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" Of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that were his eyes " The boy sat and looked up at the speaker, staring, shivering a little. "You know? You know too?" he stammered. "He knows nothin' about it," insisted Tilda. "Please go away, Mr. Mortimer?" "A young Shakespearian? This is indeed delightful! You shall have a part, sir.
For the use of the word civility, see ante ii. 155. See ante, i. 447. See ante, April 18, 1775. See post, April 15, 1778. It would not become me to expatiate on this strong and pointed remark, in which a very great deal of meaning is condensed. 'Mr. Wilkes's second political essay was an ironical dedication to the Earl of Bute of Ben Jonson's play, The Fall of Mortimer.
Then, running his thumb-nail swiftly along the edge of the box, he broke the paper wrapping, the box burst open and a shower of cigarettes fell to the ground. "So that's your Star of Poland, is it?" cried Behrend in a mocking voice. "Wot 'ave yer done wiv' the sparklers, eh?" demanded Max, catching Mortimer roughly by the arm.
With the same air of a recluse much given to study, he desisted from his books to bestow a distrustful nod of recognition upon Gaffer, plainly importing, 'Ah! we know all about YOU, and you'll overdo it some day; and to inform Mr Mortimer Lightwood and friends, that he would attend them immediately. 'A bull's-eye, said the Night-Inspector, taking up his keys.
My boy!" I cried. "What's the matter?" "Weren't you giving yourself rather a large family?" He shook his head moodily. "Was I?" he said, dully. "I don't know. What's bogey?" There was a silence. "And yet " he said, at last, in a low voice. He paused. An odd, bright look had come into his eyes. He seemed suddenly to be himself again, the old, happy Mortimer Sturgis I had known so well.
There was a pause and then Alexina said: "Mortimer is so determined to be a rich man and thinks of so little else and works so hard, that he is bound to be. Otherwise, such gifts would be meaningless." She made the statements with an unconscious rising inflection.
"Most impertinent of Swan," he heard the former say, to be arguing thus about political affairs in the presence of the children. And what Mr. Mortimer can be thinking of, inviting young Crayshaw to stay so much with them, I cannot imagine. We shall be having them turn republican next."
But if you listen to my story you may know what to do." I paused an instant to get a grip on my thoughts. I need not tell all, confess my identity, or mention my personal relations with the daughter. "I am a soldier, Colonel Mortimer, in Maxwell's Brigade, of Washington's army. What brought me here has nothing to do with the present story.
Mortimer Pegg seemed proud to walk with him. The following day was warm and sunny. When lessons were over we rushed to our bedroom window and to our joy we found that the window opposite was wide open, the wicker cage on the sill with the starling inside swelling up and preening himself in the sunshine, while just beyond sat Captain Pegg smoking a long pipe. He seemed delighted to see us.
As these invitations were rather in opposition to the then existing Greshamsbury tactics, the cause of Lady Arabella's special civility must be explained. Mr Mortimer Gazebee was now at the house, and therefore, it must be presumed, that things were not allowed to go on after their old fashion.
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