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Franklyn prodded for another slice of bacon. "You can't, old chap," he remarked. "That's filled." George shouted: "Filled! What do you mean?" "Why, taken gone. Simpson's got it ten days ago." An icy chill smote my poor George. After the dreadful loss of Runnygate everything had depended upon this appointment with its salary considerably above the average. "Simpson! Simmy got it!" he shouted.
Franklyn, as well as the surprising performances of Signora Catherina, Harry wisely determined that he would go to Marybone Gardens, where they had a concert of music, a choice of tea, coffee, and all sorts of wines, and the benefit of Mr. Draper's ceaseless conversation.
And no one durst afterwards refuse the benevolence required. See further, Coke, p. 80. Franklyn, p. 79. Rushworth, vol. i. p. 115. Kennet, p. 778.
Sell my house, Franklyn, and find me a bungalow on the South Coast facing the sea." I turned away and went towards the door, Alice followed me. The house agent sat in helpless amazement. He filled me with a sense of nausea. He seemed so gross, so mindless. "A bungalow," he whispered. "Yes. Let us have long, low, simple rooms and a garden where we may grow enough to live on.
But I understand that you are not really interested. I will spare you, and drop the subject. Please do not take it in that way. I only Go on, Barnabas: go on. FRANKLYN. Our program is only that the term of human life shall be extended to three hundred years. SAVVY. Our election cry is 'Back to Methuselah! HASLAM. Priceless! Lubin and Surge look at one another. CONRAD. No. We are not mad.
And thus the fond prince, while he meant to play the tutor to his favorite, and to train him up in the rules of prudence and politics, took an infallible method, by loading him with premature and exorbitant honors, to render him, forever, rash, precipitate, and insolent. * See Biog. Brit, article Coke, p. 1384. Bacon, vol.iv. p. 617. * Franklyn, p. 30. Clarendon, 8vo. edit. vol. i. p. 10
The lieutenant of the Tower was a creature of Rochester's, and had lately been put into the office for this very purpose: he confined Overbury so strictly, that the unhappy prisoner was debarred the sight even of his nearest relations, and no communication of any kind was allowed with him during near six months which he lived in prison. * State Trials, vol. i. p. 235, 236, 252. Franklyn, p. 14.
Every candidate will have to pledge himself to Free Trade, slightly modified by consideration for our Overseas Dominions; to Disestablishment; to Reform of the House of Lords; to a revised scheme of Taxation of Land Values; and to doing something or other to keep the Irish quiet. Does that satisfy you? FRANKLYN. It does not even interest me. Suppose your friends do commit themselves to all this!
About Bill's mouth, as from George to Mary he glanced, there were the lines of amusement; no menace lay in his clear blue eyes. "Went to look for you at the hospital," Bill replied. "Met that man Franklyn, and he told me you very probably were here." George pushed ahead with the banalities. "Surprised to see Miss Humfray here?" he asked.
"So have I. But I am here at The Sparrow's orders on a little business which I hope to bring off successfully on any evening. I have an English friend with me a Mr. Franklyn." "I left London suddenly. I saw The Sparrow in the evening, and next morning, at eleven o'clock, without even a bag, I left London for Madrid with a very useful passport."
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