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That beast doesn't even try to keep it from her. If she had only the least bit of spirit! She knows how I feel, too, only she's too frightened even to look him in the face, let alone open her mouth. He would tell her to go hang herself." For some time Heyst said nothing. A public, active contest with the hotel-keeper was not to be thought of. The idea was horrible.
The recovered motor-car drew up before The Flowery Crossways with a flourish. The beaming chauffeur jumped down and went towards the hotel-keeper and the police sergeant. "It was my car all right!" he cried. "And I believed that never again should I set eyes on it!... When I think."... The chauffeur stopped short; the unresponsive hotel-keeper and the police sergeant were staring at him fixedly.
The sleepless nights made him ill he who never was ill; also he was losing precious days of his short holiday, while doing no good to himself and no good to Sylvia. Sending for the hotel-keeper, he curtly told him that he meant to leave Lacville that evening. M. Malfait expressed much sorrow and regret. Was M'sieur not comfortable?
From his autobiography we gather that his father, though dimly tracing his descent from the famous Wallace of Stirling, was born at Hanworth, in Middlesex, where there appears to have been a small colony of residents bearing the same name but occupying varied social positions, from admiral to hotel-keeper the grandfather of Alfred Russel Wallace being known as a victualler.
He bestowed a shadowy wink on the stranger Below, the outlaws moved here and there. "Billy!" shouted a commanding voice, "Billy Knapp!" The hotel-keeper looked perplexed. "Now, what's he tollin' me for?" he asked of the man by his side. "Billy!" shouted the voice again, "come down here, you Siwash. I want to palaver with you!" "All right, Hank," replied Billy.
He shewed me several letters of recommendation for the best houses in Vicenza, and our departure was fixed for early the next morning. I was at the "Star Hotel" by daybreak. A carriage and four was ready; the hotel-keeper came up with his bill, and P C begged me to pay it.
Lemuel Malpas was a dashing young commercial traveller, with what is known as 'an agreeable address, in Bursley, one of the Five Towns, Staffordshire. On the strength of his dash he wooed and married the daughter of an hotel-keeper in the neighbouring town of Hanbridge. Six months after the wedding in other words, at the most dangerous period of the connubial career Mrs.
I have made a bargain with every hotel-keeper or inn-keeper in the whole county for that one day, and the voters may revel as they please at their own expense; that is, a dinner may be had for two kreutzers, a supper for three, and the wine will be included in that price. Who can forbid an inn-keeper to sell cheap viands? You will have nothing to do with the whole business.
He paused and continued diffidently: "It could be arranged with the hotel-keeper." She laughed in a half-hysterical manner, and he remembered what she had said about the treasury, and that fares are high in that country. "I suppose you have no money," he added with blunt directness. "I want you to tell Mrs. Marvin that I'll lend her enough to take you all to Victoria." Her face crimsoned.
Happily the military publican soon afterwards failed in business, and William found a better master and a more congenial employment with Captain Cilvers, on board a steam-boat plying between St. Louis and Galena. At the close of the sailing season he was levied to an hotel-keeper, a native of a free state, but withal of a class which exist north as well as south a most inveterate negro hater.
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