned : he sought, as usual,... | |
 | Percy Sadler - French language - 1872 - 302 pages
...give me a chance of taking Lin down . The button was therefore removed without his perceiving it . Great was my anxiety to know the success of my measure, and it succeeded but too well. " The hour of interrogation arrived, and the boy was questioned : he sought, as usual,... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart, Henry Irwin Jenkinson - 1873 - 428 pages
...question was asked him he always fumbled with his fingers at a particular button in the lower part of his waistcoat. To remove it, therefore, became expedient...succeeded too well. When the boy was again questioned, his finger sought again for the button, but it was not to be found. In his distress he looked down for... | |
 | Alexander Hislop (publisher) - 1874 - 786 pages
...question was asked him he always fumbled with his fingers at a particular button on the lower part of his waistcoat. To remove it, therefore, became expedient...anxiety to know the success of my measure, and it sueceeded too well. When the boy was again questioned, his fingers sought at once for the button, but... | |
 | Hugues Charles S. Cassal - 1875 - 182 pages
...question was asked him, he always fumbled with his fingers at a particular button in the lower part of his waistcoat. To remove it, therefore, became expedient...When the boy was again questioned, his fingers sought again for the button, but it was not to be found. In his distress he looked down for it ; it was to... | |
 | Alexander Hislop (publisher) - 1875 - 378 pages
...question was asked him he always fumbled with his fingers at a particular button on the lower part of his waistcoat. To remove it, therefore, became expedient...anxiety to know the success of my measure, and it sueceeded too well. When the boy was again questioned, his fingers sought at once for the button, but... | |
 | Henri van Laun - 1876 - 120 pages
...give me a chance of taking him down.6 The button was therefore removed without his perceiving it.1" Great was my anxiety to know the success of my measure," and it succeeded but too well. ' "The hour of interrogation arrived, and the boy was questioned : he sought as usual... | |
 | H E Goldschmidt - 1877 - 102 pages
...give me a chance of taking him down.7 The button was therefore removed without his perceiving it.i8 Great was my anxiety to know the success of my measure, and it succeeded but too well. Author, @d)riftftel(er. — 2 At school, in ter @i^ute. — 8la after-life, im fpatern... | |
 | Celebrities - 1881 - 426 pages
...question was asked him, he always fumbled with his fingers at a particular button on the lower part of his waistcoat. To remove it, therefore, became expedient...When the boy was again questioned, his fingers sought again for the button, but it was not to be found. In his distress he looked down for it ; it was to... | |
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... the lower part of his waistcoat. To remove it, therefore, became expedient in my eyes, and in an evil moment it was removed with a knife. Great was my anxiety to know the success of my measure; and it succeeded too well. 
