 | Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 284 pages
...passes out through it as he came in, and escapes. He has done the murder ; no eye has seen him, no ear heard him. The secret is his own, and it is safe !...that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe nowhere. The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner where the guilty can bestow it... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 284 pages
...came in, and escapes. He has done the murder ; no eye has seen him, no ear heard him. The secret i* his own, and it is safe ! Ah, gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe nowhere. The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner where the guilty can bestow it... | |
 | John Todd - 1839 - 444 pages
...over the wounds of the poniard. To finish the picture, he explores the wrist for the pulse. He feels it, and ascertains that it beats no longer!" " It...him. The secret is his own, and it is safe /" " Ah ! that was a dreadful mistake ! Such a secret can be safe nowhere! The whole creation of God has neither... | |
 | Daniel Webster, James Rees - 1839 - 108 pages
...replaces it again over the wounds of the poinard ! To finish the picture, he explores the wrist for the pulse ! He feels for it, and ascertains that it beats...no eye has seen him — no ear has heard him. The tecret is his own, and it is safe ! CONSCIENCE. Ah ! gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such 6*... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1839 - 322 pages
...replaces it again over the wounds of the poniard ! To finish the picture, he explores the wrist for the pulse ! He feels for it, and ascertains that it beats...no longer ! It is accomplished. The deed is done. lie retreats, retraces his steps to the window, passes out through it, as he came in, and escapes.... | |
 | George Willson - 1840 - 298 pages
...the wounds of the poniard ! To finish the picture, ho explores the wrist for the pulse ! he . feels it, and ascertains that it beats no longer! It is...Ah! gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a 8 secret can be safe nowhere. The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner, where the guilty... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1841 - 682 pages
...replaces it again over the wounds of the poniard ! To finish the picture, he explores the wrist for the pulse ! He feels for it, and ascertains that it beats...gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can he safe nowhere. The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner, where the guilty can bestow... | |
 | 1841 - 618 pages
...replaces it again over the wounds of the poniard ! To finish the picture, he explores the wrist for the pulse ! He feels for it, and ascertains that it beats...has heard him. The secret is his own, and it is safe ! 4 Ah ! gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe nowhere. The whole creation... | |
 | George Merriam - 1841 - 308 pages
...He feels for it, and ascertains that it beats no longer! It ia accomplished. The deed is done. lie retreats, retraces his steps to the window, passes...through it, as he came in, and escapes. He has done the murder,—no eye has seen him, no ear has heard him. The secret is his own, and it is safe ! 11. Ah!... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 pages
...replaces it again over the wounds of the poniard! To finish the picture, he explores the wrist for the pulse ! He feels for it, and ascertains that it beats...that was a dreadful mistake ! Such a secret can be safe nowhere. The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner, where the guilty can bestow it,... | |
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It is accomplished. The deed is done. He retreats, retraces his steps to the window, passes out through it as he came in, and escapes. He has done the murder — no eye has seen him, no ear has heard him. The secret is his own, and it is safe! 
