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I have presentiments that come true. I reckoned that probably the relict would put a stone in the graveyard for me. I have a presentiment that I shall die twice more, staying dead the fifth time I pass away. That will be here in this town, and the gravestone won't be wasted." While the first selectman was still trying to digest this, the thin man opened his valise.
We were glad we got him elected before relief came." "And so the blessed relief did come at last?" "Yes, it came one bright, sunny morning, just after election. John Murphy was the choice, and there never was a better, I am willing to testify; but John Murphy came home with us, in the train that came to succor us, and lived to marry the widow Harris " "Relict of " "Relict of our first choice.
No such tears had yet fallen from Gwen's eyes as these that mixed with this old woman's, the convict's relict the convict's mother from Sapps Court. An effort against herself, to choke them back, and an ignominious failure! A short breakdown, another effort, and a success! Gwen rose above herself, morally triumphant.
New York is near five times 15 degrees west of Greenwich, and the sun consequently rises five hours later at New York than at London." "There must be a mistake in this, Rosy," said the relict, in a tone of desperate resignation, in which the desire to break out in dissent, was struggling oddly enough with an assumed dignity of deportment.
It was determined to supplement the collection with a library of rare books, for which ten thousand pounds was to be paid to the Right Honorable Henrietta Cavendish Holies, Countess of Oxford and Countess Mortimer, Relict of Edward, Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, and the Most Noble Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Portland, their only daughter.
The relict merely shrugged her shoulders, as much as to say that she knew no such thing; but Rose, who had been well taught, raised her serene eyes to her aunt's face, and mildly said "All true, aunty, and that is owing to the fact that the earth is smaller at each end than in the middle."
Tansley waved his cigar in the air, as if implying that you could draw a circle around his field of knowledge. "Oh, well," he said, "you saw her to-day. So you're already aware that she's young and pretty and charming and all that. As for the rest, she's a widow, and a wealthy one. Relict, as we say in the law, of a naval officer of high rank, who, I fancy, was some years older than herself.
"It is a fashion of respect and courtesy, everywhere, I believe." "'M!" reëjaculated the relict. Thereafter, Faith was "Miss," with a slight pressure of emphasis upon the handle. "Mamma!" cried Hendie, impetuously, one day, as he rushed in from a walk with his attendant, "I hate Mahala Harris! I wish you'd let me dress myself, and go to walk alone, and send her off to Jericho!"
With the sensation of becoming more and more light-headed every minute, Clennam saw the relict of the late Mr F. enjoying herself in the most wonderful manner, by putting herself and him in their old places, and going through all the old performances now, when the stage was dusty, when the scenery was faded, when the youthful actors were dead, when the orchestra was empty, when the lights were out.
"I beg your pardon but then is your aunt Lady Bluebell? I did not quite catch " "Don't be afraid. She is amazingly deaf. Yes. She is the relict of my beloved uncle, the sixteenth or seventeenth Baron Bluebell I forget exactly how many of them there have been. And I do you know who I am?" She laughed, well knowing that I did not. "No," I answered frankly. "I have not the least idea.
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