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"Did he make any trouble?" "He had no chance," Crawshay explained, a little grimly. "I was first off the mark. On this piece of paper," he added, smoothing it out, "you will find Robins' calculations as to our whereabouts, which I took as being correct. These, you understand, were not picked up. Lower down you will see the message which he sent under my superintendence later on "
Falling back on his pillow, he drew Fanny’s face to his, and with his last breath kissed her quivering lips, and all was over. Sadly Mr. Miller closed the eyes of his departed friend, and smoothing the covering about him, left him to the care of the servants. A few hours later, Fanny entered the room with Dr. Lacey, again to look on the face of Mr. Wilmot.
There's not another head of the mouse-colour to match your Lady's in the kingdom," she added, smoothing out the severed tresses with the satisfaction of a connoisseur. "No wonder madame could not let this be wasted on the plantations, when you and I and M. le Griseur know her own hair is getting thinner than she would wish a certain Colonel to guess. There! the pretty dear, what a baby she looks!
As for Lancelot, she never thought of him but as an empty-headed fox-hunter who had met with his deserts; and the brilliant accounts which the all smoothing colonel gave at dinner of Lancelot's physical well doing and agreeable conversation only made her set him down the sooner as a twin clever-do-nothing to the despised Bracebridge, whom she hated for keeping her father in a roar of laughter.
'I am so glad to see you are better, bishop, said Mrs Pendle, languidly trifling with a cup of tea. 'Your journey has done you good. 'Change of air, change of air, my dear. A wonderful restorative. 'Your business was all right, I hope? 'Oh, yes! Indeed, I hardly went up on business, and what I did do was a mere trifle, replied the bishop, smoothing his apron.
Well, I really thought in those days that I should make up for the disparity in our relative positions, and raise you to an eminence worthy of you." "Poor old John!" laughed his wife, smoothing his gleaming, silvery hair. "It's not your fault. Father ought to have done more. He's a perfect beast. He is a miser, mean, deceitful, avaricious, spiteful, everything that's wicked.
Was I in a condition to stipulate with Death, as I am this moment with my apothecary, how and where I will take his clyster I should certainly declare against submitting to it before my friends; and therefore I never seriously think upon the mode and manner of this great catastrophe, which generally takes up and torments my thoughts as much as the catastrophe itself; but I constantly draw the curtain across it with this wish, that the Disposer of all things may so order it, that it happen not to me in my own house but rather in some decent inn at home, I know it, the concern of my friends, and the last services of wiping my brows, and smoothing my pillow, which the quivering hand of pale affection shall pay me, will so crucify my soul, that I shall die of a distemper which my physician is not aware of: but in an inn, the few cold offices I wanted, would be purchased with a few guineas, and paid me with an undisturbed, but punctual attention but mark.
His abilities consisted mainly in keeping the bankers complaisant, in smoothing the ruffled feelings of creditors, in cutting out unnecessary expenditures, and in shaving prices. Carnegie's other two more celebrated associates, Henry C. Frick and Charles M. Schwab, were younger men.
I can't tell you where; but he has quite a list of people and sights to be seen, and now he says he should not be comfortable to leave me all alone for more than three days, two for travelling, and one for the wedding. Just then Mrs. Gibson came in, ruffled too after her fashion, though the presence of Lady Harriet was wonderfully smoothing. 'My dear Lady Harriet how kind of you!
Mavor sang softly, smoothing his hand, 'Just as I am, and Billy dozed quietly for half an hour. When he awoke again his eyes turned to Mr. Craig, and they were troubled and anxious. 'Oi tried 'ard. Oi wanted to win, he struggled to say. By this time Craig was master of himself, and he answered in a clear, distinct voice 'Listen, Billy! You made a great fight, and you are going to win yet.
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