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He would accept this invitation, and on the same day, in the afternoon, he would boldly call at the Derwents'. Why not? as Mrs. Hannaford said. John Jacks, M.P., was undoubtedly the social superior of Dr. Derwent; admitted to the house at Queen's Gate, one might surely with all confidence present oneself in Bryanston Square. Was he not an educated man, by birth a gentleman?
A little boy came up at this moment and looked in upon them. This child was one of the Coggans, who, with the Smallburys, were as common among the families of this district as the Avons and Derwents among our rivers.
But they whom Heaven teaches are sometimes called Samuel-like while to them still pertains the childish ephod and the temple-porch. Passing on, with footsteps silent and solemn as her own heart, Olive came to the street, on the verge of the town, where was her own dwelling and Sara's. From habit she looked in at the Derwents' house.
"Do you see the Derwents?" Mrs. Florio asked of a sudden, with a sidelong look. So vexed was Otway at the embarrassment he could not wholly hide, and which delayed his answer, that he spoke the truth with excessive bluntness. "I have met Miss Derwent in society." "I don't often see them," said Olga, in a tone of weariness. "I suppose we belong to different worlds."
At moments, Arnold felt the burning of a lover's impatience. They parted. The Derwents returned to London; Arnold set off to pay a hasty visit or two in the North. The wedding was to take place a couple of months hence, and the pair would spend their Christmas in Egypt. A few days after her arrival in Bryanston Square, Irene went to see the Hannafords.
Minty wriggled out of the excited clutch. "I don't care, they walk jest the way Jim an' Kitty did when they come out o' church." "What do you s'pose she's all in black for? Miss Marthy never had anybody to lose that ever I heard of. You don't suppose she'd go in black for one o' the Derwents, do you? It makes her look awful slim, and she walks so slow. Maybe she's been sick."
Olive had never in her life before been at a "private ball," with chalked floors, rout seats, and a regular band. She was quite dazzled by the transformation thus effected in the Derwents' large, rarely-used, dining-room, where she had had many a merry game with little Robert and Lyle. It was perfect fairyland.
They have been land-holders, slave-owners, and planters on a large scale. One of two of the Derwents your mother's family were in the law. Have you decided to accept this appointment, William?" "I am thinking it over," said Billy, slowly, regarding the ash of his cigar. "You have been a good son to me," continued the Governor, stirring his pipe with the handle of a penholder.
"Simply because I expect you'll marry anyway, and Edna Derwents don't grow on every bush. Can't you understand? Of course, I don't know much about your finances, really." "Is that the whole question?" asked Dunham. "If I didn't need a banker, should you be reminding me that a young man married is a man that's marred, and all that sort of thing?" "No," the judge shrugged his little shoulders.
You are aware, by the bye, that he is doing very well belongs to a firm of manufacturers of explosives?" "Indeed? I wish he would explode his own head off." The Doctor spoke with most unwonted fierceness. Arnold Jacks, without verbally seconding the wish, showed by an uneasy smile that he would not have mourned the decease of this relative of the Derwents. Mrs.
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