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Between the branches of the trees the sky showed intense and cold, the crescent moon, above a black mass of mountains, golden and sharp, the lights in the valley near enough to be gathered. "If there should be war," asked Allan, "what will they do, all the Virginians in the army Lee and Johnston and Stuart, Maury and Thomas and the rest?" "They'll come home." "Resigning their commissions?"
Anthony hesitated between a smile and a frown. "He looks sort of funny to me. Weird-looking clothes" he paused "I've got a sneaking suspicion you two picked him up somewhere last night." "Ridiculous," declared Maury. "Why, I've known him all my life." However, as he capped this statement with another series of chuckles, Anthony was impelled to remark: "The devil you have!"
She gave a sigh which I took as meaning that the more we should see each other, the harder the parting would be at last, but she said, tremulously: "We shall meet at supper, monsieur, and to-morrow, when you conduct me on to Maury."
No book that has of late years issued from the press treats more eloquently and interestingly of such subjects of inquiry than that admirable work of Captain Maury of the United States Navy, entitled "The Physical Geography of the Sea." Much of the substance of what we have written has been culled from the pages of that fascinating volume.
I do not remember to have seen in any English print an anecdote on this subject, which at once marks the levity of the Parisians, and the wit and presence of mind of the Abbe Maury.
A letter to Morse, who was just then in Washington, received an enthusiastic and encouraging reply, coupled with the information that Lieutenant Maury of the Navy had, by a series of careful soundings, established the existence of a plateau between Ireland and Newfoundland, at no very great depth, which seemed expressly designed by nature to receive and carefully guard a telegraphic cable. Mr.
Later, just before dinner, while Maury and Dick were conversing uproariously, with Joe Hull listening in silence as he sipped his drink, Gloria drew Anthony into the dining room: "I don't like this man Hull," she said. "I wish he'd use Tana's bathtub." "I can't very well ask him to." "Well, I don't want him in ours." "He seems to be a simple soul." "He's got on white shoes that look like gloves.
It is unnecessary to enrich the pages of this folio with all the footnotes and remarks of, the sages of Brampton. These can be condensed into a paragraph of two and we can ring up the curtain when we like on the next scene, for which Brampton had to wait considerably over a month. There is to be no villain in this drama with the face of an Abbe Maury like the seven cardinal sins.
Walter Mason brought a man here to-night who is thinking of building a house on Long Island. Walter tells me he went away quite won over." She was all interest at once. "Why didn't you tell me? I might have made a special effort to be nice to him." "Oh, he had a good time," he said carelessly. "I say, Myra, your friend Miss Maury is fascinating. Sings divinely."
"Here's a health to King Charles, Here's a health to King Charles, Bring the bowl that you boast " MAURY: Fill the cup, Frederick. You know everything's subordinated to nature's purposes with us, and her purpose with you is to make you a rip-roaring tippler. PARAMORE: If a fellow can drink like a gentleman MAURY: What is a gentleman, anyway? ANTHONY: A man who never has pins under his coat lapel.
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