The Leavenworth Case

Name: The Leavenworth Case
Author: Anna Katharine Green

by Anna Katharine Green

Pages: about 401
Category: Literature & Fiction
Language: English
Reading time: 7.4 h at 250 wpm

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“I did not go, but stood watching the firelight flicker on her black dress” Frontispiece
“What was my astonishment to come upon Miss Eleanore Leavenworth standing at the side of her uncle’s bed, with his pistol in her hand” 48
“Pausing only long enough on the threshold to compose myself for the interview, I lifted my hand to knock” 50
“Her whole appearance was so startling, so extraordinary, that I held my breath in surprise” 52
“She . . . was fumbling with the waist of her dress in a way to convince me she had something concealed there which she was anxious to dispose of” 88
“He pushed me upwards. ‘Go back!’ he whispered, . . . ‘Go back!’” 164
“I could not prevent a feeling of sickly apprehension from seizing me as I turned towards the silent figure stretched so near” 276
“I crawled up on to the ledge of the slanting roof last night . . . and . . . saw her moving round the room” 280
“At the sight of his face, the man in our arms quivered, shrieked, and gave one bound that would have overturned Mr. Clavering, . . . had not Mr. Gryce interposed” 374
I had been a junior partner in the firm of Veeley, Carr & Raymond, attorneys and counsellors at law, for about a year, when one morning, in the temporary absence of both Mr. Veeley and Mr. Carr, there came into our office a young man whose whole appearance was so indicative of haste and agitation that I involuntarily rose at his approach and impetuously inquired:
“What is the matter? You have no bad news to tell, I hope.”
“No,” I replied; “he was unexpectedly called away this morning to Washington; cannot be home before to-morrow; but if you will make your business known to me----”

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The Leavenworth Case

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