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Mona brought the dress a rich, heavy net, made over handsome black silk, which had been among her wardrobe for the previous summer, when she went to Lenox with her uncle. "That will be just the thing, only it needs something to relieve its blackness," said Mrs. Montague, while she mentally wondered at the richness of the costume.
"I didn't come to New York to bury myself in a boarding-house," she said. "I do want to meet people." "Well," said Montague, "Oliver knows a lot of them, and he will introduce you. Perhaps you will like them I don't know. I am sure you won't have any difficulty in making them like you." "Thank you, sir," said Lucy. "You are as ingenuous as ever!"
One of her old students, Annie Kimball Tuell, of the class of 1896, herself an instructor in the Department of English Literature, writes: I think Miss Montague would wish that another of her pupils, one who worked with her for an unusually long time, should say what can most simply and most warmly and most gratefully be said that she was a good teacher.
The directors named Evan Montague, the able city editor of the Post, to fill the new position, while promoting the strongest of the reporters to fill the city desk. The chairman, Stewart Byrd, then announced that he was ready to receive nominations for, or hear discussion about, the editorship. One of the directors, Mr.
King William had no regard to elegance or literature; his study was only war; yet by a choice of Ministers, whose disposition was very different from his own, he procured, without intention, a very liberal patronage to poetry. Addison was caressed both by Somers and Montague.
"They had reason," he said, "to suppose me lost to them forever, because I had gone to a country from which no Foulah had ever returned." When Moore, from whose narrative these particulars are extracted, left Africa, he was charged with letters from Job, who remained at Joar, to Oglethorpe, Bluet, the Duke of Montague, his principal benefactors, and to the Royal African Company.
As Montague listened to this series of broad hints, and took in the meaning of them, the colour mounted, to his cheeks until at last he rose abruptly and bid the man good afternoon. But then as he sat alone, his anger died away, and there was left only discomfort and uneasiness. And three or four days later he bought another issue of the paper, and sure enough, there was a new paragraph!
"Are you in a hurry," she asked carelessly. "A lot of these people will be going presently." "My message is urgent," he said firmly. "If you cannot listen to me now it must remain undelivered." She shrugged her shoulders and led him towards a small recess. "So you come from Anna, do you?" she remarked. "Well, what is it?" "Montague Hill is recovering consciousness," he said.
It was only necessary to guard against the danger lest a Portuguese alliance might involve England in a war with Spain, Charles was attracted by the offers, and all the more so when he received from Montague now Earl of Sandwich a favourable account of the value of Tangier.
"You know, they didn't know he was Montague Fitzmaurice, the great Shakespearean actor. Pa often takes such jobs. He ain't lazy like Aunt Suse says. Why, once he took a job as a ballyhoo at a show on the Bowery in Coney Island. But his voice ain't never been what it was since." "Do you expect him to return here for you?"
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