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But if I can prove to you that this article cannot have been written by a man of common honesty, Mr. Howel, what will you then say to the responsibility of your editor?" "In that case I shall be compelled to admit that he had no connexion with it." "Any thing in preference to giving up the beloved idol!" said John Effingham laughing.
He shouted some final directions to the men in the field, then leaped over the fence and strode along beside her. He appeared to have nothing to say, after they were once started, and they went through lane and pasture and field in silence. But as soon as she broke out with fresh praise for his kindness, he found his tongue in all its curt vigor. "Enough has been said about that.
As I'm a living man I believe he, she, or it has got her! His words were incomprehensible enough to stand in copious need of explanation, as Mr Lessingham plainly thought. 'What is it that you mean, sir? 'What I say, I believe that that Oriental friend of yours has got her in her clutches, if it is a "her;" goodness alone knows what the infernal conjurer's real sex may be. 'Atherton!
I have passed my whole life in this manner: I eat, I talk and I listen; I eat, I write or read, that is to say, I talk and listen again; I eat, I play, I eat, again I talk and listen, I eat, and again I go to bed; and so each day I can do nothing else, and I understand how to do nothing else.
"Dining room closes at two; supper at six." "Do you mean to say that you serve nothing between the hours of two and six?" "Serve you a drink, if you like," with an understanding grin at his questioner's dusty knapsack.
"And so I'm to write a book as big as 'The Annals; and, after I've been slaving at it for half a century or so, I'm to be told it won't do, and all my labor must go for nothing? I must say the proposal is rather a cool one to make, to the mother of a family." "Not at all; that's not it, I mean," said Mr.
"Well, dear, say it out, an intolerable old fool! Isn't that what you mean?" "Not exactly; but you presume upon my forbearance. Elsie, you must not interrupt and annoy me, for I tell you now I will not submit to it. You forget that I am not a child."
The discussion gradually grew more heated, always on the same subject for lack of others. Madame Bondel obstinately refused to say what she had heard about these neighbors, allowing things to be understood without saying exactly what they were. Bendel would shrug his shoulders, grin, and exasperate his wife. She finally cried out: "Well! that gentleman is deceived by his wife, there!"
Colonel Carter unfolded the half-sheet of foreign notepaper and read: Dear Colonel Carter: Your letter just received in which you say that you have blown up the magazine at Doonha and are marching to Hanadra with a view to the rescue of Mrs. Bellairs.
"Now we have talked long enough on this subject and must begin to put in practice the rule I have just laid down." "Yes, sir; I have my ciphering to do now. But, papa, must I learn the lessons over and rewrite the composition this afternoon? If you say I must, I'll have to miss the meeting of our society. I'd be very sorry for that and ashamed to have to tell why I wasn't there.
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