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"Let her alone; she will recover," said Mr. Ogilvie, "if only by seeing you do what I never intended." "I like it, teacher as I am by trade." So each day Armine imagined himself bound to the infliction of Percy Stagg, and compelled by headache, cough, or weather, to let his mother be his substitute. "She is keeping him going on days when I am not equal to it," he said to Mr. Ogilvie.

Grainger, on the other hand, dignified and solemn, coughed a short, dry cough behind his hand. "Help him to the devil within the year," repeated Sir Richard, still chuckling. "Pray proceed, sir," said I, motioning towards the will.... But instead of complying, Mr. Grainger laid down the parchment, and removing his spectacles, began to polish them with a large silk handkerchief.

Monsieur was afraid to be detected listening at the door and he therefore made up his mind to cough; the two queens turned round at the sound and Monsieur entered. At sight of the prince, the young queen rose precipitately, and dried her tears. Monsieur, however, knew the people he had to deal with too well, and was naturally too polite to remain silent, and he accordingly saluted them.

If the case does not progress well under the home remedies suggested, a physician should be called at once. DEFINITION. This is a contagious disease which is known by a peculiar whooping sound in the cough. Considerable mucus is thrown off after each attack of spasmodic coughing.

At the far end of the table there was a stir, a cough, and the grating of a chair on the floor; and slowly, with that easy grace which actors of the old school learned in the days when acting was acting, Mr. Maxwell Faucitt, the boarding-house's oldest inhabitant, rose to his feet. "Ladies," said Mr.

The minister might stand there, if it so pleased him, until morning should redden in the east, without other risk than that the dank and chill night air would creep into his frame, and stiffen his joints with rheumatism, and clog his throat with catarrh and cough; thereby defrauding the expectant audience of to-morrow's prayer and sermon.

The entrance was from an immense corridor, prolonged by shadow and divided down the middle by presses full of drying earthenware, the smell of which was not, however, as strong as in the platemakers' place, and the difference was noticed by the clergyman with the cough. He said he was not affected to nearly the same extent.

'Exceedingly true. 'I know her circumstances intimately, ma'am, said Ralph; 'in fact, I am a relation of the family; and I should recommend you not to keep them here, ma'am. 'I should hope, if there was any incompatibility to meet the pecuniary obligations, said Miss La Creevy with another cough, 'that the lady's family would 'No they wouldn't, ma'am, interrupted Ralph, hastily.

'Ah! thought Swithin, 'they can understand if they like. A group of officers close by were laughing; Swithin stared at them uneasily. A hollow cough sounded almost in his ear. To his left a man sat reading, with his elbows on the corners of a journal, and his gaunt shoulders raised almost to his eyes.

A cough, the least movement, the slightest accident, might have betrayed the foolhardy Puyguilhem, and then what would have become of him? These are things the recital of which takes the breath away, and terrifies at the same time. Puyguilhem was more fortunate than prudent, and was not discovered.