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"I suppose so," assented Peel-Swynnerton. The conversation fell for a few moments. "Staying here long?" Mr. Mardon demanded, having added up Peel- Swynnerton as a man of style and of means, and being puzzled by his presence at that table. "I don't know," said Peel-Swynnerton. This was a lie, justified in the utterer's opinion as a repulse to Mr.
I came around here just as usual, because well because " Tony's gift for remembering faces and facts amounts to genius. With two deft movements he whisked two papers from among the many in the rack, and held them out. "Kewaskum Courier?" he suggested. "Nix," said Mercedes Meron, "I'll take a Chicago Scream." "London Times?" said Tony. "No," replied Guy Peel. "Give me the San Antonio Express."
How did you happen to have the idea of getting a dog?" Mrs. Appleboy turned the full moon of her homely countenance upon the court. "The potato peel came down that way!" she explained blandly. "What!" exploded the dealer in rubber novelties. "The potato peel it spelled 'dog," she repeated artlessly. "Lord!" deeply suspirated Pepperill. "What a case! Carry me out!" "Well, Mr.
But his young French wife was about to become a mother, and she shrank from the perils of his life abroad, so he took her to his father's house at Peel, and bade her farewell for five years. He lived four, and during that time they exchanged some letters. At the end of the first year she wrote: "I have shortened our darling, and you never saw anything so lovely!
Pour off the clear liquor on three ounces more of shalots, and let the wine stand on them ten days longer. An ounce of scraped horseradish may be added to the above, and a little lemon peel cut thin. This is rather the most expensive, but by far the most elegant preparation of shalot.
Although eminently accessible and open in the ordinary converse of society, he was in reality a reserved man; not shy, stiff, and externally cold, like Peel, nor always standing on a pedestal of dignity, like the younger Pitt, but revealing his deepest thoughts only to a very few intimate friends, and treating all others with a courteous friendliness which, though it put them quickly at their ease, did not encourage them to approach any nearer.
Peel stand at the table answering a question connected with his department; but I noticed him only because he was the youngest son of the great Sir Robert Peel, and was a striking contrast to his brother Robert, a flamboyant personage who at that time filled considerable space below the gangway. In addition to Mr.
Sing 'John Peel, won't you?" "Please sing 'John Peel'!" echoed The Seraph. The Bishop seemed loath to sing "John Peel." It was years since he had sung it, he said; he had almost forgotten the words. But when Margery joined her persuasions to ours, he consented to sing just one verse and the chorus. "D'ye ken John Peel, with his coat so grey? D'ye ken John Peel, at the break of day?
Sir Robert Peel, in whose ministry of 1841-6 the system probably reached perfection, laid it down that nine was the maximum number for efficiency, because not more than about nine men can sit round a table in full view of one another, all taking a real share in every discussion.
Trees, washed out by the roots from the soft soil, filled the bed of this river in many places. There was abundance of cod-fish of a small size, as well as of the two other kinds of fish which we had caught in the Peel, the Nammoy, and the Gwydir. The name of this river, as well as we could make it out from the natives, was Karaula.
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