Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...report is going the rounds of the press that Chin Tah Fay, a Chinese student, was turned out of the house in which he boarded because his boarding mistress thought he had a "bad eye." This suspicion proved to have been well founded, for news comes from China that, on his return home, he wantonly murdered his father, and was beheaded...
...suspicion: for his daughter's death...
Kineo, as a boy, grew up with more than usual Indian taciturnity, and with ever-increasing gloominess of disposition. His mother, Maquaso, watched the development of these characteristics with anxiety. He gave so little heed to her solicitude that when she suddenly disappeared, suspicion at once fell upon him, and he was excluded from the councils of his tribe. He departed, and encamped on a neighboring mountain. The rest of the story is told in the lines which follow...
...Truly, thought, like fear and suspicion, is essentially communicable...
...other. I could not help be impressed with the charm of his manner, for he reminded me very distinctly of his sister. Surely there was no dark hidden mystery in this man's life! What was I but a raving lunatic, to suspect him? Yet - yet! There was the suspicion, and it would not vanish...