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There have been so many things to prove that Smithson " "S'Richard, sir," cried Jerry. "Well, that the young man we are going to see is a gentleman. I believe it all, Colonel; for, to my sorrow, I know Mark Frayne is little better than a sharper and a cheat." "Mind what you are saying, Mr Lacey," cried the colonel sternly. "I can prove my words, sir," said Lacey firmly.
She was her own mistress, and she could fold her hands and take her rest, eat and drink and sleep and be merry, all at Mr. Smithson's expense. The yachts came flocking in next day, like a flight of white-winged sea birds, and Mr. Smithson had enough to do receiving visitors upon the Cayman.
"I've felt sometimes that if I get my discharge I shall make an end of myself." "Nonsense." "Oh, I shall. I've often thought of drowning myself, after being laughed at, but I couldn't do that." "I should think not." "Fat would be against me there, Smithson; I should only float."
Smithson & Smithson, my Customs Brokers, will attend to all charges on the goods, and will deliver them at your readiness. The health of this place is better than customary by reason of the cool weather, which Health I am as usual enjoying. Trusting that you both are at present in possession of the same Blessing, and will so continue, I remain, dear nephew and niece, "Your affectionate "UNCLE."
Smithson, of England, for the diffusion of knowledge, and which have heretofore been vested in public stocks until such time as Congress should think proper to give them a specific direction. Nor will you, I feel confident, permit any abatement of the principal of the legacy to be made should it turn out that the stocks in which the investments have been made have undergone a depreciation.
'I am not in the least tired, and I mean to waltz, if anyone will ask me, replied Lesbia, decisively. 'I ought to have asked you to dance, and then it would have been the other way, said Smithson, with a touch of acrimony. 'Surely you have dancing enough in town, and you might be obliging for once in a way, and come and sit with me in the garden, and listen to the nightingales.
From Lady Kirkbank, the loquacious, came a gentle sound of snoring, a subdued, ladylike snore, breathed softly at intervals, like a sigh. Mr. Smithson had his team, and his own thoughts, too, for occupation, thoughts which to-night were not altogether pleasant. At the back of the coach Mrs.
And now he was the great Smithson, whose voice was the voice of an oracle, who was supposed to be able to make the fortunes of other men by a word, or a wink, a nod, or a little look across the crowd, and whom all the men and women in London society short of that exclusive circle which does not open its ranks to Smithsons were ready to cherish and admire. Mr.
'I have been told that nobody can waltz who has been born on this side of the Pyrenees, answered Lesbia, withdrawing her arm from her lover's, and slipping, it through the Spaniard's, with the air of a slave who obeys a master. Smithson looked daggers, and retired to a corner of the room glowering.
'Lady Lesbia Haselden is a very different person from a country parson's daughter, answered her chaperon; 'Smithson told me all about it afterwards. He was really taken with Belle's fine figure and good complexion; but one of her particular friends told him of her foolish talk about her sisters, and how well she meant to get them married when she was Mrs. Smithson. This disgusted him.
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