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If my companion were any one else, I should grasp him. We are only a mile and a half from our haven now; the turn I dread is nearing. "Are you frightened?" asks Musgrave, in a pause of the storm. "Horribly!" I answer. I have forgotten Brindley Wood have forgotten all the mischief he has done. I recollect only that he is human, and that we are sharing what seems to me a great and common peril.
You would fail even as an actress, if you tried that, when you found out that the singing was out of the question." Mildred was impressed. Perhaps she would have been more impressed had she not seen Keith and Mrs. Brindley in the taxi, Keith talking earnestly and Mrs. Brindley listening as if to an oracle. Said she: "Perhaps I'll adopt some of the suggestions." Cyrilla shook her head.
Even when I bounced off one of them to a lower step, he showed by no sign that the fact of my existence had reached his consciousness simply bore irresistibly downwards. The crowd was absolutely silent. At last I gained the entrance hall. 'It's closing-time for the reading room, said Mr Brindley. 'I'm glad I survived it, I said.
They proceeded with Brahms. 'He ran with you all the way to the station, didn't he? Mrs Brindley suggested to Mrs Colclough. 'I should just say he did! Mrs Colclough concurred. 'He wanted to get warm, and then he was awfully afraid lest we should miss it. 'I thought you were on the lake practically all night! I exclaimed. 'All night! Well, I don't know what you call all night.
But the discovery that she was clearly in the wrong, that she had invited the disguised lecture, only aggravated her sense of resentment against Mrs. Brindley. She spent the rest of the afternoon in sorting and packing her belongings and in crying. She came upon the paper Donald Keith had left.
This time it's the Hortulus Animoe. Do you know what it is? I don't. 'No, I said, and the prestige of the British Museum trembled. Then I had a vague recollection. 'There's an illuminated manuscript of that name in the Imperial Library of Vienna, isn't there? 'You've got it in one, said Mr Brindley. 'Wife, pass those walnuts. 'You aren't by any chance buying it? I laughed. 'No, he said.
Indeed, the mass of biological facts has been so greatly increased, and the range of biological speculation has been so vastly widened, by the researches of the geologist and paleontologist, that it is to be feared there are naturalists in existence who look upon geology as Brindley regarded rivers.
They seem to have thought quite a lot of him in London, then? 'Oh, rather! I said. 'I suppose your sister knew him pretty well? 'Annie? I don't know. She knew him. I distinctly observed a certain self-consciousness in Mrs Colclough as she made this reply. Mrs Brindley had risen and with wifely attentiveness was turning over the music page for her husband.
"No, don't, Mr. Bryany!" said Brindley. "Don't go to extremes!" "Personally, I don't mind looking at the Five Towns," said Edward Henry. "What of it?" "Well, did you ever see such people for looking twice at a five-pound note?" Edward Henry most certainly did not like this aspersion on his native district. He gazed in silence at Mr.
Long ago, in the days of canal formations, Brindley was consulted about a canal; afterwards, in 1812, a tramroad was surveyed by Rennie; and eventually, in 1817, a railway was projected from Darlington to Stockton-on-Tees. Of this railway Edward Pease was the projector.
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