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Concerning all that, there was time enough to think; but something must be done at once to cancel the bargain with Sir Walter Carnaby, without letting his man of law get scent of the fatal defect in title. And now that the ladies knew all, what did they say?
They waited some time for the master's words; for he was trying to help laughing. He and Mr. Carnaby were so much alike in the pictures, and both so like South Sea islanders, that it was impossible to help laughing at the thought of this sketch going abroad as a representation of the Crofton masters. At last, all parties laughed aloud, and Mr.
To-morrow he will have his own lessons; but to-night " "There is always the multiplication-table," replied Mr. Carnaby. "The young gentleman is partial to that, I fancy." Hugh reddened, and applied himself to his bread and milk. "Never mind a joke," whispered Mrs. Watson. "We wont plague you with the multiplication-table the first evening. I will find you a book or something.
Robinette cried in her heart; then she saw a bevy of girls approaching; such nice-looking girls, happy, well dressed, but all unattended by their suitable complement of young men. "For whom do they dress, here? They've a deal of self-respect, I think, to go on getting themselves up so nicely for themselves and the Celibate, the Paralytic, and Carnaby," thought Robinette, as she watched them.
John's Ambulance classes to a rather abnormal case, Beatrice came galloping through the trees full-tilt, with Lord Carnaby hard behind her, and she was hatless, muddy from a fall, and white as death. "And cool as a cucumber, too," said Cothope, turning it over in his mind as he told me. Also he witnessed she acted with remarkable decision.
Carnaby, spying him there, came rushing from the house, and was soon pouring out a tale of something that had happened somewhere, and throwing stones as he talked, at the birds circling about the ivied tower of the little church. The field was full of buttercups up to the very churchyard walls. "I must get away by myself for a bit," Lavendar thought. "That boy's chatter will drive me mad."
Alton had like most of his kind been taught by necessity to hold the weaknesses of his body in subjection, but he was a man with the instincts of his fellows, and the thought of the steaming kettle, smell of roasting meat, glare of flickering light, and snug blankets appealed to him, and just then he would not have bartered the blackened can of smoke-tasted tea for all the plate and glass of Carnaby.
As I told him no man in the possession of all his wits would have made such a will, and there was a probability that it could he successfully contested." "Then I think you blundered, father," said the girl. Deringham raised his hand as though to indicate that he did not purpose to discuss the question. "I have been trying to show you that Alton never regarded Carnaby as his. You follow me?" "No.
Well, you're the best judge, and we won't say any more about that. But look here about Mrs. S. and her scandal. I feel sure, as I said, that she's toadying to Mrs. Carnaby, and expects to make her gain out of it somehow. Her husband's a loafing, gambling fellow, and I shouldn't wonder if he gave her the skip.
Holt shivered. Hugh never moved. It was long, very long, before Dale returned. When he did, he brought a remarkably stout broomstick. "This wont break, I think, sir," said he. The boys giggled. Mr. Carnaby knuckled Dale's head as he asked him if he called that a switch. "Bring me a switch," said he. "One that is not too stout, or else it will not sting. It must sting, remember, sting well.
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