Word: disturbance
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...best to unlock the door of this secret mystery; but my wildest conjectures resulted in no inkling of the truth. Indeed, I have heard it whispered that there were those who remotely connected ME with his disappearance; but the rumor did not reach my ears to disturb me then. Besides, I do not doubt but my haggard and harassed appearance during these terrible days may not unjustly have given rise to some such indistinct suspicion. Be that as it may, here is the fact. I never saw Stephen Maymore again...
...great annoyance which could be easily removed. It is extremely desirable that visitors should be excluded from the reading-room. It is difficult enough to study there at any time; the continual passing to and fro renders connected study almost impossible. Now, if visitors were excluded, this disturbance would be greatly lessened. There is nothing remarkable to be seen in the reading-room, and any survey which is necessary can be obtained through the glass doors or from the exhibition room above. Almost every visitor tramps through the reading-room, but searcely one in ten ascends to the exhibition room...