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"If it hadn't been for the accident of Hylton being here, we should not have met now." "Captain Hylton had nothing to do with it," she said warmly. "I had no notion that you were at Clermont-Ferrand." "I'm quite aware of that, Lady Auriol." She flushed, vexed at having said a foolish thing. "And Captain Hylton had no notion that I was coming." "Perfectly," said Lackaday.

"But Colonel Lackaday has." She looked wide-eyed up into Lackaday's face. "Is that true?" I swear he blushed through his red sun-glaze. "Since Captain Hylton says so " She held out her hand with perfect manners and said: "I'm so glad. My congratulations." Then, before the bewildered Lackaday could reply, she tossed his hand to the winds.

Here we are, we three, and it is Andre, Horace, Elodie and here we are, we four, and it is Monsieur Bakkus, and Lackaday never will I be able to pronounce that word and Madame Patou and Monsieur le Capitaine Hylton. Look. To my friends I am Elodie tout court and you?" It was an embarrassing moment. Andrew's mug of a face was as expressionless as that of a sphinx.

Extract from the Civil War diary kept by Elphas P. Hylton, a Lawrence Co. volunteer in the Union Army. "On 17th of July I was detailed for picket duty and saw three thousand negro soldiers on a grand review, a black cloud to see. On the 18th I was relieved of duty. Here I became dissatisfied as a soldier on account of the negro, negro, negro.

Perrote listened in vain for any answer. Psalm seventy-two, verses 4, 5, 8, 12, 13, 18, 19; Hereford and Purvey's version, 1381-8. Romans six, verse 16; Wycliffe's version, 1382. "Where we disavow Being keeper to our brother, we're his Cain." Elizabeth Barrett Browning. "Hylton, thou art weary gear!" "What ails me?" "What ails thee, forsooth? Marry, but that's as good a jest as I heard this year!

The discovery of Ricarda's deception was the only solution of this remark which presented itself to Amphillis, but her natural caution stood her in good stead, and she merely inquired her companion's meaning. "Hast not seen that she laboureth to catch Master Hylton into her net?" Thoughts, which were not all pleasant, chased one another through the mind of Amphillis.

Hylton politely; 'that is energetic of him, indeed! 'Poor dear Tumps came home so proud of your approval, said Jessie to Ella, 'and we were awfully relieved to find you didn't think we'd made the house quite too dreadful weren't we, Carrie? 'Yes, indeed, Jessie.

Flossie was standing at the window, from which a glimpse could just be caught of fresh green foliage and the lodge-gates, with the bustle of the traffic in the High Street beyond; Mrs. Hylton was writing at a Flemish bureau in the corner. 'I suppose, said Flossie meditatively, as she fingered a piece of old stained glass that was hanging in the window, 'we shall have George here this afternoon.

"Saying thy prayers to the moon, Hylton? or to the White Lady?" asked a voice behind him. "Neither, Godfrey. I was marvelling wherefore she is mewed up there. Dost know?" "I know she was a full wearisome woman to my Lord Duke her son, and that he is a jollier man by the acre since she here dwelt." "Was she his own mother?" asked Norman.

Jack, now thoroughly recovered, called almost daily at Bassett Road, and would often bring Muriel to the Cecil to tea or to luncheon. Often I inquired the whereabouts of her father and of Hylton Chater, but she declared herself in entire ignorance, and believed they were abroad.