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But if he isn't, bring them back. I'm going to Torquay by that eleven-thirty express isn't it? 'Eleven-thirty-five, Emmeline corrected me coldly. When she returned, she said she had seen Mr. Ispenlove and given him the letter and the parcel. I had acquaintances in Torquay, but I soon discovered that the place was impossible for me.
We made a round of visits that day, but the juge de paix, who seemed to share the tastes of his great ancestor, was in the country in search of more partridges. Other friends and acquaintances we found at home; among these was a retired confectioner, who had once kept a shop in Regent Street, and had told Mademoiselle Jenny that she would be delighted to talk English with me.
'It sounds almost as if Captain Beauchamp had submitted to be Dr. Shrapnel's pupil. 'It is natural, madam, that Dr. Shrapnel should know more of political ways at present than Captain Beauchamp. 'To Captain Beauchamp's friends and relatives it appears very strange that he should have decided to contest this election so suddenly. May I inquire whether he and Dr. Shrapnel are old acquaintances?
As she never for a moment imagined that he could think her deep love for him could be in any way affected by the slight surface interest which her new acquaintances afforded her, she looked upon his jealousy of them, of which she had had indications often enough before, as a weakness merely to which he ought to have been superior; and as he said nothing himself on the subject, she also let it pass without comment on her side, but determined at the same time that she would see less of them in future, at all events while he was at home.
"I wonder if we have any mutual acquaintances?" "It's hardly likely. Since my mother died some years ago we have lived very quietly, and gone out very little." Merriman did not wish to appear inquisitive. He made a suitable reply and, turning the conversation to the country, told her of his day's ride.
Young Graye concluded that his Cytherea had forgotten him and his love. But he could not forget her. Eight years later, feeling lonely and depressed a man without relatives, with many acquaintances but no friends Ambrose Graye met a young lady of a different kind, fairly endowed with money and good gifts.
There he had found old acquaintances to protect and shield him. I was presumed to be dead and any fellow-slave would help him in his situation, he being presumed to be legally a slave of the fiscus.
They sipped their tea and chatted lightly about English acquaintances, but with frequent glances towards the hall entrance. Each was wondering which one would be first to come, Blake or Mr. Leslie. The engineer entered slowly, his face red and moist from the fierce drive of the sleet off the lake. He had come afoot.
It was a matter of every-day experience for him to meet old acquaintances who looked over him, or across the street, or in at shop-windows, to avoid recognition. And the half-patronizing, half-contemptuous nods he did receive were far worse to bear than downright cuts.
It is part of the region over-ranged by the hunting-party of Hagen's devising. The horns of the hunters are heard in the distance, Siegfried's horn-call among them, and Hagen's. Our old acquaintances, the Rhine-daughters, rise to the surface of the water. They have warning or scent that Siegfried is not far, with the Ring, their stolen gold.
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