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Yours ever, SIDNEY COLVIN. February, 1892. Monday. It was, if I remember rightly, five o'clock when we were all signalled to be present at the Ferry Depôt of the railroad.
Louis he obtained a known genuine bill of the bank in question, and in company with a broker proceeded to examine the two with a microscope. The broker pronounced the supposed counterfeits to be genuine. In the mean time the gambler had left the city. Two days after, Mr. Sidney had overtaken him. So great were his excitement and vexation that he could scarcely eat or sleep.
Presently came galloping forward in hot haste those nobles and gentlemen, with their esquires, fifty men in all Sidney, Willoughby, and the rest whom Leicester had no longer been able to restrain from taking part in the adventure. A force of infantry, the amount of which cannot be satisfactorily ascertained, had been ordered by the Earl to cross the bridge at a later moment.
Why!" exclaimed Sidney in surprise. "I didn't leave my Clown like THAT!" "What has happened to him?" asked Madeline, who came to see if her Candy Rabbit was dry. "He has one leg stuck up in the air," went on her brother. "I left him lying flat on his back, so the broken leg I mended would get good and hard and stiff again. Now look at him!" "It IS funny," agreed Madeline. Didn't you move him?"
18: All the facts and figures contained in this chapter are taken from the works of the Marchese Pepoli. 19: Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 293. Passages from the Autobiography of Sidney, Lady Morgan, 1 vol. 12mo. cloth, $1. Onward; or, The Mountain Clamberers. A Tale of Progress. By Jane Anne Winscom. 1 vol. 12mo., cloth, 75 cents. Legends and Lyrics. Shakers.
"And so I wish to withdraw " "If it is a question of fee " "Nothing of the sort, Mr. Prale. I am sure you would pay me any reasonable fee I asked. There is no question regarding your financial ability." "May I ask, then, why you desire to leave the case?" Sidney Prale asked. "I'd rather not state my reasons, Mr. Prale.
If he has not yet arrived, my secretary shall telephone for him." Mr. Coulson indicated his approval. "Seems to me," he remarked, "that I have struck a fortunate evening for my visit." Sir Edward touched the bell and his secretary appeared. "Sidney," he said, "I want you to find the gentleman whose name I am writing upon this piece of paper.
He had no doubt that Condor had determined to postpone the occasion until they had left the Pireus, at which point they were to call, as his service might be required there to interpret. Once away from the island, he would not be likely to be called upon to translate until they arrived at Constantinople. It was a pleasant dinner in Sir Sidney Smith's cabin.
But they talked in a sparkling way, using good English, speaking in agreeable voices with a correct accent, and indulging in a great deal of malicious humour. As they separated Mrs. Sidney, to whom Howard had not spoken during the evening, said to Segur: "You must bring Mr. Howard on Sunday afternoon." "Will you drop Marian at the house for me?" Mrs. Carnarvon asked her.
A boy of lively parts was Will, and good-fortune brought those parts to the notice of the grave and philosophic Greville, Lord Brooke, whose dearest boast was the friendship in early life of Sir Philip Sidney. The result of this notice was a highly creditable education at school and university, and an ultimate introduction into the foremost society of the capital.
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