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"That's the talk I like. Make a policy and set the buzzer going. Now see here...." At the end of half an hour he had established a link of easy friendship, and had brought the conversation round without difficulty to the matter which was the real object of the interview. "Dean was telling me about the help you gave him on his wild-goose chase to-day. Many thanks.
Originally it may have contained some small relics, and probably is much older than the present minster itself. It was afterwards used as a safe for deeds. In 1735 some deeds were taken from it bearing the date 1200. Formerly, there stood on this aisle the tomb of John de Berwick, dean of the college, who died in 1312.
Lord George had worn out his scruples, and was able to go about his old duties in his old fashion. The Dean had dined there once or twice, and Lord George on one occasion had consented to stay with his wife for a night or two at the deanery. Things seemed to have fallen back quietly into the old way, as they were before the Marquis with his wife and child had come to disturb them.
Your work, which has so promising a commencement, may be regarded as, in one department, a depository of anecdotes of books. W.D. Conybeare, now Dean of Llandaff, and has been printed at the expense of a member of Roxburgh Club. It is No. 9066 of the MSS. call Additional.
Mother's illness and what is to become of me when father goes on the road again is the sad part of it, but the glad part is oh, Marjorie, can't you guess now?" Mary caught Marjorie's hand in hers. "We've come all the way to Sanford to see if," her voice rose high with excitement, "there isn't a little corner in the Dean barracks that a certain lieutenant can call her own for this year and "
I can never forget that I have been a beggar, but I need not make my beggary the matter of conversation. I hope the Holy Land has fulfilled your expectation?" "It has more than done so," said the dean, bewildered by the sudden change. "For myself, it is, of course, impossible that I should ever visit any scenes except those to which my immediate work may call me, never in this world.
"Come," he said briefly, "I will show you my picture." He straightened his tall, fine figure and walked slowly across the room to the table where Denzil Murray sat with his sister and friends. "Denzil," he said, "I have made a strange portrait of the Princess Ziska, and I'm going to show it to Dr. Dean. I should like you to see it too. Will you come?"
That heartfelt cheerfulness with which Henry had ever given him joy upon every happy occasion even amidst all the politer congratulations of his other friends seemed to the dean mournfully wanting. This derogation from his felicity he was resolved to resent; and for a whole year these brothers, whom adversity had entwined closely together, prosperity separated.
The dean had given him money, covered up, in an enclosure, "so that the touch of the coin might not add to my disgrace in taking his alms," said the wretched man, thus speaking openly and freely in his agony of the shame which he had striven so persistently to hide. He had not seen the dean's monies as they had been given, and he had thought that the cheque had been with them.
These ain't dogs, they are wolves; these ain't men, they're devils'; and, as I looked over at Old Grim, and saw him throwing his long whip to right and left, and heard him calling out to his dogs in a language which seemed like nothing human, and all the while preserving the same immovable expression of countenance, I must confess that there seemed to be a great deal of truth in what the Dean said.
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