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"Keep them under observation," Dory ordered shortly, "but I am afraid this fellow Cawdor has sold me." He found a hansom outside, and sprang into it. "Number 27, Southampton Row," he ordered. Rounceby and his partner were alone in the little smoking room. The former was almost inarticulate. The night porter brought them brandy, and both men drank.
I repeat that up to a point the profiteer was innocent because he was ignorant; he had been lured on by easy and accommodating events. He was innocent as the new Thane of Glamis was innocent, as the new Thane of Cawdor was innocent; but the King The modern manufacturer, like Macbeth, decided to march on, under the mute menace of the heavens.
They undoubtedly thought the two women quite out of their heads, and it was plain that I suffered greatly in Antoine's estimation by my encouragement of this frivolity. Mrs. Farnsworth walked majestically round the table and addressed to me the lines from Macbeth beginning: "Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be What thou art promised,"
All the company heard the applause, and, as the curtain went down, came round her and congratulated and hated Miss Fotheringay. Now Mr. Dolphin's appearance in the remote little Chatteris theatre may be accounted for in this manner. The great Hubbard had acted legitimate drama for twenty nights, and failed to remunerate anybody but himself: the celebrated Mr. and Mrs. Cawdor had come out in Mr.
"Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more, Macbeth shall sleep no more." With such horrible imaginations Macbeth returned to his listening wife, who began to think he had failed of his purpose, and that the deed was somehow frustrated.
At which the Englishman, still deferentially, mistrusted the fact that the murder had been committed there, and thought that the castle to which Shakespeare probably referred, if he hadn't invented the murder, too, was farther north, at Cawdor. "You know," he added playfully, "over there in America you've discovered that Shakespeare himself was an invention."
"You left the village of Scawton in a motor car with them?" "Yes! We quarrelled on the way, and parted." "You were robbed of nothing?" Victor Franklin smiled. "Certainly not," he answered. "I had nothing worth stealing except my plans, and they are in my pocket now." There was a few moments' intense silence. Dory wheeled suddenly round, and looked to where Mr. Vincent Cawdor had been standing.
At any rate, you may rely upon it that he will not make any overtures in a public place like the Milan. Mr. Vincent Cawdor may be a curious sort of person, but I do not fancy that he is a fool!" "Very well," Miss Brown said, "I will go." "Be back soon after three," Peter Ruff said. "I am going up to my room to do my exercises." "And afterwards?" she asked.
She, who had been Lady Macbeth, and received the Thane of Cawdor at her own gates; who had been Juliet, the heiress of all the Capulets; who had seen dukes and nobles snubbed unmercifully every night of her life by virtuous poverty, on the stage. Before the end of the first week Mollie had become the light of the house, perfectly indispensable to the happiness of its inmates.
Cawdor moved his place and sat between the men. He laid a hand upon Marnstam's shoulder another on Rounceby's knee. "My dear friends," he said, impressively, "if you could have built a model, or conducted these negotiations in the usual way, you might have asked a million. As it is, I think I am the only man in England who could have dealt with this matter so satisfactorily."
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