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If I am disturbing you " Mrs. Brindley hastened to assure her that her visit was quite convenient. "I must have someone to share the expense of this apartment with me, and I want the matter settled. Mr. Jennings has explained about you to me, and now that I've seen you " here she smiled charmingly "I am ready to say that it is for you to say." Mildred did not know how to begin. She looked at Mrs.
What seemed to me singular was that the relations which had existed between Miss Annie Brett and Simon Fuge appeared to have no interest whatever for Mr Brindley. He had not even referred to them. 'You were just beginning to draw her out, I ventured. 'No, he replied; 'I thought I'd just see what she'd say. No one ever did draw that woman out.
We were heartily welcomed in Brindisi by the English colony, and at the consul's office learned that the submarine was an Austrian, and that the cruiser had made the sweep to chase it away. Jo, Miss Brindley, and Jan went to Rome, where they ere feasted by more English, while at Milan where the rest of the party spent the night a whole theatre stood and cheered them when they came in.
It is 560 feet in length, with an open waterway of 389 feet, and its total width of carriageway and footpath is 60 feet, or wider, at the time it was built, than any river bridge in the kingdom. Like most previous engineers of eminence like Perry, Brindley, Smeaton, and Rennie Mr. Telford was in the course of his life extensively employed in the drainage of the Fen districts.
"Now, suppose You don't mind my talking about this?" "What I want," replied he. "I can't talk or think anything but her." "Now, suppose she shouldn't make a hit. Suppose she should fail should not develop reliable voice enough?" Stanley looked frightened. "But she can't fail," he cried with over-energy. "There's no question about her voice." "I understand," Mrs. Brindley hastened to say.
Brindley of the older New York, could neither understand nor believe in the people of the new and real New York whom it molds for better or for worse so rapidly and even remolds again and again. But Mildred was able to satisfy her that the house was at least not suspicious. "It doesn't matter where you're going," said Mrs. Brindley. "It's that you are going. I can't bear giving you up.
When Brindley, the second-best baker and confectioner, made an offer for Daniel's business as a going concern, he was indignant at first. He would not listen to Daniel's plaintive insistence that he would never care to be seen in Bursley again. He pooh-poohed it. He protested furiously that the whole town was seething with sympathy for Daniel; and this was true.
I gave my impression candidly, because I had already judged Mr Brindley to be the rare and precious individual who is worthy of the high honour of frankness. 'Do you think so? he demanded quickly. I had shocked him, that was clear. His tone was unmistakable; it indicated an instinctive, involuntary protest. But he recovered himself in a flash. 'That's jealousy, he laughed.
About an hour later he picked up my little bag, and said that he should accompany me to the little station in the midst of the desert of cinders and broken crockery, and even see me as far as Knype, where I had to take the London express. No, there are no half-measures in the Five Towns. Mrs Brindley stood on her doorstep, with her eldest infant on her shoulders, and waved us off.
Its import was to the effect that women are women. We descended, Mr Brindley still in his knickerbockers. 'This way, he said, drawing aside a portiere. Mrs Brindley, as we entered the room, was trotting a male infant round and round a table charged with everything digestible and indigestible. She handed the child, who was in its nightdress, to a maid. 'Say good night to father.
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