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Evelyn mistook it all for pure kindness, and returned the hospitality with an affection that extended to the whole family, but particularly to the two little girls, and a beautiful black spaniel. Her dresses came down from London; her abigail arrived; the buhl wardrobe was duly filled, and Evelyn at last learned that it is a fine thing to be rich.
M. Jules St.-Ange stood long, gazing at the receding vessel as it now disappeared, now re-appeared beyond the tops of the high undergrowth; but, when an arm of the forest hid it finally from sight, he turned townward, followed by that fagged-out spaniel, his servant, saying, as he turned, "Baptiste." "Miché?" "You know w'at I goin' do wid dis money?" "Non, m'sieur."
I am SIR, Your most humble Servant. Bedfordshire, Sept.. 1, 1711 Mr. I am one of those whom every Body calls a Pocher, and sometimes go out to course with a Brace of Greyhounds, a Mastiff, and a Spaniel or two; and when I am weary with Coursing, and have killed Hares enough, go to an Ale-house to refresh my self. Yours in Haste, T. Isaac Hedgeditch. Orat. Bk.
At first she for the pup turned out to be a bitch was very weak, feeble, and ugly, but by degrees she grew stronger and improved in looks, and, thanks to the unflagging care of her preserver, in eight months' time she was transformed into a very pretty dog of the spaniel breed, with long ears, a bushy spiral tail, and large, expressive eyes.
Therefore Dominic had walked on to Barnes Common, and finding the uncomfortable bench by the roadside whereon Cappadocia, the toy spaniel, had sought his protection more than a year ago untenanted, had sat down there to meditate. Cedar Lodge was no longer a refuge. He preferred to keep away from it as long as might be.
The upper housemaid saw a woman whose legs she did not notice, as was the case with Mr. Godfrey's friend to whom he appeared hypnotically. The fact that the dog that appeared to Miss Freer was a spaniel like Major S.'s, shows familiarity with the house on the part of the gang. That they moved about early near the house is shown by Mr.
Discriminate breeding was rare, and if a Bulldog should mate himself with a Greyhound, or a Spaniel with a Terrier, the alliance was regarded merely as an inconvenience. So careless were owners in preventing the promiscuous mingling of alien breeds that it is little short of surprising so many of our canine types have been preserved in their integrity.
The pointer, the setter, the hound, the greyhound, the terrier, the spaniel, and even the bull-dog, were made, and almost perfected, by nature chiefly for one office alone, although they maybe useful in many other ways. This is well illustrated in the sheep-dog.
Then he opened the door and glanced along the passage. When he turned back into the room her Ladyship had kicked the spaniel from the sofa and was sitting bolt upright with all her languor gone. "Well?" she asked quickly. Whittington took a seat on the sofa by her side. "Charles Wogan left Bologna at daybreak.
There is an old rhyme, "A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut-tree, the more ye thrash 'em, the better they be;" which rhyme is not true. But there lies a foundation of truth under it, that no woman ever perfectly loves a man who is not strong enough to make her also obey. As Dr.
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