98 examples of pigot in sentences

Then I attempted to assume a mask of indifference, for M. Pigot was obviously annoyed at my presence, and I feared for a moment that his Gallic suavity would be strained to breaking.

" "What I have to tell you, sir," began M. Pigot, in a voice as hard as steel and cold as ice, "has, understand well, to be told in confidence.

I saw Pigot's eyes flame and his face flush with anger, for Grady's tone was almost insulting.

"That theft," continued M. Pigot, "was accomplished in a manner at once so bold and so unique that we were certain it could be the work of but a single mana rascal named Crochard, who calls himself also 'The Invincible'a rascal who has given us very great trouble, but whom we have never been able to convict.

" M. Pigot paused and passed his hand across his forehead.

"We were at a loss to understand Crochard's connection with Drouet," M. Pigot continued.

"Our theory," replied M. Pigot, without the slightest acceleration of speech, "is that the Michaelovitch diamonds are concealed in this cabinet.

"Three," and Pigot checked them off upon his fingers.

How could it have killed Drouet and Mr. Vantine?" "Very simply," said M. Pigot, coldly.

M. Pigot hesitated an instantany man would have hesitated before that awful risk!then, catching the handle firmly with his armoured hand, he drew it quickly out.

CHAPTER XXV THE MICHAELOVITCH DIAMONDS M. Pigot, cool and imperturbable, held out to us, with a little smile, a hand which showed not a quiver of emotionhis gauntleted hand; and I saw that, on the back of it, were two tiny depressions.

M. Pigot paused, his head bent in thought; and I seemed to be gazing with him down long avenues of crime, extending far into the pastdismal avenues like those of Père Lachaise, where tombs elbowed each other; where, at every step, one came face to face with a mystery, a secret, or a tragedy.

Some such vision as this, I say, passed before my eyes, and I had a feeling that M. Pigot shared in it; but, after an instant, he turned back to the cabinet.

"There are the fangs," said M. Pigot.

"You will observe its ingenuity," said M. Pigot.

M. Pigot removed the first of these, unrolled it and spread it out upon the desk, and instantly we caught the glitter of diamonds diamonds so large, so brilliant, so faultlessly white that I drew a deep breath of admiration.

Even M. Pigot, evidently as he prided himself upon his imperturbability, could not look upon those gems wholly unmoved; a slow colour crept into his cheeks as he gazed down at them, and he picked up one or two of the larger ones to admire them more closely.

"Perhaps you have stopped to admire the Mazarin diamond in the galérie d'Apollon at the Louvre," said M. Pigot.

"Can we find a box of safe-deposit at this hour of the night?" asked M. Pigot, glancing at his watch.

" Simmonds and Pigot rolled up the packets carefully and placed them in the valise, while I sat watching them in a kind of daze.

"Oh, he did," said M. Pigot.

" The thought flashed through my mind that doubtless M. Pigot was in the way of receiving a handsome present.

" The same thought was in my own mind, for Crochard must have learned of M. Pigot's arrival; and I could scarcely imagine that he would sit quietly by and permit the jewels to be taken away from himto say nothing of his chagrin over his unfulfilled boast to Godfrey.

" "I thank you, sir," replied M. Pigot, gravely.

"There were certain details," I added, "which I supposed were known to no one except myself and two other personsand yet M. Pigot knew them.

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