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There they discovered Hanson's mount. "Why here's the trader's pony," remarked Baynes. "He's probably down visiting with the foreman," said Meriem. "Pretty late for him, isn't it?" remarked the Hon. Morison. "I'd hate to have to ride back through that jungle at night to his camp." As though to give weight to his apprehensions the distant lion roared again. The Hon.
"Of course not," she replied. "It will be lovely." As they made their way stirrup to stirrup across the plain the Hon. Morison caught himself many times watching the girl's regular profile and wondering if his eyes had deceived him or if, in truth, he really had seen this lovely creature consorting with grotesque baboons and conversing with them as fluently as she conversed with him.
Perhaps she will be there with you, Maurice." "I thought," Mr. Staggchase observed, "that old Mrs. Morison didn't approve of Mrs. Wilson." "Nobody approves of Elsie," was Mrs. Staggchase's calm reply. "I'm sure I don't; but after all she is a sort of cousin of Berenice, and she can't very well refuse to visit her. Really, there is nothing bad about Elsie.
He seemed closer and dearer now than ever he had before, and she wondered that her heart had drifted so far from loyalty to his memory. And then came the image of the Hon. Morison, the exquisite, and Meriem was troubled. Did she really love the flawless young Englishman? She thought of the glories of London, of which he had told her in such glowing language.
Well, others had sought Malbihn for similar reasons in the course of a long and checkered career. He fingered his rifle, and waited. Now the canoe was within easy speaking distance of the shore. "What do you want?" yelled Malbihn, raising his weapon threateningly. The Hon. Morison Baynes leaped to his feet.
Still, as I say, neither Yodel nor Morison nor anyone thought about there being an accident until just after sundown when they
"Mercy on us! what's this?" she cried when she saw her master. But she wasted no time in words; she hurried away and soon returned with a basin of water and a sponge, and a bottle of spirits, which she held under the doctor's nose an old-fashioned but often efficacious remedy. "We maun hae Dr. Morison," she said; "an' how we're to come by him beats me. "I'll go," said Marjory decidedly. "What?
Jean Chrysostome, etc.; Church, Life of Anselm; MORISON, Life and Times of St. General Character of the Period. ROBERTSON, A View of the Progress of Society in Europe from the Subversion of the Roman Empire, etc. Scott's novels, Ivanhoe, The Talisman, Anne of Geierstein: they are historically much less correct pictures than his romances which relate to Scotland. Particular Aspects of the Period.
She drew from the folds of her handkerchief the little grotesque mask which she had pinned upon her lover's cassock at the Mardi Gras ball. Maurice flushed hotly at the sight. "You are determined, Miss Morison, to spare me no humiliation in your power." "Humiliation?" she echoed. "Why, I was humiliating myself. Seriously, Mr.
Also in Hertfordshire are Cassiobury, the seat of the Earls of Essex, whose ancestor, Lord Capel, who was beheaded in 1648 for his loyalty to King Charles I., brought the estate into the family by his marriage with Elizabeth Morison; and Knebworth, the home of Lord Lytton the novelist, which has been the home of his ancestors since the time of Henry VII., when it was bought by Sir Robert Lytton.
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