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"Read between the lines" Quotes from Famous Books

... that little girl in there can look! And never more so than when she allows her temper to overcome her. She had been angry just now. Yes. But he can read between the lines; angry—naturally that he has not come to the point—declared himself—proposed as the saying is. Well, puffing complacently at his cigar, she must wait—she must wait—if the appointment comes off, if Sir Alexander stands to him, she has a very good chance, but ...

— April's Lady - A Novel • Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

... Olive was delicate; she could not travel; Mat could not leave her to come himself, and so on. Tom never doubted these excuses; he even made his little joke about the lad becoming a family man; but Susan, who was sharper than her husband, read between the lines. Mat was ashamed of bringing the Dean's niece down to see the shop; it was possible, but here Susan almost shuddered at the awfulness of the thought, that he might not have told his wife ...

— Lover or Friend • Rosa Nouchette Carey

... of mind which can be read between the lines in George Sand's letters to Flaubert is serenity, and this is also the characteristic of her work during the last period of her life. Her "last style" is that of Jean de la Rocke, published in 1860. A young nobleman, Jean de la Roche, loses his heart to ...

— George Sand, Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings • Rene Doumic

... the Higher Command is intended by anything that has been written. If such can be read between the lines, it is unintentional and a ...

— Q.6.a and Other places - Recollections of 1916, 1917 and 1918 • Francis Buckley

... baited; it would hardly have deceived the most guileless and unsuspecting. Harold Purling at a glance could read between the lines; he could trace effect to cause, and readily understood why his mother was so anxious ...

— The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood • Arthur Griffiths

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