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There are two simple meals daily, with tea and bananas at 7 A.M., and afternoon tea at 5 P.M. Mr. Maxwell is most abstemious, and is energetically at work from an early hour in the morning. There is a perpetual coming and going of Malays, and an air of business without fuss.
His talents for business, however, prostituted as they were to such infamous purposes, only rendered him a greater scourge to the unhappy tenantry over whom he was placed. As for Phil, he experienced at their hands that combined feeling of hatred and contempt with which we look upon a man who has every disposition to villany but not the ability to accomplish its purposes in a masterly manner.
I wish to see her on business of importance." "I don't like his looks," thought the maid. "Shure he talks as if he was the boss." She told Miss Stone, however, that a gentleman wished to see her, who would not tell his name. Miss Stone was in Herbert's chamber, and the boy now nearly well, quite well, in fact, but for a feeling of languor and weakness heard the message.
"The most severe I ever remember," said Mr. Taynton. "It had slipped my memory," said this incompetent agent of justice. But a little thought enabled him to ask a question that bore on the case. "He travelled then by Lewes and not by the direct route?" "Presumably. He had a season ticket via Lewes, since our business often took him there. Had he intended to travel by Hayward's Heath," said Mr.
It is not merely that they have yet to learn the elementary business of electoral organization, in which the Hindus, on the contrary, have shown great proficiency, and that they have consequently fared badly even in local bodies where their numbers ought to have secured them more adequate representation.
"Aw, you go to the devil!" snapped Mr. Cassidy, firing again. "Whoop! Got him that time!" "Where?" asked his companion, with strong suspicion. "None of yore business!" "Aw, darn it! Who spilled the water?" yelled Red, staring blankly at the overturned canteen. "Pshaw! Reckon I did, Red," apologized his friend ruefully. "Now of all the cussed luck!"
He thereupon distributed the remaining gumdrops impartially between his mouth and his trousers pocket and filled the empty jar with water, dropping his handiwork into it. Thus by gradual stages and without any sensational "closing out sales" the refreshment business was steadily going into a state of liquidation, even the lemon sticks being reduced to a liquid.
In the course of the morning's business the news of their expedition had noised abroad. Especially were they commiserated by the other runners and post-keepers.
Turner having sat and supped with me. This morning I hear that last night Sir Thomas Teddiman, poor man! did die by a thrush in his mouth: a good man, and stout and able, and much lamented; though people do make a little mirth, and say, as I believe it did in good part, that the business of the Parliament did break his heart, or, at least, put him into this fever and disorder, that caused his death.
The naked woods, trees, rocks, lake, river, mountain, would have done the business just as well, and saved a deal of writing and of printing. The most successful artist in this line I know of is Michael Scott, whose tropical sketches in 'Tom Cringle's Log' are unequalled by any landscape-painter, past or present, who uses pen and ink instead of canvas and colors."
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