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Prime's premises, when I suddenly met Mrs. Ellis coming from the kitchen, with a bowl of gruel in her hand. She was acquainted with all the particulars of the accident, and had been a witness to my expulsion from the house.
When I asked him about the particulars of his voyage, he answered that their ship was bound from the Rio de la Plata to the Havannah; that when the ship was lost, only five men perished in the ocean; the rest having saved themselves in the boat, were now landed on the main continent.
This last assertion, they add, was made after a careful examination by them of the history itself. The sixth point was whether the review was true or not in its essential facts; and if untrue, in what particulars. The seventh point was whether the review was written in a spirit of impartiality and justice. The majority decided that it was not so written. Here again Mr. Foot made a partial dissent.
"No, indeed. I left that hospitable house more than a week ago. I set myself free." "Oh, is that the case? I ask your pardon. When I saw you here, I naturally supposed your liberation was a result of what has just occurred. I haven't yet learned all particulars of the event." "What event? I don't understand you." "Then you don't know what has been going on at Lavardin recently?" "Not I."
"I wonder I didn't think of it myself." "Think of what?" inquired Mr. Price. "You'll soon know," said Mr. Spriggs, "and you've only got yourself to thank for it." Uncle Gussie sniffed suspiciously; Mrs. Spriggs pressed for particulars. "I've got out of the difficulty," said her husband, drawing his chair to the tea-table. "Nobody'll suffer but Gussie." "Ho!" said that gentleman, sharply.
"I read it after you left last night, and I've come to the conclusion that there's something in it that may be of use to us." "Us!" Curtis ejaculated. "Yes! Us!" Hamar mimicked. "It contains full particulars of how we can get in touch with certain Occult Powers that can give us money or anything else we want!" "Rot, of course!" Curtis said. "You say that now. But, listen to me," Hamar replied.
It begins with these words: "Yesterday being the Lord's day, at six in the morning I had the pleasure of receiving yours at Nortonick; and it proved a Sabbath day's blessing to me. Then, after the mention of some other particulars, he adds: "Blessed and adored for ever be the holy name of my Heavenly Father, who holds my soul in life, and my body in perfect health!
S saw at a glance that the suppliant was an object of real charity, and instantly complied with his request. Without asking further particulars, he gave him a good bed, sent him up a bowl of hot soup, and bade him not distress himself about the future, but try and get a good night's rest. The next day, the young man was too ill to leave his chamber. Mr. S sent for old Dr.
But by far the most fruitless effort of all would be to construct beforehand out of his words the particulars of the historical course of the future. Attempts of this kind have been defeated whenever they have been made.
Here was another case wherein it was desirable, for obvious reasons, that the name, nationality, and other particulars of the ship should be ascertained; and this, of course, could only be done by boarding her.
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