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"Take care o' the old gaffer I brought along wi' me," had been his parting recommendation to the hostess of the "Trusty Man." "Tell 'im I've left a bottle o' yerb wine in the bar for 'im. M'appen ye might find an odd job or two about th' 'ouse an' garden for 'im, just for lettin' 'im rest a while." Miss Tranter had nodded curtly in response to this suggestion, but had promised nothing.
A strip of linen to bandage it! Meanwhile, let the impatient intruder learn that her sign is not enough to open every door." Then he entered his sitting room, greeted Ledscha curtly, invited her to go into the studio, unlocked it, and left her there alone while he went to his chamber with the slave and had the slight wound bandaged comfortably.
She hated him more than he hated her. They were just in time for a boat at Cortlandt Street. When they reached the Jersey City side Wollaston went straight to the information bureau, and then returned to Gladys and Maria, seated on a bench in the waiting-room. "Well, there is a train," he said, curtly. "'Ain't it been took off?" asked Gladys. "No, but we've got to wait an hour and a half."
Woolsey's term, the first part of 1864, when we had been there some time, he wrote to Boss asking if he would sell myself and wife, and offering $3,000 for both of us. Boss was indignant at this and curtly refused. My wife acted as cook at the salt works, in the headquarters for the president, managers and clerks. Mr.
Sakr-el-Bahr crossed to Asad's side, and begged for a word alone with him. "I am alone," said the Basha curtly. "Marzak is nothing, then," said Sakr-el-Bahr. "I have long suspected it."
She, too, had a very nice appearance in her best clothes as she walked along the sarcenet hat, muslin shawl, and tight-sleeved gown being of the newest Overcombe fashion, that was only about a year old in the adjoining town, and in London three or four. She could not be harsh to Loveday and dismiss him curtly, for his musical pursuits had refined him, educated him, and made him quite poetical.
Urging the roan forward, he rode splashing through the shallow stream, up the gentle slope, and swung out of his saddle close to the kitchen door. This stood open, and striding up to it Buck met the languid gaze of a swarthy middle-aged Mexican who lounged just within the portal. "Miss Thorne around?" he asked curtly. "Sure," shrugged the Mexican. "I t'ink she in fron' house.
"No," said he curtly and sturdily. "Why not? You like Tregear." "Certainly I like Tregear. He is the friend, among men, whom I like the best. I have only two real friends." "Who are they?" she asked, sinking her voice very low. "He is one; and you are the other. You know that." "I hoped that I was one," she said. "But if you love Tregear so dearly, why do you not approve of him for your sister?"
Perhaps he has told Jost where he is, and where a letter would reach him." "Yes, but look here, Veronica, are you still thinking about him, all this time?" asked poor Blasi, quite taken aback. "We will not talk about that," she answered curtly. "To tell the truth, I am very anxious about our mother.
Sir Mowbray Elsmere replied curtly in a day or two to the effect that Robert's letter seemed to him superfluous. He, Sir Mowbray, had nothing to do with his cousin's views. When the living was vacant the present holder, however, was uncommon tough and did not mean dying he should follow out the instructions of his father's will, and if Robert did not want the thing he could say so.
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