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She was at a tea this afternoon and ate too many sandwiches." "Humph!" Mitchell sniffed, playfully. "You know that wasn't it. She asked Jincy to bring something up to her. She told me she simply would not break in on you two this first evening." "Father is getting to be a great tease, Dick," Irene smiled. "The money he has made lately has fairly turned his head. Please don't notice him."
Mitchell, "we have the evidence of a boatman whose boat passed Camden Bridge at 10:40 P. M., that the bridge was properly shut after he passed." "True." "Well, after that I cannot see any doubt as to the complicity of the guard." The police-officer shook his head gently, but continuously. "Then you don't attribute the crime to the natives?" "Not at all." "To whom then?"
It was evident that Mitchell, making his way along the ridge in darkness or fog, had fallen off. Big Tom brought his companions to the place, and on consultation it was decided to leave the body undisturbed till Mitchell's friends could be present.
She doesn't usually when she is away." "It is the very Old Nick in you both!" Mitchell sniffed. "I don't expect you to know or care what she's up to; but I'm her own flesh and blood, and supposed to be interested more or less. Home is lonely enough when she is here in town, without her being off so much. Besides, I know some things humph! Well, I'm no fool, if I am a back number.
"Oh, very much better," said Mitchell. "It is the exceptions that furnish all the oil in life’s machinery. The exceptions not only generally prove too much for the rule, but they also generally prevent the rule from proving too much for us. They—" "But I don’t see why we couldn’t go to two or three vaudevilles to-night, too," said the old lady, suddenly. "I feel so sort of ready-for-anythin’."
Mitchell never failed to regale her with a superior sort of cooky, and often with a covert peppermint, and that although the Mitchells were not well off. The old place was mortgaged, and Miss Mitchell had hard work to pay the interest.
'This march had been carefully kept secret, says Mitchell; 'and it was the opinion of the most experienced Officers, that, had the Enemy discovered the King of Prussia's design, they might, by placing their light troops in the roads with proper supports, have rendered it extremely difficult, if not impracticable."
Sir Thomas Mitchell himself tells us, that every river he traced on his recent journey, excepting the Victoria, disappointed him, by turning to that point and entering a sandy country.
One evening, when Fergus had been sent with an order to a portion of the force lying some miles away, Sir John Mitchell said to the king: "I have been talking with the Earl Marischal over young Drummond's affairs, your majesty. As you know, his father's estates were sequestrated after the battle of Culloden, where he himself fell.
Owen Wister, whose fresh and vigorous work I have mentioned; and of Dr. Weir Mitchell, a novelist of power long known to the better public, and now recognized by the larger in the immense success of his historical romance, Hugh Wynne.
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