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I said to them: "Children, remember that to-day you have danced to the playing of Monsieur Auber, the most celebrated composer in France. Such a thing is an event, and you must remember it and tell it to your children." Miss Adelaide Philips is here singing, but, alas! without the success she deserves.
Brandon looked earnestly at Beatrice as she stood there before him, calm, sad, passionless, almost repellent in her demeanor, and wondered what the cause might be of such a change. Mrs. Compton stood apart at a little distance, near Philips, and looked on with a strange expression, half wistful, half timid. There was a silence which at length became embarrassing.
"That's true, Thomas; and certainly it wouldn't be worth while your going up to London on such a mere chance or possibility; but it suggests itself to me that, if Lydia Philips would like the situation which the doctor has to offer, and he is willing to take her on my recommendation, it would be a great satisfaction to me if you would, at my expense, go with her and see her safe to London, and introduce her to Dr Prosser, and you could then take the opportunity of asking his servants about the bag.
Philips shook his head. "Then you see that the man whom you fear is not so powerful as some others." "I thought you were his friend?" "Do you know who I am?" "Smithers & Co.," said Philips, wearily. "Well, let me tell you the plans of Smithers & Co. are beyond your comprehension.
The first to make an offer for her was that same portly Moor who had sought to purchase the two Nubeans. He rose to scrutinize her closely, and must have been satisfied, for the price he offered was a good one, and he offered it with contemptuous assurance that he would not be outbidden. "One hundred philips for the milk-faced girl." "'Tis not enough.
In Mississippi M.W. Philips' woman Amy had borne eleven children when at the age of thirty she was married by her master to a new husband, and had eight more thereafter, including a set of triplets.
"Thou wrongest me, Warwick," said the king, carelessly; "Dame Cook was awry, Dame Philips a grandmother, Dame Jocelyn had lost her front teeth, and Dame Waer saw seven ways at once! But thou forgettest, man, the occasion of those honours, the eve before Elizabeth was crowned, and it was policy to make the city of London have a share in her honours.
Stubmore did not seem to grow more distant at Philip's narration. "Understand you perfectly, my man. Brought up with them 'ere fine creturs, how could you nail your nose to a desk? I'll take you without more palaver. What's your name?" "Philips." "Come to-morrow, and we'll settle about wages. Sleep here?" "No. I have a brother whom I must lodge with, and for whose sake I wish to work.
He had great sensibility of censure, if judgment may be made by a single story which I heard long ago from Mr. Ing, a gentleman of great eminence in Staffordshire. "Philips," said he, "was once at table, when I asked him, 'How came thy king of Epirus to drive oxen, and to say, "I'm goaded on by love"? After which question he never spoke again."
He got up at once. 'Oh, he said, 'I thought it was Rosario. 'It isn't, I replied, 'my name is Philips. May I ask whether you were expecting Mr. Rosario? I can come again, you know. 'Oh, it doesn't matter. Sit down. He may drop in or he may not I rather thought he would today. It's a pull up, isn't it, from the Mall? Have a whisky and soda. I stood on the threshold spellbound.
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