Her father composed himself to sleep sleep after dinner dinner , as usual , and she had then only to sit sit and think think of what she had lost lose .

The tall pines lost lose their slimness and stood in wide blurred blotches all across the way , and a great shadowy bird arose arise , wheeled wheel and melted melt , murmuring murmur , into the black-green sky .

It was a curious , and , as some people thought , an ominous fact , that , very soon after the workmen began their operations operation , the spring of water , above mentioned , entirely lost lose the deliciousness of its pristine quality .

CHAPTER I I TAKE A COUNTRY HOUSE This is the story of how a middle-aged spinster lost lose her mind , deserted desert her domestic gods in the city , took take a furnished house for the summer out of town , and found find herself involved in one of those mysterious crimes that keep our newspapers and detective agencies happy and prosperous .

“ They have lost lose the scent , ” said say the old horse ; “ perhaps the hare will get off . ”

She might have looked her thanks to Gabriel on a minute scale , but she did not speak them ; more probably she felt none , for in gaining gain her a passage he had lost lose her her point , and we know how women take a favour of that kind .

_ Chapter I _ Miss Marjoribanks lost lose her mother when she was only fifteen , and when , to add to the misfortune , she was absent absent at school , and could not have it in her power to soothe her dear mamma 's last moments , as she herself said say .

" I 've lost lose the best missus as ever was , and I should n't mind going after her .

Precisely such had the paragraph originally stood from the printer 's hands ; but Sir Walter had improved improve it by adding add , for the information of himself and his family , these words , after the date of Mary 's birth birth -- " Married marry , December 16 , 1810 , Charles , son and heir of Charles Musgrove , Esq. of Uppercross , in the county of Somerset , " and by inserting insert most accurately the day of the month on which he had lost lose his wife .