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Well, as we're all pals here and the meeting's tiled and so forth, I'll start by saying that the mater is most deucedly set on my marrying Lady Maud. Been pals all our lives, you know. Children together, and all that sort of rot.
"Young gentleman, this is not well," he said. "By what authority have you absented yourself from the walls of Alma Mater during term-time?" "I conceived that it was unnecessary to ask leave at such a conjuncture, and when the head of the institution was himself in the saddle," replied Edward. "It was a fault, it was a fault," said Dr.
And the boy, bound by his word to Captain Hindford, was forced to go out in search of a dead man. He felt the horror of this quest. To-day Mrs. Errington carried her purse in her hand, and looked eagerly out for the beggar. Once she fancied she saw him in the distance. "There he is!" she cried to Horace. "Run and fetch him." The boy turned pale, and stared. "Where, Mater?" "Among those trees."
Those fellows ought to be here before this. The Mater will be in a stew. She ordered dinner at five, as the youngsters dine with us, of course, to-day, and it's past that now." "Hush! will you? I'll vow that cab is stopping! Yes!
We didn't say anything to the mater and Edna, but he knows that you and I are friends, and that I will listen to what you say. He means to ask you to persuade me to stay at home. But you understand how I feel, Norah?" "Yes, Rex. Don't be afraid! If your father speaks to me I shall advise him to let you go. You have kept your share of the bargain: it is for him to keep his," said Norah steadily.
"Please don't say any more, mater. You have upset me for the day. Really, you have for the whole day." But his mother was not to be shaken so easily in her determination. She went on: "She has the breeding of my sister Angela, dear." "You wouldn't think it to watch her and listen to her. Now, once and for all" and he tried to pass his mother and go into the garden. There was no escape. Mrs.
Errol. "You come right along to my room first." "What for?" He stood motionless, suffering her restraining hands, the beginning of a smile about his lips. "There's something I've got to tell you," she said. "Lead the way then, alma mater!" he said. "I am very much at your service." Mrs. Errol turned without further words, and he, with her sables flung across his shoulder, prepared to follow.
Sitting in the dark, Mother? 'I was just trying to cheer up Mr. Allport; he is very despondent. 'Pray do not overlook me, said Mr. Allport, rising and bowing. 'Well! I did not see you! Fancy your sitting in the twilight chatting with the mater. You must have been an unscrupulous bore, maman. 'On the contrary, replied Mr. Allport, 'Mrs.
When god and stone stand together in a community, both revered, they may be and generally are combined into a cultic unity: the stone becomes the symbol or the abode or the person of the god. It was, doubtless, in some such way as this that a stone came to be identified with the Magna Mater of Pessinus.
After haunting Bursley for a fortnight in elegant black, Cyril said, without any warning, one night: "I must go the day after to- morrow, mater." And he told her of a journey to Hungary which he had long since definitely planned with Matthew Peel-Swynnerton, and which could not be postponed, as it comprised 'business. He had hitherto breathed no word of this. He was as secretive as ever.
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