He slowly unfolded the document, and perused the heading of it; then he refolded it, and placed it on the table, and stood there with his hand upon it.
"This," said he, "is the paper for which I am looking.

Souchey, at any rate, is not a liar.
"How came it there ?" said Nina, almost screaming in her agony.
"That I know not; but Souchey is not a liar; nor were your aunt and her servant liars in telling me that I should find it in your hands." "Anton," she said, "as the Lord made me, I knew not of it;" and she fell on her knees before his feet.
He looked down upon her, scanning every feature of her face and every gesture of her body with hard inquiring eyes.

He did not stoop to raise her, nor, at the moment, did he say a word to comfort her.

"And you think that I stole it and put it there ?" she said.

She did not quail before his eyes, but seemed, though kneeling before him, to look up at him as though she would defy him.