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There was a glimpse of the white road, too, and the blue smoke from the chimneys of Maplehurst was plainly visible. The evening sunshine was streaming full on Gladys's pale face, and my first action after kissing her was to lower the blind. I was glad of the excuse for turning away a moment, for her appearance gave me quite a shock. She looked as though she had been ill for weeks.
But as she looked into Kennedy's eyes she read there that he had long since fathomed the secret of her wildly beating heart, that if she would accomplish the purpose of saving the Baron she must stop at nothing. "At Maplehurst," she answered in a low tone, dropping her eyes from his penetrating gaze, "Professor Annenberg's home out on Long Island."
For blocks, from Benson to Maplehurst and from Maplehurst to Ridgeway Heights, Winchester Road repeats itself in terms of the butcher, the baker, the corner saloon. A feed-store. A monument- and stone-cutter. A confectioner. A general-merchandise store, with a glass case of men's collars outside the entrance. The butcher, the baker, the corner saloon.
She went out with Lester Goldmark in his little flivver, and I get nervous about automobiles." Mr. Bauer slid an open-face watch from his waistcoat. "Good Lord, five-forty, and I've just got time to sell the Maplehurst Emporium a bill of goods!" "Good-night, Milt; and mind you put up that order of assorted neckwear yourself.
Louis begins to peter out into brick-and limestone-kilns and great scars of unworked and overworked quarries, the first and more unpretentious of its suburbs take up Benson, Maplehurst, and Ridgeway Heights intervening with one-story brick cottages and two-story packing-cases between the smoke of the city and the carefully parked Queen Anne quietude of Glenwood and Croton Grove.
There was nothing in his manner to recall our stormy interview on the previous evening. Perhaps he wished to efface the recollection from my memory, for there was something significant in his smile, as though we perfectly understood each other. I had lain awake for a long time thinking over Mrs. Maberley's talk and that uncomfortable walk from Maplehurst. Mr.
Most of the Weald villages, however, bear still more woodland titles Midhurst, Farnhurst, Nuthurst, Maplehurst, and Lamberhurst; Cuckfield, Mayfield, Rotherfield, Hartfield, Heathfield, and Wivelsfield; Crawley, Cowfold, Loxwood, Linchmere, and Marden.
I put off my visit to Phoebe until the evening, and walked up to Gladwyn with Jill; she and Lady Betty were going for a walk, and were to have tea with the Maberleys. I learned afterwards that Mr. Tudor met them quite accidentally about three miles from Heathfield, and had accompanied them to Maplehurst, where he made himself so pleasant to the old lady that he was pressed to remain. Oh, Mr.
She is rather too fond of gossiping about her neighbours, though she does it in the kindest manner. May I ask if her talk this evening at all related to a family not a hundred miles away from Maplehurst? His voice sounded hard and satirical in the darkness. 'I wish you would not ask me such a question, Mr. Hamilton, I returned, much distressed.
'Oh, I am so much obliged to you, but I am ashamed to give you the trouble; only for poor Flossie's sake, hesitating, 'will you come into the carriage and let me drive you to Maplehurst? And to this I readily consented. I could never bear to see an animal in pain, and the little creature, a beautiful brown-and-white spaniel, was already licking my hand confidingly. I could see Mrs.
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