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"Now," he said, "I'll find out what all this rush is about." Without the formality of a knock, he went in. Inside Jack's cabin, Frank found his commander and chum engaged in conversation with the engineer officer, who had sought his new commander immediately after giving instructions below. He saluted Frank as the lad entered. "My first officer, Lieutenant Chadwick, Mr.
But something might turn up; and it was devoutly to be hoped that Dr Tempest would take a long time over his inquiry. The assizes might come on as soon as it was terminated, or very shortly afterwards; and then everything might be well. "You won't find Dr Tempest very ready at it," said Mr Chadwick. The bishop in his heart was comforted by the words.
Having paid his respects to the bishop he returned quietly to the side of his old friend Mr. Thorne, thereby angering Mrs. Proudie, as might easily be seen by her face. And Mr. Chadwick also was there, the episcopal man of business for the diocese; but he also adhered to the two gentlemen above named. And now that the bishop and the ladies had taken their places, Mr.
Because such is my will and intention," said he, peremptorily and haughtily, bending his eagle-look upon her. "What sort of a feller is he? He ain't got nothin' the matter with him, has he?" A wild desire to slap Milly's niece came upon Chadwick Champneys at that. "He is my nephew!" he said haughtily. "Why on earth should he have anything the matter with him?"
The bell sang its buzzing note; there was the sound of crunching wheels on the driveway; the music ceased abruptly. Silence. A door opened and closed. A moment or so later Karloff, preceded by the girl, came into the study. She was grave because she remembered Mrs. Chadwick. He was grave also; he had various reasons for being so.
'Courage, my boy, courage! cried Mr. Chadwick. 'Your father, I believe, destines you for commerce. Is that your own wish? Speak freely. Speak as though I were a friend you have known all your life. 'I should like to please my father, sir, jerked from the boy's lips. 'Good! Admirable! That's the spirit I like, Humplebee. Then you have no marked predilection?
Thomas Chadwick was a "character" in the Five Towns, and of a somewhat unusual sort. "Characters" in the Five Towns are generally either very grim or very jolly, either exceptionally shrewd or exceptionally simple; and they nearly always, in their outward aspect, depart from the conventional. Chadwick was not thus. Aged fifty or so, he was a portly and ceremonious man with an official gait.
This volume, which was called the Boy Inventors' Wireless Triumph, told of the boys' exploits in the radio-telegraphic field and the uses to which they were able to turn them. In a flying machine, the invention of Mr. Chadwick, they discovered Tom's father, under remarkable circumstances, a prisoner of a tribe of savages, and also found a fortune in precious stones.
Chadwick may weary in well-doing; or she may die; or she may even get married, though that's very unlikely, unless one of the boarders can't pay his board and wants to make it up to her in some way. Heigho! I feel like a princess, like a capitalist, like a gilded society lady!" sighed Polly, fanning herself with her hat.
"I'm very much obliged to you, Chadwick." "Not at all, m'm!" He was still standing in the sheltered porch. An idea seemed to strike Mrs Clayton Vernon. "Would you like something to drink?" she asked. "Well, thank ye, m'm," said Thomas. "Maria," said Mrs Vernon, calling to someone within the house, "bring this man a glass of beer." And she turned again to Chadwick, smitten with another idea.
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