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All day long he had tried to stifle the cry of that same famine, that same hunger of unplaced energy, by industrious work. He had examined, noted, here and there transcribed, passages from deeds, letters, order-books, and diaries offering first-hand information regarding former generations of Calmadys.
You should only hit a man your own size. I told Helen de Vallorbes so. I'm very, very fond of her, but she ought to have spared him." She paused a moment. "All the same if I had not promised Lady Aldham to stay on as she's so poorly I should have gone out of town when I found the Calmadys had come up." "Oh! it goes as far as that, does it?" Ludovic murmured.
And my rather sketchy English gives you an opportunity of which I observe you are by no means slow to take advantage. You care infinitely more for the manner of saying, than for the thing said. Whereas I" she broke off abruptly, and her face straightened, became serious, almost severe, again. "Do you see who Sir Reginald is speaking to?" she added. "There are the Calmadys."
By the way, though, the Calmadys are great friends of yours, aren't they, Miss St. Quentin?" The young man regarded her anxiously, fearful least he should have endangered the agreeable intimacy of their present relation by the introduction of an unpalatable subject of conversation.
For example, Lady Louisa Barking, passing through Lowndes Square one bleak, March morning on her way from Albert Gate to do a little quiet shopping in Sloane Street, observed that the Calmadys' house situated at the corner of the square and of Street was given over to a small army of work-people.
Whatever of strange, grotesque, and curious, Calmadys of past generations had collected in their wanderings, by land and sea, found lodgment here.
Within, the firelight played over the white-paneled walls, revealing fitfully the handsome faces of former Calmadys short-lived, passing hence all unsated with the desperate joys of living painted by Vandyke and Sir Peter Lely, or by Romney and Sir Joshua.
It came out of the business about your settlements, wasn't it or the last time I paid Shotover's " He cleared his throat hurriedly. "I see the Calmadys' house is being done up," he continued. "Nice young fellow, Calmady. But I never can help feeling a certain awkwardness with him. Takes you up rather short in conversation too sometimes.
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