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"I can't possibly," he said, with calm. "I have to rush off to the club to see Davids about that business." She ignored his inescapable duties! It was nothing to her that he had a hundred affairs to arrange before his night-journey to the north. She wanted him to sit with her. Therefore she thought that he ought to sit with her, and she would be conscious of a grievance if he did not.
"That was old Davids," said Mr. Harry; "when we had him, he was courting a widow who lived over in Hoytville. About once a fortnight, he'd ask father for one of the horses to go over to see her.
The hill referred to is the sacred hill of Mihintale, about eight miles due east of the Bo tree; Davids' Buddhism, pp. 230, 231. But Fa-Hsien gives no intimation of Dharma-gupta's founding a school. South of the city seven le there is a vihara, called the Maha-vihara, where 3000 monks reside.
See the subject exhaustively treated in Davids' "Ceylon Coins and Measures," pp. 15-17. The present Hilda, west of Peshawur, and five miles south of Jellalabad. "The vihara," says Hardy, "is the residence of a recluse or priest;" and so Davids: "the clean little hut where the mendicant lives."
"I don't know whether you would call it damage exactly," returned Captain Ben; "but Loizah Mullers got so scared she left me and went home. She said she couldn't stay and run the chance of another of our coast blows, and off she trapsed." Mrs. Davids sighed like November. "So you have some hard luck as well as myself. I don't suppose you can get a housekeeper to keep her long," said she, dismally.
Nothing is known of his proceedings after the restoration of the monarchy, till he came to Hadley, three or four months later than Whalley and Goffe. After a residence of some years in their neighborhood, he removed to New Haven, where, bearing the name of James Davids, and affecting no particular privacy, he lived to old age.
Manning stepped forward and stated, in as few words as possible, what he desired, and at length displayed the inevitable photograph. Davids recognized it at once, as a "party" who had engaged him to take himself and a woman from the hotel, to a resort some distance from the city, known as the "Half-way House."
The working out of the scheme therefore had now become the duty of the Convocation that had adopted, and in part formulated, the proposed revision. That the Bishops of Winchester, St. Davids, Llandaff, Gloucester and Bristol, Ely, Salisbury, Lincoln, Bath and Wells, be members of the committee.
Davids, Lord Armstrong, Sir Daniel and Lady Hamilton, Alderman Sir Charles C. Wakefield, Sir Edward Clarke, K.C., Sir George Askwith, and the Mayor of Bermondsey and General Booth.
Wrecks always make for the lighthouse, so he s'posed those ones were drowned to death, sure enough." "Oh, then it couldn't have been them, I was warned of!" returned Mrs. Davids, looking as though she regretted it. "It was right over my head, and I waked up just as the thing was rushing past. You haven't heard, have you," she continued, "whether or no there was any other damage done by the gale?"
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