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Trimmer does not own one share of stock in the Brightlight Electric Company, nor will he own it," he answered. "In that case," said Bobby, "I am satisfied to consider your offer without fear of heart-disease." The departing caller met an incoming one in the outer office, and Agnes, sweeping into Bobby's room, breathlessly gasped: "That was Frank Sharpe!"
"Would you be so good, Mr. Sharpe, to state at once what you do mean? for I confess I do not, in any degree, understand you."
She had been bold, and she had disgusted his fastidious taste, and she had not meant it. She was so grateful, and she loved him so dearly, but she never would offend in that way again. Mr. Ingelow offered her his arm, but she drew back. "I will follow you," she said, in a low voice, shrinking painfully into herself. He said no more, but led the way. Mrs. Sharpe went after, Miss Dane last.
In the last edition of Sir Charles Lyell's "Elementary Geology" it is stated, on the authority of a former President of this Society, the late Daniel Sharpe, that between 30 and 40 per cent. of the species of Silurian Mollusca are common to both sides of the Atlantic.
Sharpe Vulture seized all his property, and the once happy little family were sent adrift on the wide world without a home. The last time I heard of them, the mother and the two sons were living in an humble way not far from the sea-side; the father was dead; Tom still continued his favourite study, but he always took great care not to trespass in other people's fields.
There were no special precautions against infection in those days: but no other member of the family took it, and the alarm about me was three years after Agnes's death. But to go on to those early days of the forties. There were two families with whom we were intimate. Mr. Sharpe, and her sisters Eliza and Harriet, and her brother, John Taylor.
The captain leaned silent and sombre with his arms on the bulwarks, and watched the suspected craft. Mr. Fullalove joined the group, and levelled a powerful glass, of his own construction. His inspection was long and minute, and, while the glass was at his eye, Sharpe asked him half in a whisper, could he make out anything? "Wal," said he, "the varmint looks considerable snaky."
Epitaph on a Tombstone at Hamilton. On Friday the 16th, Bailie Irvine of Dumfries came to the Council at Edinburgh, and gave information concerning this "horrid rebellion." In the absence of Rothes, Sharpe presided much to the wrath of some members; and as he imagined his own safety endangered, his measures were most energetic.
Bond Sharpe had engaged for his club-house the most celebrated of living artists, a gentleman who, it was said, received a thousand a-year, whose convenience was studied by a chariot, and amusement secured by a box at the French play.
The captain is a confirmed hypochondriac; but he brightens up now and then when he hears of any illness in the family of Mr. Sharpe Currie, and, at such times, is heard to murmur, "If those seven sickly children should go off, I might still have very great EXPECTATIONS," for the which he has been roundly scolded by the squire, and gravely preached at by the parson.
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