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Pomfret, who had received many clippings and pamphlets, had written him weekly letters of a nature spurring to his ambition, which incidentally contained many references to Alice's interest in his career. And Mr.
"Any one can see that," continued Elma Lewis; "but I don't think she is quite so bad as you paint her, Alice." Alice's private opinion of Elma was that she was a little toad, and she now managed to extricate herself from the smaller girl's clasp. "I shall never like her," she said. "There is no good in your praising her to me. If you mean to be her friend you must do so from a double motive."
Lieutenant Beverley is amply able to take care of himself. And let me tell you, if you expect a good man to have great confidence in you, stay home and let him hunt you up instead of you hunting him. A man likes that better." It would be impossible to describe Alice's feelings, as they just then rose like a whirling storm in her heart.
Alice's home was a terrace house in a town. The House at B was very large and somewhat lonely. It is, however, less than 200 yards from a road along the Tay, that river running parallel to its front to the southward of it.
I staggered when I got into the passage, but the cool air from some open window revived me, and I crept on, stopping at Alice's door to listen. I heard a child murmur in its sleep. He could not be there. The doors of all the chambers were locked, and I must go downstairs.
He recalled his young hero-worship for his brilliant kinsman; the hour when he had identified the battered form on the shore of the Donegal Lough; the sight of Alice's young anguish; and all the subsequent effort on his part, for Christ's sake, for Neville's sake, to help and shield a woman and child, effort from which his own soul had learnt so much.
Peggy could seldom be induced to play dolls. She ran up the steps and made a dash for Clara. Clara, in a lilac frock, was sitting primly on one of the wooden chairs with which the platform was furnished. Her hair was a darker brown than Alice's, and her face had the pallor of the city child who has lived indoors all winter.
Leslie well-nigh lost all patience; and the banker, to his own surprise, was again called in. We have said that he was an experienced and skilful adviser, which implies the faculty of persuasion. He soon saw the handle by which Alice's obstinacy might always be moved her little girl's welfare.
I'd know it anywhere by the bigness of the little toe. How can she have come up here?" "I say, lad, hist!" said Bumpus, in a hoarse whisper, "here's another fut that don't belong to what's her name Puppy, did ye say?" "Why, it's Alice's," whispered the boy, his face becoming instantly grave, while an unwonted expression of anxiety crossed it, "and here's that of a savage beside it.
Alice's husband was a fool, impulsive and vain; and, despite introductions, no congregation in Australia could be persuaded to listen to his version of the gospel; Alice gave birth to more children than bad sermons could keep alive, and soon the old man at Bursley was regularly sending remittances to her.
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