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"Then, Mr Gresham, what did you intend?" This was rather a difficult question to answer; and Frank was not very quick in attempting it. "I know you will not forgive me," he said at last; "and, indeed, I do not see how you can.
Colonel Gresham's the one to do it because he's going, too. He'll drive his big car. I thought it wouldn't do to have father, for she'd think I got him to do it. But Colonel Gresham would win anybody if he tried." Miss Sterling nodded approvingly. "Aren't you glad I thought of it?" "It looks the best thing." "It is! Guess I'll go and ask the folks now! Will you come?" "No, thank you!
"Mary," said he, stopping in the path for they were now near the spot where it broke out upon the lawn, and they could already hear the voices of the guests "Mary, you are unkind to me." "I am not aware of it, Mr Gresham; but if I am, do not you retaliate. I am weaker than you, and in your power; do not you, therefore, be unkind to me." "You refused my hand just now," continued he.
Master Gresham at length yielded to the entreaties of his wife; and having put on his riding-dress, and secured his arms round him, accompanied by his faithful attendant James Brocktrop, he took his departure from his house. He was soon clear of the City, riding along the pleasant lanes and open fields towards the north of London.
A shell entered the Gresham Bar, and it was surprising that so few glasses should have been smashed; more marvellous still that the fair bar-tender should have remained fair; she was merely frightened. As for the proprietor, he held up fairly well.
Whittle, and I took our places in the dock as our names were called out by Mr. Gresham, the chief clerk of the court. Our summons alleged that we unlawfully did publish, or caused to be published, certain blasphemous libels in a newspaper called the Freethinker, dated the 28th of May, 1882. Mr.
But if it was not my wig and spectacles and stammer for which you felt a magnetic affinity, I want to know exactly what it was you did love; because I am precisely the same human being without them as with them. What about me struck that mysterious chord of sympathy which vibrated in your affections when I was Plumper, which failed to strike it as Gresham?
Gresham, and had been told that gentleman's opinion on the trial of Mr. Jefferson Davis. Lord Brentford had at last called him Finn, and had proved to him that nothing was known in Ireland about sheep. But with Mr. Monk he had had long discussions on abstract questions in politics, and before the week was over was almost disposed to call himself a disciple, or, at least, a follower of Mr. Monk.
Great were the joy and the festivities in the Netherlands, where people were so easily made to rejoice and keep holiday for any thing. "The Regent, being in Antwerp," wrote Sir Thomas Gresham to the lords of council, "did cause the great bell to rings to give all men to understand that the news was trewe.
Why, it is nearly nine o'clock! Miss Lucy will think I have kidnapped you." They hurried away, with laughing good-nights, after being assured by the Doctor that probably Colonel Gresham would "come out all right." David slept downstairs now, in a tiny room adjoining the physician's, and his last thought that night was of the strangeness of it all Uncle David's hurrying to catch Dr.
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