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One morning, soon after breakfast, a little group was gathered round Carton's desk in the big school-room, discussing the value of some foreign stamps, when a small boy came up to them, saying, "Is Trevanock here? Well, Acton wants you now at once in his study." "Hullo," said Carton, looking up from the sheet of specimens in front of him "hullo, Diggy! What have you been up to?"

And by and by dinner come up, and then to my sport again, but still honest; and then took coach and up and down in the country toward Acton, and then toward Chelsy, and so to Westminster, and there set her down where I took her up, with mighty pleasure in her company, and so I by coach home, and thence to Bow, with all the haste I could, to my Lady Pooly's, where my wife was with Mr.

"What is Shreckenstein?" asked Acton. "It is a great castle, the summer residence of the Reigning Prince." "Have you ever lived there?" "I have stayed there," said the Baroness. Acton was silent; he looked a while at the uncastled landscape before him. "It is the first time you have ever asked me about Silberstadt," she said.

He drove there and back in his own buggy, and when he reached the top overlooking the valley, with his bride, he stopped his horse, and pointed with his whip. 'There, he said, 'as far as the sky is blue, it's all ours! I thought that was fine." "Fine?" I couldn't help bursting out; "it's a stroke of poetry." Minver cut in: "The thrifty Acton making a note of it for future use in literature."

Could Acton possibly have said anything definite to start this unusual train of thought, the grandmother speculated. With Leslie so felicitously married, she would have felt ready for her nunc dimittis. She watched Leslie expectantly.

Acton was, in fact, very judicious and something more beside; and indeed it must be claimed for Mr.

"But I don't want to." "But I say you must!" "Oh! please, Acton, I really can't, I " "Shut up! Look here, some one's got to go down that slide on skates, so just put 'em on." It was at this moment that Diggory Trevanock stepped forward, and remarked in a casual manner that if Mugford didn't wish to do it, but would lend him the skates, he himself would go down the slide.

I am not sure of that, Roger, it may be so sometimes; but, in my judgment, money has unmade more men than made them. "How now, Acton, is not this drain dug yet! You have been about it much too long, sir; I shall fine you for this." "Please you, Muster Jennings, I've stuck to it pretty tightly too, barring that I make to-day three-quarters, being late: but it's heavy clay, you see, Mr.

But the other spoke quickly. "I beg your pardon, Mr. Acton, I did not mean that for you." The horseman dropped his hands again to the saddle horn, and resumed his lounging posture, thus tacitly accepting the apology. "You have the advantage of me," he said. The stranger laughed. "Everyone knows that 'Wild Horse Phil' of the Cross-Triangle Ranch won the bronco-riding championship yesterday.

His intellect has the range of an Acton, his forthrightness is the match of Dr. Johnson's, and his wit, less biting though little less courageous than Voltaire's, has the illuminating quality, if not the divine playfulness, of the wit of Socrates. But he lacks that profound sympathy with the human race which gives to moral decisiveness the creative energy of the great fighter.