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Dobson had left her glasses in the kitchen, so she did not notice the white, stony face, so startling in its expression, as her visitor followed her on up the broad staircase into the spacious hall above, and on still further, till they came to the door of Richard's room, which Hannah had left open. Then for a moment Ethelyn hesitated.
Missy didn't know just what it was, not being particularly interested in newspapers and current events, and remote things that didn't matter. But Raymond evidently knew something about Dobson aside from his being just prominent. "I only hope he kisses old Miss Lightner!" he said, chortling. "Kisses her?" repeated Missy, roused from her reveries.
For the next twenty-four hours the affairs of the Aurilla P. Dobson were administered without unnecessary conversations between the principals. On the afternoon of the second day Mr. Bodge, whom no solicitation could coax from his vigil on the capstan, broke his trance. "That's the island," he shouted, flapping both hands to mark his choice. It wasn't an impressive islet.
Suddenly before the young man could answer Dobson bustled toward him. The innkeeper was labouring under some strong emotion, for he seemed to be pleading and pointing urgently towards the door. "I tell ye it's the polis," whispered Dougal. "They're nickit." There was a swaying in the crowd and anxious faces.
Then followed in succession Mr Brook with his wife, Charlie Considine, Hans with Gertie, and Scholtz with his vrow, the procession closing with Frank Dobson and Junkie, the latter having been transferred to Frank when Dally took the lead.
The words of the modern minor poet are as rubies, and what if his sets bring a hundred guineas? it is more as it should be, than that any sacrilegious hand should fumble them for threepence. It recalls that golden age of which Mr. Dobson has sung, when
The whole staff of Dobson & Barlow's works were to be engaged at an advance of twenty-five per cent. on their present wages for three months to carry out the work of converting the shaft of the Great Lever pit into the gigantic cannon which was to hurl into Space the projectile which might or might not save the human race from destruction.
I thanked the star of destiny then and there that no Mounted Police officer had a string attached to me, by which he could force me to speak or be silent at his will. It was a dirty piece of business on Lessard's part. Even Dobson eyed him wonderingly. "Why, damn it!" Lessard finally burst out, "you've handled this like a green one, fresh from over the water.
This Dobson was one of the ten men who ran away with the pirates' long-boat from the Orkneys, and who were afterwards made prisoners in the Firth of Leith, and carried up to Edinburgh. Gow was now a prisoner among the rest in the Marshalsea. His behaviour there was sullen and reserved, rather than penitent. It had been hinted to him by Mr.
The most disagreeable things can be got through pleasantly. Now, you're such a sensible girl, can't you think of something?" Mrs. Dobson always speaks of Maud as "such a sensible girl"; spiteful people suggest that this praise is a form of apology for the absence of physical charm. Maud meditated deeply. "Everybody seems to have thought of everything, mamma, that's the worst of it. You see, Mrs.
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