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By some curious attraction he felt drawn to that downtown region where his kinsman's office was. This part of the city he had not properly explored. It was a world wholly different from Fifth Avenue. There was none of that sense of space and luxury he had known on the wide slopes of Murray Hill.
If once Elizabeth were overthrown by a Catholic rising, and a Catholic policy established in England, Scotch Protestantism was at an end. At the first rumour of the match therefore Murray drew Argyle and the Hamiltons round him in a band of self-defence, and refused his signature to a paper recommending Darnley as husband to the Queen.
HUGH MURRAY: To-morrow, next week, next month, you may be happy but what of the time when those wild oats thrust their ears through the very seams of the floor trodden by the wife whose respect you will have learned to covet! You may drag her into the crowded streets there is the same vile growth springing up from the chinks of the pavement!
After all there is not enough of it to prevent his being the best of the lot." "He could not hold her a week," said Mrs. Murray; "nor she him." "I own that on his wedding day he would probably be in Dakota flirting with the bones of a fossil monkey," said Mr. Dudley thoughtfully; "but what better can you suggest?"
He had simply been made to suffer for something that had nothing to do with his own person. "Hey, twins," a classmate yelled at them just then. "I suppose you couldn't help it," Keith said weakly to Murray. "I really should have liked to have you," Murray answered, and it made Keith feel as if he had been more than compensated for his previous sufferings.
Murray missed him much herself and it pleased her to be sure that Christine did also. Sometimes he would come late after a dinner, and if it were only a brief half-hour that he spent with them it made the evening seem a success, instead of a failure. After a little while Mrs.
Captain Murray turned off at once into a side street, and rode beside Frank for some distance, respecting in silence his young companion's grief, hardly a word passing till they reached the Guards' stables and left their horses, which looked, by the light of the men's lanthorns, as if they had passed through a river.
It is sufficient, however, to state that there was no Lodge of the Ancient and Accepted Scotch Rite in Singapore at the time of his visit. But the imposition does not end here; Dr Bataille does not merely describe what took place at a lodge which was not in existence he gives particulars of an address delivered by a certain Dr Murray at a meeting attended by himself.
"I don't mind his stringing the City Council and the saloons, and even the Ladies' Guild," he growled, "but when he steals the licorice and slate-pencils from the kids it's time he was stopped." Murray agreed. "I think we are about done with Gordon. He has led his ace." "I'm not sure. This is a kind of popular uprising, like a camp- meeting.
As Mrs. Murray came in, she nodded to her young protegee, and approached the table, saying: "Good morning! It seems I am the laggard to-day, but Nicholas had mislaid the flower shears, and detained me. Hereafter I shall turn over this work of dressing vases to you, child. My son, this is your birthday, and here is your button-hole souvenir."
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