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Whatever threatened in the immediate future, she determined to meet it with as much composure as she could summon. Nobody but Sheila Macklin knew wholly what she had endured since leaving her childhood's home. When Tunis Latham had come so dramatically into her life she had been almost at the limit of her endurance. To him, even, she had not confessed all her miseries.
Anyhow, we can risk going to supper together." "Well, somewhere to a quiet place. Don't take me where you are known, Captain Latham." "No?" He was puzzled again. "But, then, I am not known anywhere in Boston." "All the better. I ought not to lend myself in any way to making you possible future trouble." "I do not understand you, Miss Macklin."
Blest with unwieldiness, at least his size Will favour find in every critic's eyes; And should his humour, and his mimic art, Bear due proportion to his outer part, As once 'twas said of Macklin in the Jew, 'This is the very Falstaff Shakspeare drew. To you, with diffidence, he bids me say, Should you approve, you may command his stay, To lie and swagger here another day.
Nobody not even the girl herself could shake this determination now born in the mind of the captain of the Seamew. Sheila had borne his reputation upon her heart from the beginning, but he should have at first thought of her good name and the opinion the world must needs hold of Sheila Macklin. She had been unfairly accused. She had been abused, ill-treated, punished for a sin which was not hers.
"Now, was not I right when I told you, Harrington, that I would introduce you to the most celebrated Jew in all England, in all Christendom, in the whole civilized world?" No one better than Mowbray knew the tone of enthusiastic theatric admiration in which the heroes of the stage like, or are supposed to like, to be addressed. Macklin, who was not asy to please, was pleased.
Oldfield, and, previously, a similar kindness to Robert Wilks, about the year 1690, at the salary of fifteen shillings a week, with two shillings and sixpence deducted for teaching him to dance. Another famous performer, Macklin, was also introduced to the stage by this family.
A convenient introduction to the study of monumental brasses, with illustrations and a list of all the surviving brasses in England, arranged according to counties, is W. Macklin, Monumental Brasses . See also H. Druitt, Costume on Brasses . These books also give details as to the famous early writers on the subject, such as Weaver, Holman, and A.J. Dunkin.
I put my hat back on my head, saluted her and passed her quickly. "Captain Macklin," she cried. "What is it? What have I said?" She stretched out her hand toward me, but I did not stop. "Captain Macklin!" she called after me in such a voice that I was forced to halt and turn. "What are you going to do?" she demanded. "Oh, yes, I see," she exclaimed. "I see how it sounded to you.
Or to prepare the Balls, for instance, for the coming of this new claimant? And who knew this girl who said she was Ida May Bostwick? Sheila Macklin was fully aware of the history of Sarah Honey, of her marriage which had quite cut her off from her Cape Cod friends, and of the little that was known at Big Wreck Cove about her daughter, who, since babyhood, had never been seen here.
Even to a trained social leader it must be trying to have a man presented to you on a sidewalk as the one who did not shoot your son. Mrs. Fiske had a toy dog under one arm, and was holding up her train, but she slipped the dog to the groom, and gave me her hand. "How do you do, Mr. Captain Macklin," she said. "My son has told me a great deal about you.
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