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Its extreme points of latitude are 39 degrees and 10½ degrees S., and of longitude 112 degrees and 153 degrees 40 minutes E. from Greenwich, so that it includes in its huge extent climates both tropical and temperate, but none that are decidedly cold.
Passing the objects about her in review she gave especial attention to her rather marked wealth of books; changed repeatedly, for five minutes, the position of various volumes, transferred to tables those that were on shelves and rearranged shelves with an eye to the effect of backs.
After sitting for a few minutes at the table, playing with her spoon, she rose and ordered the servant to take the dinner away she had no appetite. The lamps were lighted in the drawing-room, and for some time she moved about the floor, pausing at times to take up a novel she had been reading from the table, only to throw it down again.
I want to go back to my mother! I don't want to go 'way from my mother!" Was it well to let her go back? Only a few minutes were left for them to be together. Was it kind or cruel to keep them apart? Uncertain, I looked at the group before me and saw Selwyn stoop and take the child, a little girl of five, up in his arms. "Your mother is going to sleep." His voice was low.
Time meant nothing at all to him, when this kind of work was in hand; and it was after what might be an hour or two hours, or ten minutes, that he heard a tap on his door. He uttered a sound without moving his eye, and the door opened. "Very sorry, sir," said his man, "but there's a party in the yard as won't "
The boss of that shop told me he wanted to see me take it around for a try-out, and then it was off and away for the front. He said considerately that I might wait a few minutes until another new arrival had done his little preliminary canter.
"Your aunt is far from punctual. You are sure she means to call?" "Sure," answered Tilda still hardily. "'Twelve-thirty' was her last words when she left me at the doctor's my 'ip bein' 'urt, sir, through tumblin' out of a nomnibus, three weeks ago. But you never can depend on 'er to a few minutes up 'an down. She gets into the streets, watchin' the fashions, an' that carries 'er away.
But the philosopher's composure was not to be shaken by any such trifle as the unexpected return of his eldest son. He could not have looked up more calmly from his learned volume if Frank had been absent for three minutes instead of three years. "Exactly what I predicted," said Mr. Clare. "Don't interrupt me by making explanations; and don't frighten the cat.
"Better go to bed, dear," said Lady Fermanagh recovering herself after a few minutes. "We are all suffering from the strain and are not normal.... Go to bed, Myra, and try to make up your mind to go back to England with Tony to-morrow...."
"Sam, do you want to visit the wreck? We can go and come by the time the things are cooked." "To be sure I'll go," said Sam; and in a few minutes more the two boys were off on the clumsy raft. "The Golden Wave looks like an old friend," said Sam as they paddled across the smooth waters of the bay. "Her coming here is the finest thing that could have happened," answered his brother.
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