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But Leonora saw quite near, in another corner, Ethel talking to Fred Ryley; she noticed how awkward Fred looked in his new dress-suit, and she liked him for his awkwardness; it seemed to her that Ethel was very beautiful. Arthur pointed out Rose, who was standing up with the lady member of the School Board.
"Perhaps he was one." By COURTNEY RYLEY COOPER and LEO. F. CREAGAN From American Magazine The entrance of Martin Garrity, superintendent of the Blue Ribbon Division of the O.R.& T. Railroad, had been attended by all the niceties of such an occasion, when Martin, grand, handsome, and magnificent, arrived at his office for the day.
I was utterly selfish in that moment. I cared nothing whatever for my aunt's indisposition. Indeed, I secretly accused her of maliciously choosing that night of all nights for her mysterious fatigue. 'But, auntie, I said, controlling myself, 'I must go, really. I shall send Lucy over with a note to Ethel Ryley to ask her to go with me.
I thought it noisy, dirty, and hurried. Its great name roused no thrill in my bosom. On the morrow, I said, I would seek a lodging, and perhaps write to Ethel Ryley. Meanwhile I strolled up into Trafalgar Square, and so into Charing Cross Road. And in Charing Cross Road it was the curst accident of fate I saw the signboard of the celebrated old firm of publishers, Oakley and Dalbiac.
And though she objected to the match, wishing with ardour that Ethel might marry far more brilliantly, she believed as fully in the honest warm kindliness of Fred Ryley as in that of Ethel.
This will is dated twelve years ago, the lawyer stopped to explain. He continued: "I further bequeath to my great-nephew Frederick Wellington Ryley the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds." 'Something for you there, Frederick Wellington Ryley! exclaimed Stanway in a frigid tone, biting his thumb and looking up at the ceiling. Ryley blushed.
Then there was the difficult case of Ethel and Fred Ryley, in which Leonora had done nothing whatever; and there was the case of Rose, whose alienation from the rest of the household became daily more marked. Finally there was the new and portentous case of Millicent, probably the most disconcerting of the three.
'Why, Jack, she said, 'you know as much as I do. Why does Harry come here so often? 'He'd better not come here so often. What's Milly? She's nothing but a child. Leonora made no attempt to argue with him. 'As for Ethel, she said softly, 'she's at a difficult age, and you must be careful 'As for Ethel, he interrupted, 'I'll turn Fred Ryley out of my office to-morrow.
Cooper, the story of Clara Bosvil, the life of Ryley Bosvil "a thorough Gypsy, versed in all the arts of the old race, had two wives, never went to church, and considered that when a man died he was cast into the earth, and there was an end of him" and his death and burial ceremony, and some of Borrow's own opinions, for example, in favour of Pontius Pilate and George IV. these are simple and vigorous in the old style.
Uncle Meshach, with the aid only of his stick, entered the first coach; John Stanway and Fred Ryley the rules of precedence were thus inflexible! occupied the second; and Arthur Twemlow, with the family lawyer and the family doctor, took the third. Leonora remained in the house with the servant to spread the feast.
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