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Ralston's house, I said to him: "Papa says I may offer you twenty dollars for the colt, but if you won't take that, I am to offer twenty-two and a half, and if you won't take that, to give you twenty-five." It would not require a Connecticut man to guess the price finally agreed upon. This story is nearly true. I certainly showed very plainly that I had come for the colt and meant to have him.
Ralston said, "the doctor has commanded me to turn your husband out immediately. He must just peep at the darling baby and go." "Tell him to go himself to blazes!" said Monck forcibly, and then reached up, still curiously grim to Mrs. Ralston's observing eyes, and, without rising from his knees, took his child into his arms.
From Captain Monck. Tommy is ill very ill. Malaria again. He thinks I had better go to him." "Oh, my dear!" Mrs. Ralston's exclamation held dismay. Stella met it by holding out to her the message. "Tommy down with malaria," it said. "Condition serious. Come if you are able. Monck." Mrs. Ralston rose. She seemed to be more agitated than Stella. "I shall go too," she said. "No, dear, no!"
And now came this American man, this boozing Colonel, with none of Ralston's reticence, and apparently with none of his respect for the character of a lady whom he had known long and well, and the coarser accusation travelled on the same lines as the other, and only differed from it in going a good deal further.
He paced the paved yard on tiptoe, and peeping through the kitchen-window, saw his father seated alone at the fireside Armstrong looked up with his customary mild, abstracted gaze. 'Why, Paul, lad! he cried. 'Who's handled ye like that? 'There's no harm done, sir, said Paul 'I've been putting a precept of Mr. Ralston's into effect in a way he never dreamt of.
He would have married and ruled in his own country." As it was, he had gone instead to Eton and to Oxford, and Linforth must needs search for him over there in the huddled city under the Taragarh Hill. Ralston's Pathan was even then waiting for Linforth at the bottom of the tower. "Sir," he said, making a low salaam when Linforth had descended, "His Highness Shere Ali is now in Ajmere.
Ralston's wistful blue eyes seldom rested upon the race-course. They looked beyond to the mist-veiled plains. The room she had prepared for Stella's reception looked in an easterly direction towards the winding, wooded road that led up to the Rajah's residence. Great care had been expended upon it.
These, of course, were a sort of lover's blasphemies against his idol, and he resented them with all his heart and soul, exactly as any other worshipper would resent the insinuations of the devil against the powers and perfections of his deity. His resentment could not lead him to oblivion, and his memory of Ralston's humorous and mischievous enjoyment was with him often.
Prior's "Popular Names of British Plants," p. 134. See Kelly's "Indo-European Tradition Folk-lore," 1863, pp. 193-198; Ralston's "Russian Folk-Songs," 1872, p. 98. "Mystic Trees and Flowers," Mr. D. Conway, Frasers Magazine, Nov. 1870, p. 608. The "receipt," so called, was the formula of magic words to be employed during the process. See Grindon's "Shakspere Flora," 1883, p. 242.
Ralston's face, however, did not change. "Are you sure that it was bolted before?" "Yes, quite sure," said Violet. "The room is on the ground floor, and outside one of the windows a flight of steps leads down from the verandah to the ground. So I have always taken care to bolt them myself." "When?" asked Ralston. "After dressing for dinner," she replied.
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