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Do tell us something about him." "I am afraid I cannot make him as interesting to you as he was to me," answered Baird, with his light air again. "He does not look very interesting," said Mrs. Stornaway. "I never saw anyone so sallow; I can't understand Annie liking him." "He is interesting," responded Baird. "Annie took one of her fancies to him, and I took something more than a fancy.
The long shanks were curved inward so that in walking their ends clashed. He pointed this out to Baird, who was amazed at the discovery. "Well, well, that's so! They're bound to interfere. I never knew that about hidalgo spurs before." "We might straighten them," suggested the actor. "No, no," Baird insisted, "I wouldn't dare try that. They cost too much money, and it might break 'em.
Baird and Edith Irwin were not, however, among those who thronged round Heideck and, in a hundred confused questions, hoped to obtain from the dust-begrimed man, who had evidently come from the battlefield, news as to how matters stood. Heideck said nothing more than that the army was retreating, bravely fighting the while.
As they rode on, James was entirely occupied with the lady, and Malcolm was a good deal left to himself; for, though the party was numerous, he knew no one except the Duke of Bedford, who was riding with the King and Lord Warwick, in deep consultation, while Sir Nigel Baird, Lord Marmion, and the rest were in the rear.
Rutherford, of Hamlin County, who is a monument of simplicity in himself, is heart and soul in the thing and Farquhar feels convinced by it. Farquhar is one of the men who are not mixed up with jobs. Milner himself is beginning to give the matter a glance now and then, though he has not committed himself; and now the Reverend John Baird, the hero of the platform, is taking it up."
One evening in the following week, after Edith had left town, Roger had Bruce to dine at his club, a pleasant old building on Madison Square, where comfortably all by themselves they could discuss Baird's chances. "A. Baird and I have been chums," said Bruce, "ever since we were in college. Take it from me I know his brand. And he isn't the kind to be pushed." "Who wants to push him?"
We came here partly because the climate was mild, and also because I had been here before and knew about the place; and it was far enough from Miss Carpenter's home to make it unlikely she would be recognized. We took no one into our confidence except Dr. Baird, and it was generally understood that we were travelling somewhere for Marion's health.
Slowly, because Merton Gill at first proved to be diffident at the crisis. For three rehearsals the muscular arm of Miss Montague had most of the clenching to do. He believed he was being rough and masterful, but Baird wished a greater show of violence.
Is there any labour or any pang borne for others that will wipe out the stain from my soul?" John Baird looked at him as he had looked before. His usual ready flow of speech, his rapidity of thought, his knowledge of men and their necessities seemed all to have deserted him. "I " he stammered, "I am not fit not fit "
Gamaliel Ives, who talked literature with Cynthia; and Lucy Baird, his wife, who had taken Cynthia under her wing. I wish I had time to write about Lucy Baird. And Mr. Jonathan Hill came his mortgage not having been foreclosed, after all.
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