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All that was known was the fact that he had been brought on board from the Maud, which Sparks had learned from the sailors who assisted in removing him. The commander and the "Big Four" were still closeted on the upper deck, and there was no one to answer any questions. Before Captain Scott had finished his report, Dr.
When it was over, and Valbrand had ridden away in the darkness, Rolf sought out the scribe and gently gave him to understand that he was curious in the matter. But Alwin only cast a doubtful glance across the fire at Helga, and begged him to talk of something else. Late the next afternoon, Valbrand returned, his horse muddy and spent, and was closeted for a long time with Leif and the old German.
He had the air, now, of the man who finds himself disagreeably and unexpectedly closeted with a lunatic; and his language, although he sought to control it, became even a trifle less coherent. "You must make allowances for us business men, Mr. Hodder. I mean, of course, we're sometimes a little lax in our duties in the summer, that is. Don't shoot the pianist, he's doing his ahem!
Last of all, his father heard it when he came home about an hour before noon from the sitting of the Council of Ten, of which he was a member for that year. He found Zuan Venier waiting in the hall of his house, and the two remained closeted together for some time.
And now, in addition to this, her son Augustus was to be found on every wet morning closeted somewhere with Sophia Furnival; on every wet morning, and sometimes on dry mornings also! And then, on this very day, Lady Staveley had discovered that Felix Graham's door in the corridor was habitually left open.
I found him at Redondo's ball last week in the uniform of a Portuguese major, and through him I was able to track down Souza's chief instrument I discovered them closeted with him in one of the card-rooms." "And you didn't arrest them?" "Arrest them! I apologised for my intrusion, and withdrew. La Fleche took his leave of them.
That evening on retiring the Emperor said to me, in a very severe tone, that the Empress had informed him she had learned from me, that, at the time she came to question me in regard to him, he was closeted with a lady. Not at all disturbed, I replied to the Emperor, that of course he could not believe that.
The hangman was making ready his cords and ladders; Don Frederic of Toledo was closeted with President Viglius, who, somewhat against his will, was aroused at midnight to draw the warrants for these impromptu executions; Alva was waiting with grim impatience for the dawn upon which the show was to be exhibited, when an unforeseen event suddenly arrested the homely tragedy.
Two days afterwards the news reached Edward that Lord Oxford and Jasper of Pembroke uncle to the boy afterwards Henry VII. had sailed from England. The tidings reached the king in his chamber, where he was closeted with Gloucester. The conference between them seemed to have been warm and earnest, for Edward's face was flushed, and Gloucester's brow was perturbed and sullen.
'No time like the present, said the Duke, and, at once dismissing his horse, returned with Mr. Ward into the Ordnance Office. There, then, he remained closeted with the Duke till past eight, listening to and answering his pertinent queries upon manifold points connected with the department.