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The Shadow (Classic Reprint)

by Arthur Stringer

2019-04-17 00:32:15

The woman looped up her veil, festooning it about the undulatory roll of her hat brim. Blake continued his solemnly preoccupied study of the desk top. “You sent for me,” the woman finally said. It was more a reminder than a question. And the v ... Read more
The woman looped up her veil, festooning it about the undulatory roll of her hat brim. Blake continued his solemnly preoccupied study of the desk top. “You sent for me,” the woman finally said. It was more a reminder than a question. And the voice, for all its quietness, carried no sense of timidity. The woman’s pale face, where the undulating hat brim left the shadowy eyes still more shadowy, seemed fortified with a calm sense of power. It was something more than a dormant consciousness of beauty, though the knowledge that men would turn back to a face so wistful as hers, and their judgment could be dulled by a smile so narcotizing, had not a little to do with the woman’s achieved serenity. There was nothing outwardly sinister about her. This fact had always left her doubly dangerous as a law-breaker. Less

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File size194.909 KB
Print pages320
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780483613362,
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Arthur Stringer
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Arthur Stringer (February 26, 1874 – September 13, 1950) was a Canadian novelist, screenwriter, and poet who later moved to the United States.Stringer was born in Chatham, Ontario.[1] In 1884 the fa...

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