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You seem to be one of the rare beings he regards with special favor. You like him in return. The combination is excellent for my purpose. I do not know when this woman first came into Monsignore Murray's life, but he has seen her quite frequently during the last few years. No one knows where she came from or who she is, except that she calls herself 'Miss Atheson."

Where are our bundles?" asked Amy, who was a very literal young lady. "Each of you told what your burden was just now, except Beth. I rather think she hasn't got any," said her mother. "Yes, I have. Mine is dishes and dusters, and envying girls with nice pianos, and being afraid of people."

Brian bowed his head. "I will make all necessary arrangements with Mr. Colquhoun, and send him to you," he said. "I think there is nothing else about which we have to speak?" "Nothing," said Mrs. Luttrell, steadily. "Except Hugo.

The street before it might have been a second-rate New York, or, preferably, Boston, business street, except for a peculiarly London commonness in the smutted yellow brick and harsh red brick shops and public-houses.

'Returning-time-in-to-look-at-as-for-is-good. As we descend to the bay, the whole of Kaka-ura, including even the long-invisible ancients of the village, accompanies us; making no sound except the pattering of geta. Thus we are escorted to our boat.

"Let me read my log my own way, or I cannot read it at all and you know, master, I never spin a long yarn, except when I can't help it." Dalton smiled, for, of all the youths he had ever known, Springall loved the most to hear himself talk.

"What?" asked the baron. "That everything in the world is so little, so little." "Except my appetite, which is immense at this moment," cried the baron.

The following general rule may therefore be laid down: The Block Vote works best when the total votes given to rejected candidates do not exceed the total votes given to successful candidates. The difficulties indicated above were met by the Australian Natives' Association by a plan which provided that no candidate should be elected except by an absolute majority of the voters.

James Thorndale was, as usual, with him, and was explaining that there had been a consultation between the doctor and the colonel, and they had decided that as there was not much chance of restoring his health in that climate in the spring. 'Spring! he interrupted, with surprise and eagerness, 'Is it spring? 'Hardly except that there is no winter here. This is the 8th of January.

She had oh, she was quite sure of this no longer any interest in Fraser except the impersonal desire to save his life. Having thought it all over, she was convinced that her friends had nothing to fear from him as a spy. That was what he had tried to tell her when she would not listen. Deep in her heart she knew why she had not listened.