But she had failed to learn of the Disproval of Dick Beckworth's reported death.
"The Heart of Canyon Pass"
Thomas K. Holmes
The fact of Mallard's being here at this hour seemed all but a Disproval of what Miriam had hinted, and when he looked up again at the rugged, saturnine, energetic countenance, and met the calmly austere eyes, he felt how improbable it was that this man should be anything to Cecily save a conscientious friend.
"The Emancipated"
George Gissing