Anna Katharine Green

Name: A Strange Disappearance — Chapter XVI. The Mark of the Red Cross
Author: Anna Katharine Green

A Strange Disappearance — Chapter XVI. The Mark of the Red Cross (1880)

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“A Strange Disappearance — Chapter XVI. The Mark of the Red Cross”, published in 1880, is a work by Anna Katharine Green. It explores elements such as Schoenmakers, hall and growl.

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Anna Katharine Green, A Strange Disappearance — Chapter XVI. The Mark of the Red Cross (1880)

“ Indeed it was my desire to acquaint them as fully and as soon as possible with the fact of their having a neighbor: a weak-eyed half-alive innocent to be sure, but yet a neighbor who would keep his door open night and day--for the warmth of the hall of course--and who with the fretful habit of an old man who had once been a gentleman and a beau, went rambling about through the hall speaking to those he met and expecting a civil word in return. ”

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Anna Katharine Green, A Strange Disappearance — Chapter XVI. The Mark of the Red Cross (1880)

“ He gave a deep growl and turned away. "If there was," said he, "you know what would happen." And unheeding the wild keen shudder that seized her at the word, making her insensible for the moment to all and everything about her, he laid one heavy hand upon her slight shoulder and led her from the room.
I waited no longer than was necessary to carry my feeble and faltering steps appropriately down the stairs, to reach the floor below and gain the landlady's presence.
"Do you go up," said I, "and sit on those stairs till I come back. ”

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Anna Katharine Green, A Strange Disappearance — Chapter XVI. The Mark of the Red Cross (1880)

“ I have not received an inkling of light upon the matter since I parted from you at Mr. Blake's house. By the way I saw that gentleman this morning and I tell you we will find him a grateful man if this affair can be resolved satisfactorily."
"That is good," said I," gratitude is what we want." Then shortly, "Perhaps it is no more than our duty to let him know that his wife is safe and under my eye; though I would by no means advocate his knowing just how near him she is, till the moment comes when he is wanted, or we shall have a lover's impetuosity to deal with as well as all the rest." ”

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Anna Katharine Green, A Strange Disappearance — Chapter XVI. The Mark of the Red Cross (1880)

“ As she stood there before me in her dark worsted dress and coarse shawl, with her locks simply braided and her whole person undignified by art and ungraced by ornament, she seemed just by the power of her expression and the witchery of her manner, the loveliest woman I had ever beheld. ”

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Anna Katharine Green, A Strange Disappearance — Chapter XVI. The Mark of the Red Cross (1880)

“ It was enough to drive her crazy; yet the money, the money--
"Yes," said I, "I know; and the money ought to make you overlook all the small disagreeablenesses you mention. What is a landlady without patience." ”

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Anna Katharine Green, A Strange Disappearance — Chapter XVI. The Mark of the Red Cross (1880)

“ Failure now would break my heart."
"But you won't fail," exclaimed he. "I myself am resolved to see you through this matter with credit."
And in this assurance I returned to my lodgings where I found the landlady sitting where I had left her, darning her twenty-third sock.
"I have to mend for a dozen men and three boys," said she, "and the boys are the worst by a heap sight. Look at that, will you," holding up a darn with a bit of stocking attached. ”

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Anna Katharine Green, A Strange Disappearance — Chapter XVI. The Mark of the Red Cross (1880)

“ I never let even small things pass without some notice. Stooping, then, for what I had thus inadvertently crushed, I carried it to where a single gas jet turned down very low, made a partial light in the long hall, and examining it, found it to be a piece of red chalk. ”

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Anna Katharine Green, A Strange Disappearance — Chapter XVI. The Mark of the Red Cross (1880)

“ She threw back the shawl which she had held drawn tightly over her head, and advanced with an easy gliding step close to my side. "You do not disturb me, but my father is--is, well a trifle cross sometimes, and if he should speak up a little harsh now and then, you must not mind. I am sorry you are so ill."
What is there in some women's look, some women's touch that more than all beauty goes to the heart and subdues it. ”

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Anna Katharine Green, A Strange Disappearance — Chapter XVI. The Mark of the Red Cross (1880)

“ Blake, not only from the consequences of their despair, but from the publicity and scandal attendant upon the open arrest of two heavily armed men. Strategy, therefore, rather than force was to be employed, and strategy to be successful must be founded upon the most thorough knowledge of the matter with which one has to deal. ”

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Anna Katharine Green, A Strange Disappearance — Chapter XVI. The Mark of the Red Cross (1880)

“ What are you two up to?" And we heard the rough clatter of advancing steps.
"Go," said she; "you are weak and old; and when you come back, try and not cough." And she gave me a gentle push towards the door. ”

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