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Agnes gave a little cry of delight, and even Aunt Constance clapped her hands lightly, for Chalmers, a young lawyer of excellent social connections, was a prime favorite with the Ellistons, and in the business he had transacted for the Burnit estate Bobby had found in him sterling qualities.
Hurlbut held his ground till four o'clock, but by half-past four he retreated, leaving Prentiss' left in air. Through the two gaps thus made the Confederate left and right poured in and encircled Prentiss and Wallace. After their surrender there was no fighting, except Chalmers' bold, but idle assault. In this day's battle the National loss was nearly ten thousand killed, wounded, and captured.
Nutty, making this discovery, had emitted one wild yell, dropped the frame, and started at full speed for the house, his retreat expedited by repeated stings from the nervous bees. Bill, more prudent, remained absolutely motionless. He eyed the seething frame with interest, but without apparent panic. 'I want you to help me here, Mr Chalmers. You have stronger wrists than I have.
Chalmers Mitchell's stimulating work, The Childhood of Animals, in which the secretary of the Zoological Society of London says: 'I have attempted to avoid the use of terms familiar only to students of zoology and to refrain from anatomical detail, but at the same time to refrain from the irritating habit assuming that my readers have no knowledge, no dictionaries and no other books.
"Yet I'll let you in on this, Dorminster: there isn't another living person who knows so much of what is going on behind the scenes in Europe as that man." "Why has he chucked his job, then?" Nigel enquired. "He will tell you that to-night," was Chalmers' quiet reply.
The worst of these inarticulate and undemonstrative people is that they hurt you so. Three days later I introduced Robert Chalmers Fordyce into the bosom of my family. I had declined to give them any previous information about him, beyond a brief warning that they would find him "rather Scotch."
Chalmers thought was George Steevens. See ante, iii. 281, and post, May 15, 1784. If this be Lord Mansfield, Boswell must use late in the sense of in retirement; for Mansfield was living when the Life of Johnson was published. He retired in 1788. The fact that Mansfield is mentioned in the previous paragraph adds to the probability that he is meant. See ante, ii. 318.
"Unless," suggested Esther, "they had sent it on by wireless to the boat." "Of course, I didn't think of that. Anyhow, it doesn't matter now that he will be here so soon. He must have wanted to surprise us. We didn't expect him for another two months." She turned briskly to the butler. "Get the corner room ready, Chalmers. What a good thing we put the doctor at the back!
She seated herself beside the hive and began to loosen the outside section. Then taking the brood-frame by the projecting ends, she pulled it out and handed it to her companion. She did it as one who plays an ace of trumps. 'Would you mind holding this, Mr Chalmers?
Immelan watched Nigel's retreating figure with a menacing frown. "I find it so," he replied. "Our wonderful prima donna is in great voice to-night and I like to be prepared for all possible combinations." Maggie came suddenly into the library at Belgrave Square, where Jesson, Chalmers and Nigel were talking together. She carried in her hand a note, which she handed to the latter.
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