Now, if our local friend should have any
informant on the spot, it is tolerably clear that such
informant can only be set to watch the chambers in the occupation of Mr.
Sophia Antonovna's
informant, by listening to the talk of the house, by putting this and that together, had managed to come very near to the truth of Haldin's relation to Ziemianitch.
Arthur had no choice but to say that his
informant had not become known to him through the agency of any such credentials, or indeed of any credentials at all.
Tess had not at this hour the curiosity to ask why the present Mr Clare was not made a parson like his brethren, and gradually fell asleep again, the words of her
informant coming to her along with the smell of the cheeses in the adjoining cheeseloft, and the measured dripping of the whey from the wrings downstairs.
The trooper thanks his
informant and rides slowly on, looking about him.
He asked his
informant, the butler, whether the doctor had been sent for.
It was Lieutenant Obergatz he still sought, though vainly, for at last he learned that the man had been sent upon some special mission, whether in Africa or back to Europe Tarzan's
informant either did not know or would not divulge.
Nutting had a famous foxhound named Burgoyne -- he pronounced it Bugine -- which my
informant used to borrow.
Neither you, nor I, nor my
informant, nor the man who informed him, nor the directors of the Porphyrion, are to blame for this clerk's loss of salary.
They said, "Even when he eats and sleeps there is always one on the watch near him who has strength and weapons." There was indeed always one near him, though our
informants had no conception of that watcher's strength and weapons, which were both shadowy and terrible.
At the long-house at which Barunda and Ninaka had halted, Muda Saffir learned all that had transpired, his
informants being the two Dyaks who had led Bulan and his pack into the jungle.
I had entered her presence intending to condole with her upon the wickedness of the world, and help her to abuse the vicar and his vile
informants, but now I felt positively ashamed to mention the subject, and determined not to refer to it, unless she led the way.