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She looked rather sharply out of her still bright blue eyes at the woman now standing before her. Mrs. Otway shook her head. "No, Major Guthrie did not write to me before leaving England." "Ah, well, he was very busy, and my son's the sort of man who always chooses to do his duty before he takes his pleasure. He can write quite a good letter when he takes the trouble."
Instructions had already been wired through from London that the Sheppey police were to put themselves entirely at his disposal; and having commandeered a car, the three of them, together with our friend the sergeant, set off to the bungalow. They pulled up some little distance away and waited for Guthrie, Latimer's other assistant, who had been keeping an eye on the place during the night.
"Tell my sone," he says in a letter to Nicholas, "that I shall lesse grieeve to hear that he is knoked in the head, than that he should doe so meane an act as is the rendering of Bristoll castell and fort upon the termes it was." May. Guthrie, 194. Baillie, ii. 156, 157, 273. This defeat perplexed the theology of that learned man.
Guthrie Brimston was known as "The Brimston Woman." Her conversation bristled with vain repetitions. She was always "a worm" when asked after her health, and everything that pleased her was "pucka."
Guthrie did know no one better, he believed. But he did not say. "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all," says the old proverb. True enough. But one might write it this way, with even more truth: "It is better to love and lose than to love and gain." One means by love, romantic love, of course. Dinner was over.
And, as her mother made no answer, the girl, seeing as if for the first time how sad, how worn, that same dear mother's face now looked, came close up to her and whispered, "I think, mother forgive me if I'm wrong that you care for Major Guthrie as I care for Jervis Blake." The days that followed Mrs.
For pure eloquence it was the finest outburst I ever heard from his lips. Like Patrick Henry, Clay, Guthrie, Spurgeon and other great masters of assemblies, he was gifted with a richly melodious voice which was especially effective on the low and tender keys. This gave him great power in the pathetic portions of his discourses. Of his superabounding humor I need not speak.
Guthrie, the President of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, detected that we were holding on to all his locomotives and cars, he wrote me, earnestly remonstrating against it, saying that he would not be able with diminished stock to bring forward the necessary stores from Louisville to Nashville.
She heard the words: 'Mr Carey is alive, and instantly believed them; at the same moment her dream-palace vanished, and she saw the bare ground of her love affair exactly as it was as Guthrie himself would see it and just how she had deceived herself and others. Her healthy heart and nervous system could not support her under the impact of such a shock.
Upon this urgency, Lesly showed none of that indifference towards his nephew of which Quentin had in his heart accused him; for he no sooner saw his comrade and Durward standing upon their defence, than he exclaimed, "Cunningham, I thank thee. Gentlemen comrades, lend me your aid. It is a young Scottish gentleman my nephew Lindesay Guthrie Tyrie, draw, and strike in!"
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