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"You haven't the ghost of a temperament, Herbert, you know you haven't." "He's got a lovely bedside manner," Lindsay remarked, "and that's the next thing to it." "Rubbish! I don't want to hurry you," Alicia glanced at the watch on her wrist, "but unless you and Herbert want to miss half the first act you had better be off.
"Miss Lindsay, I shall suffer none of your impertinence," said her mother; "leave the room, madam, this moment how dare you? but I am not surprised at it; leave the room, I say."
Lindsay was vexed by a similar uncertainty, but they agreed that the date was early in the month. "Did they get comfortably through the Canal? I remember being tied up there for forty-eight hours once." "I don't think she says, so I fancy it must have been all right. The voyage is bound to do her good. I've asked the Simpsons to watch particularly for any sign of malaria later, though.
We have said before that Lindsay was both a popular landlord and a popular magistrate; and, on this account alone the disposition to do honor to any member of his family was recognized by the people as an act of gratitude and duty. The town of Rathfillan presented a scene of which we who live in the present day can form but a faint conception.
I have a pair of Angolas for you, but the man from whom I bought them advised me not to remove them until all danger of cold weather had passed, as they are quite young." "Thank you, Mr. Lindsay. You are very kind to remember that I wished for them last year. I did not buy these "
"Confound the girl, I'll " At this point Mary, though portly, vanished like a vision of the night, and there stood in the doorway a smiling embodiment of the morning, crisp in a clean shirt-waist, and free from consciousness of crime. "Is it Governor Rudd?" asked Lindsay; and the Governor was, somehow, shaking hands like a kind and cordial host, and the bitterness was gone from his soul.
Alexander turned in his chair. "It's near sunset.... Now what, just, did you hear about Ian Rullock's going?" "We supposed that he would be here through the autumn certainly until after your return. Then, three days ago, comes Peter Lindsay with the note for you, and word that he was gone. Lindsay thought that he had received letters from great people and had gone to them for a visit."
They were all there, aridly complete, the limitations of the lady to whom she was helping Lindsay to bind himself without a gleam of possibility of escape or a rift through which tiniest hope could creep, to emerge smiling upon the other side.
Lindsay, "she lost in outward respectability she more than gained in mobility and usefulness. She kept herself untrammelled in the matter of dress that she might be ready for any emergency. In of a sudden call in the night to some distant village where twin children had been thrown out or a bloody quarrel was imminent, she was literally ready to leave at a moment's notice."
He said, 'Old Mickey-D will never know what became of his little charity-case!" As he quoted the line, he did his best to imitate the wartfrog's voice. "Please, Mr. Lindsay, you just have to believe me! I'm telling you the truth!" "Now, now," answered the troll voice, which was sounding less patient than before. "I know better.
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