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If you're any good you can go pretty far with me pulling for you. You don't like that idea?" "Not for now," said Fitz. "I like mine better." "Do you want to live on what you earn?" "If I can stand it." "You'll be started with ten dollars a week, say. Can you do it?" "What did grandpa start on?" asked Fitz.
Near him lay Fitz Lee, the ardent and laughing cavalier, with the flowing beard, the sparkling eyes, the top-boots, and cavalry sabre the man to stand by Gordon. On a log, a few feet distant, sat the burly Longstreet, smoking with perfect nonchalance his heavily bearded face exhibiting no emotion whatever.
His papacy again lasted less than a year, and his successor, Eugenius III, whose reign lasted almost to the end of Stephen's, was decidedly unfriendly. Henry of Winchester was for a time suspended; and the king's candidate for the archbishopric of York, William Fitz Herbert, afterwards St.
Fitz went away as pleased as Punch with this encomium of the great Mirobolant, and was one of those who voted against the decreasing of Mirobolant's salary, when the measure was proposed by Mr. Parings, Colonel Close, and the Screw party in the committee of the club. Faithful to the promise of his great master, the youthful Cavalcadour called in Lilliput Street the next day.
The daughter, who was an enthusiast, gave a sudden bound on to Miss Fitzroy's lap, and thus it was that the cheque was countersigned with two blots and a paw mark. None the less, the bank honoured it, being a kind bank, and not desirous to emphasise too abruptly the fact that Fanny Fitz was overdrawn.
'No, she replied, 'it is no use keeping anything from your father. He has got an almost magic power of finding out things. Besides, your Aunt Flora always tries to cheer him if she can. Put the letter on the tray beside his breakfast, Camilla. I will take it up myself. Camilla and Fitz had almost finished their meal before Mrs Harper returned.
Far below, in the basement, a bell rang, and soon after there was a step on the stairs. "Who is that?" inquired Mrs. Harrington. "Fitz." The dying woman was looking at the door with an unwonted longing in her eyes. "You seem to know his step," she said, with a jealous laugh. Eve said nothing. The door opened, and Fitz came in. Mrs. Harrington was the first to speak.
Pensée Fitz Rewes came first very graceful in lavender silk, and accompanied by her little boy, who showed by an unconscious anxiety of expression that he felt instinctively his mother's air of contentment was assumed. Then Baron Zeuill, with Brigit on his arm, followed. The Baron looked grave too grave for the happy circumstances.
"And in the meantime I expect you want breakfast?" put in Fitz, carefully avoiding Eve. "Yes," added the girl, "of course. Sit down. No, here!" "Thankye thankye, miss my dear, I mean. Oh, anything'll do for me. A bit of bread and a cup o' tea. I had a bit and a sup on board before she sheered alongside the quay."
With Waltheof and Hereward English names disappear from English history, from the roll of sovereigns, ministers, bishops, earls, and sheriffs; and their place is taken by names beginning with "fitz" and distinguished by "de."
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