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"If we had only brought an air-gun for I suppose we cannot fire." "Look at those fat geese in a row," said Compton. "What a stew they would make. Just one shot, sir." "It won't do," said Mr. Hume. "A single shot would raise noise enough to wake the seven sleepers." "There is another way," said Muata. "What way?" "A line such as you used for fish see."
I am willing to play fair and I think that that is fair. It leaves you where you started. It leaves me where I started except that I shall have been spending a good many thousands for Wanda's wedding present." Hume, his brows knitted, rose to his feet and strode back and forth in the room, trying to look his problem squarely in the face.
A great meeting, what you call a mass meeting, is really one of the oldest and most popular of Indian institutions In the case of the Congress meetings, the only notable fact is that the priests of the altar are British, not Buddhist, Jam or Brahmanical, and that the whole thing is a British contrivance kept alive by the efforts of Messrs. Hume, Eardley, Norton, and Digby."
Notwithstanding the many attractions of this appointment, Hume writes that he leaves home "with infinite regret, where I had treasured up stores of study and plans of thinking for many years;" and his only consolation is that the opportunity of becoming conversant with state affairs may be profitable:
The one author in whose favour the rules of "correct writing" were commonly set aside was Shakespeare; and perhaps there is no testimony to his greatness so convincing as the unwilling homage it extorted from the contemporaries of Pope, of Johnson, and of Hume. One more instance, and we may leave this depressing study in critical perversity.
Again there came the whine, then the sound of an animal scrambling, and next the patter of feet. "A dog," whispered Venning. "I advise keeping on," said Compton. "And I," replied Mr. Hume, "advise that we have something to eat. Will you serve us, Venning?" They ate hungrily, for through the day they had been too much excited to think of food.
Philips of Liverpool, General and Charles Stuart of Blantyre, Lord Abercromby, Clerk and Thomson. Pleasant evening. July 10. Corrected proofs, but wrote nothing. To Court till two o'clock. I went to Cadell's by the Mound, a long roundabout; transacted some business. I met Baron Hume coming home, and walked with him in the Gardens.
Hume have demonstrated, that such general ideas have no existence in nature, not even in the mind of their celebrated inventor.
And after Jerome had done this the phenomena had occurred in the library, not in the dining-room. "By Jove!" ejaculated General Hume, as I pointed this out. "This may be something more, you know, that mere coincidence!" Sir Henry said nothing, but continued his spading. He paid attention to nothing save the heap that Jerome had formed.
They were at the gorilla's mercy! One step forward and he would have struck the life out of them with a couple of blows, but fortunately habit was too strong for him, and he raised himself erect to give out his defiant challenge. A little man tugged at Mr. Hume, who stood transfixed with horror. Looking down, the hunter saw the haft of his Ghoorka knife. He acted at once.
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