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Raikes begged permission to pronounce his excuses, but lapsed into a lamentation for the squandering of property bequeathed to him by his respected uncle, and for which as far as he was intelligible he persisted in calling the three offensive young cricketers opposite to account. Before he could desist, Harmony, no longer coy, burst on the assembly from three different sources.
Sighing, 'What a jolly old inn! Raikes rolled himself over in the sheets, and gave two or three snug jolts indicative of his determination to be comfortable while he could. 'Do you intend to carry on this folly, Jack? 'Say, sacrifice, was the answer. 'I feel it as much as you possibly could, Mr. Harrington. Hear the facts, Jack turned round again. 'Why did I consent to this absurdity?
But there were reasons for Nick's rare display of skill. Between his enjoyment of society and the melancholy it engendered in his mind by reflecting on him the age and decrepitude of his hat, Mr. John Raikes was doubtful of his happiness for some time.
The institution so named bore little resemblance to the Sunday-schools of the present day, but followed a plan which Robert Raikes and Mrs. Boys and girls were taught together. The master and mistress were paid the modest salary of two shillings a Sunday. More's tracts.
Crewe had got in his second speed and was sweeping around a corner lined with farmers' teams, whose animals were behaving like circus horses. On his own driveway, where he arrived in incredibly brief time, he met his stenographer, farm superintendent, secretary, housekeeper, and general utility man, Mr. Raikes. Mr. Raikes was elderly, and showed signs of needing a vacation. "Telephone Mr.
'I should be off the grounds in a hurry. 'And then I'm where I was before I met the horrid old brute! Raikes moaned. 'I told him over a pint of port-and noble stuff is that Aurora port! I told him I amused him till he was on the point of bursting I told him I was such a gentleman as the world hadn't seen minus money. So he determined to launch me.
At this juncture the singular drowsiness which had overtaken him so persistently in the past few days began to steep his dulling senses. Warned by its approach, Raikes began to put into execution a newly conceived plan of retiring for the night and effective vigil over his treasure-trove.
With an expression not unsuggestive of the mien of the disconsolate relict who has just made her melancholy deposit in the vault, Raikes placed the sapphire in this second recess, closed the combination door, replaced the swinging radiator, and prepared to retire for the remainder of the night.
Harry was going to do that. It wants a gentleman to do that. 'The carriage came for me, sir, in the afternoon, said Susan, plaintively, 'with your compliments, and would I come. I thought 'What carriage? asked Evan. Raikes, who was ogling Polly, interposed grandly, 'Mine! 'And you sent in my name for this girl to come here? Evan turned wrathfully on him.
"It is easy to prove all this to me, by persuading my girl to do as I bid her. Prevail on her to marry Mr. Raikes, and all is well." "That is out of my power, sir," replied James. "I have no right to interfere, and will not.
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