But his reading of her horoscope had been incomplete, or else he had failedto understand the answers.
His life had been an unceasing effort to capture happiness, and he had failed because he had sought happiness from without instead of seeking it from within.
Linforth, though he had failed to renew his old comradeship with Shere Ali, had not altogether failed.
He must go back to Peshawur and tell Ralston that he had failed.
Linforth had done his best to hinder it, as Ralston had bidden him to do, but he had failed, and the Road would go on to the foot of the Hindu Kush.
The voice recalled to my recollections what his features, altered by time and years, had failed to do.
I, having heard that in days long past some such names had failed in Cork for a large amount.
For some time past the ammunition of the corps that held it had failed, and a dropping irregular musketry was the only reply to the incessant rattle of the enemy.
Dudley Venner prayed that night that he might be forgiven, if he had failed in any act of duty or kindness to this unfortunate child of his, now freed from all the woes born with her and so long poisoning her soul.
He had failed as yet in getting any positive evidence that there was any relation between Elsie and the schoolmaster other than such as might exist unsuspected and unblamed between a teacher and his pupil.
But he had failed in the great enterprise he had undertaken.
That our needle-sharp eyes, concentrated for an hour on her face, had failed to detect the master who was so painfully familiar to us seemed like a miracle.
What I had failed to know was his close relationship to the family whose name for the last two weeks had been in every mouth.
The conclusion he spoke of had failed to strike me.
Its substance was that he had failed to put a stop effectually to the immemorial custom in his court of receiving presents from suitors, but that he had never deviated from justice in his decrees.
Gordon was a possible suspect I had failed to take even halfway seriously.
After you left I remembered that there was one point of investigation I had failed to cover--Miss Lamar's home here in the city.
When I was through I had failed to identify a single call that might have been Werner's.
Levin was utterly at a loss to comprehend or recall what it was he had disliked in Sviazhsky, what he had failed to find in him.
Then it was that Sergeant Corney, minded as I now believe only to change the subject of conversation, asked Master Sitz why it was we had failed to see him during the march from Cherry Valley to the Indian village.
The last resource left to our fair friends was to rouse the dormant interest of the men, and to trust to the confidential intercourse of the smoking-room for the enlightenment which they had failed to obtain by other means.
The point of view which I had failed to see was put with terrible directness of expression: the conviction that I was wrong was literally forced on me.
He had failed, and the loan advanced had not been repaid, when a fit of apoplexy struck him down.
I had done my best to cheer her--and I was conscious, as we shook hands at parting, that I had failed.
The two several assaults made May 22d, on the lines of Vicksburg, had failed, by reason of the great strength of the position and the determined fighting of its garrison.
I would have been glad to put Sherman in command, to give him an opportunity to accomplish what he had failed in the December before; but there seemed no other way out of the difficulty, for he was junior to McClernand.
It was not said that it had failed to do all that had been hoped or expected from it in regard to the currency.
That all must admit that it had failed to establish or maintain a sound and uniform currency; and 4.
He felt that he had failed badly, and that his standing with his superiors in Scotland Yard was under a cloud in consequence.
Sisily had trusted him, she had come back to him, and he had failed her.
He was chagrined to think he had failed to recognize his late client's daughter, but he recalled that it was ten years since he had seen Sisily, who was then a dark-eyed little girl.
He had failed to take into consideration that a bear was an extremely difficult animal to kill, and that frequently one of them could carry many bullets in its body without seeming to be bothered at all.
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