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To return to Fairview. Mr. Flint was at Fairview on the average of two days out of the week during the summer, and then he was nearly always closeted with a secretary and two stenographers and a long-distance telephone in two plain little rooms at the back of the house. And Mr. Hilary Vane was often in consultation with him, as he was on the present occasion when Victoria flung open the door.
It's the honour of having you," he added, and Victoria thought that no courtier could have worded an invitation better. She would not be missed at Fairview. Her mother was inaccessible at this hour, and the servants would think of her as dining at Leith.
Buller still advocated an attack on the enemy's right, while Warren wished to persevere with his advance by the Fairview Road; but he pointed out that Spion Kop, which his reading of the "secret instructions" had led him to regard as out of bounds, must first be taken. No definite action seems to have been decided on, and Warren was left to act within certain limits on his own responsibility.
Victoria did not lose an instant, but climbed into the buggy at his side and gathered up the reins, and drew the fallen lap-robe over his knees. "I'm going to take you back to Fairview," she said. "And we'll telephone for a doctor." But she had underrated the amount of will left in him.
And at that moment he felt the mysterious Presence that had swept so close to him on that heartbreaking Christmas Eve at Fairview. Storch was standing at the lodging-house door when Fred stepped into the street. "Well, what now?" Storch inquired, with mock politeness. "Let's go home!" Fred returned, emphatically. Almost as soon as the phrase had escaped him he had a sense of its grotesqueness.
Crewe is contesting every foot of ground in the State with the determination and pertinacity which make him a marked man; although the convention wherein his fate will be decided is now but a few days distant, and everything has been done to secure a victory which mortal man can do, let us follow Hilary Vane to Fairview. Not that Hilary has been idle.
He was a school trustee and also held an interest in the summer hotel and in one of the big saw mills on the river. Sheppard Reed was the only son of a local physician, who, during the past twenty years, had built up a substantial practice in and around Fairview. Shep and Snap, as they were always called, were close chums, and once in a while their own folks would refer to them as the Twins.
Here followed their names, familiar to both Philip and his wife. There was a moment of astonished silence and then Sarah said: "Well, Philip, that's what I call the finger of Providence!" "Do you call it the finger of Providence because it points the way you want to go?" asked Philip, with a smile. But his face instantly grew sober. He was evidently very much excited by the call to Fairview.
"I've been up at Fairview to see about Mrs. Flint. She isn't much better." "Is Victoria home?" Mr. Crewe demanded, with undisguised interest. "Poor dear girl!" said Mrs. Pomfret, "of course I wouldn't have mentioned the subject to her, but she wanted to know all about it. It naturally makes an awkward situation between you and her, doesn't it?" "Oh, Victoria's level-headed enough," Mr.
For some time they had been passing the place with the ten-foot iron railing; and now they came to the great stone entrance with the name "Fairview" carved upon it. To Samuel's surprise they turned in. "Where are you going?" he asked. "Home," said the other. And Samuel started. "Do you live here?" he gasped. "Yes," was the reply.