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"Cut it!" said Mr Goble tersely. "Cut the speech, Mr Goble?" queried the obsequious assistant stage-director. "Yes. Cut it. It don't mean nothing!" Down the aisle, springing from a seat at the back, shimmered Mr Pilkington, wounded to the quick. "Mr Goble! Mr Goble!" "Well?" "That is the best epigram in the play." "The best what?" "Epigram. The best epigram in the play." Mr.
If Faynie had but read the papers she would have known what was transpiring, but, alas! she did not and was utterly unaware of the strange turn of fortune's wheel which had occurred in the life of the young assistant cashier to whom she had given the wealth of her love, when he was poor.
Letters would actually reach him from England solemnly addressed to Bloater Park. Life at this time if we except the 1887 operations against Dinizulu in Africa, when B.-P. was Assistant Military Secretary, and commanded a column in attack was for the most part humdrum, and only enlivened by theatricals and shooting expeditions.
"I shouldn't wonder if that housekeeper of his comes out with a pail of paint and does 'em every morning before breakfast," Fanny said to herself as she rang the bell. Usually it was that sparse and spectacled person herself who opened the parish house door, but to-day Fanny's ring was answered by Father Casey, parish assistant.
Upon the completion of his course in 1888 he was ordained to the Gospel ministry and for the next four years rendered faithful service as the assistant of his pastor in Christ Church. Few that heard him would have suspected his blindness. His remarkable memory enabled him in conducting the Service to use the Bible and the Liturgy as though he could see.
Every face expressed sympathy, approval, pity, and at last Coello said: "Remain here, Navarrete. The king longs for Moor, and you will be as safe with us, as if you were in Abraham's lap. We have plenty for you to do. You come to me as opportunely, as if you had dropped from the skies. I was just going to write to Venice for an assistant. Holy Jacob!
Blandureau's parents had consented to her marriage with Joseph Blondet upon one condition the penniless and briefless barrister must be an assistant judge. So, with the desire of fitting his son to fill the position, old M. Blondet racked his brains to hammer the law into his son's head by dint of lessons, so as to make a cut-and-dried lawyer of him.
It was not much, but it was better than nothing it was the place of assistant editor of his paper. For months following, the figure of Edgar Poe was a familiar one in the office of the Evening Mirror.
He is now a Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General, and it was he who was the first to hoist the Flag over Santiago." The General having courteously invited me to call on him, soon after bade me good-bye. It was a chance meeting, but full of interest, especially under the circumstances. Here was the hero who had captured the cannon and who had won laurels for himself and for his country.
How different from the sanguine and joyous mien that he had assumed for Georgiana's encouragement! "Carefully now, Aminadab; carefully, thou human machine; carefully, thou man of clay!" muttered Aylmer, more to himself than his assistant. "Now, if there be a thought too much or too little, it is all over." "Ho! ho!" mumbled Aminadab. "Look, master! look!"
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