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"You've learned the custom of the place," said Lacey, as he saw the gold piece glitter in the brown palm of the orderly. "I suppose the man's only pay is in such service," rejoined David. "It is a land of backsheesh. The fault is not with the people; it is with the rulers. I am not sorry to share my goods with the poor." "You'll have a big going concern here in no time," observed Lacey.
Miss Derwent is never in, unless it storms the way it did yesterday, and then she's liable to be in oilskins hanging on to some rock and scaring me out of my seven senses. Sylvia's just like her. They were both out yesterday." "I'm glad to learn that your niece is strong enough for that," returned Dunham. Miss Lacey made a gesture. "She did it, anyway."
Moreover, both Edith and Mrs. Lacey were sadly deficient in the doctrines, neither having ever had any religious instruction, and they listened with the grave, earnest interest of those desiring to be taught. Mrs. Groody reconnected herself with her old church "I want to go where I can shout 'Glory!" she said. Rose but faintly sympathized with her mother's feelings.
But when he's in certain stages of insobriety his fighting instincts appear to take their own sweet way. At other times, Lacey writes, he is as interesting as ever and men sit round eagerly and listen to him talk. At others he simply disappears. Did I tell you he had come into a little money just recently?" "No, you did not. Why doesn't he start a newspaper?"
She was following in her thoughts the steps of the Magi from the East to where, as yet far distant, the "Star of Bethlehem" glimmered with promise and hope. When Edith rose the next morning she found Laura only at her mother's bedside. Mrs. Lacey had gone home quite early, saying that she would soon come again. Mrs.
Then he proved a tough customer to have to deal with. "And so you will not stay with Captain Lacey, Jerry?" said Sir Richard one day. "No, S'Richard. I'd do anything for him, sir; and, as for his dear lady, she knows as I'd be her slave, but I seem to belong to you, sir, and, as you're going out to Indy, I feel as if I must go too, and so I volunteers."
Some years ago, when the firm of Douglas, Lacey & Company was reaping its harvest, an inspector was assigned to investigate the concern's operations. He was one of the ablest inspectors of the service, a man with real detective ability and a knowledge of the devious ways of certain kinds of financing.
But Sir George's anticipations were not fulfilled, for when the meal was finished De la Zouch had not appeared. "He may have met with an accident?" suggested Manners. "I rather think Sir Henry is afraid of me," stammered old Sir John de Lacey, as he buried his face in the last tankard of ale. "Then he were wise indeed to stay away," added Sir Thomas Stanley, with a sly wink.
"No, not that one. Something to do with a power supply." "Power supply. Oh!" His frown faded and became a smile. "You mean the crackpot with his little suitcase." Thorn looked startled, and Captain Lacey said: "That's the one." "Sure I remember," said the colonel. "What about it?" "Oh, nothing," Lacey said with elaborate unconcern, "I just thought Mr.
This American was going to conquer like Cortez, but his name was Thomas Tilman Lacey, and he had a lot of gall. After years of earnest effort, he lost his hair and the millions of the Infatuated Conquistadores. And by-and-by he came to Cairo with a thimbleful of income, and began to live again.
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