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"I remember a very curious essay by a French writer about your countrymen: he contended that they were characterized by a savage stoicism through their contact with the Indians." "Nonsense, Henshaw! There hasn't been an Indian near South Bradfield for two hundred years. And besides that, am I stoical?"
Goodlow came in during the evening, with two or three unmarried ladies of the village, and he kept them from falling into the frozen silence which habitually expresses social enjoyment in South Bradfield when strangers are present. He talked about the prospects of Italian advancement to an equal state of intellectual and moral perfection with rural New England, while Mr.
Man, if you could only see it, there's a fringe of squinting millionaires sitting ten deep round the whole continent with their money in their hands waiting for an oculist. Eh, Munro, what? By Crums, I'll come back and I'll buy Bradfield, and I'll give it away as a tip to a waiter." "You propose to settle in some large city, then?" "City! What use would a city be to me?
I was followed by several, who plied me with questions, and were told that I was off to Bradfield to hurry up part of the cinema outfit. It sounded lame enough, for that cinema outfit was already past praying for. We reached the road and against a stone wall stood several bicycles. I selected one and prepared to mount. 'That's Mr Emmott's machine, said one boy sharply.
She was averse to my joining them in Bradfield, and it was only by my sudden movement at the end that I escaped a regular prohibition. I was compelled to answer that they had not.
The Bradfield property had been settled for life on his wife, who had brought her husband some fortune, and to the manor-house she retired to economize. Edited by M. Betham Edwards.
"Oh, no!" she answered quickly. Of course not, Staniford thought; nothing could be worse than going back to South Bradfield. "I keep thinking about it," she added. "You say Venice is such a very strange place. Is it any use my having seen Messina?" "Oh, all Italian cities have something in common." "I presume," she went on, "that after I get there everything will become natural.
She waited tranquilly a while before she said, "My father used to talk about Italy to me when I was little. He wanted to go. My mother said afterwards after she had come home with me to South Bradfield that she always believed he would have lived if he had gone there. He had consumption." "Oh!" said Staniford softly.
Seymour says please would you mind letting the doctor come to his house at once because Linton is ill." "What!" exclaimed the doctor. "What's the matter with him?" "Please, sir, I believe it's buckwheat cakes." "What! And here's another of them!" A second small figure had appeared in the doorway. "Sir, please, sir," said the newcomer, "Mr. Bradfield says may the doctor "
"Oh! Then you like walking at sea better than you do on shore?" "It isn't the custom, much. If there were any one else, I should have liked it there. But it's rather dull, going by yourself." "Yes, I understand how that is," said Staniford, dropping his teasing tone. "It's stupid. And I suppose it's pretty lonesome at South Bradfield every way." "It is, winters," admitted Lydia.
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