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"Well," said Mr. Fairfax when Betty paused, "I understand that you repent, and you do not repent, and that you are no longer a Speciality." "That is the case, sir." "Can you not take me further into your confidence?" "There is no use," said Betty, shaking her head. "I am not surprised, Miss Vivian, that you are unhappy." "I am accustomed to that," said Betty.
He did not hold by foreign ways; but he dragged his hat off and then expectorated on the lawn, just to show that he felt quite at home. He even took the lead in the conversation. "Tell 'em," he said, "that I'm a plain man from Sun'land that has a speciality, an' that's transshipping cargo at sea, but me hands are clean." He held them out and they were not, so he must have spoken metaphorically.
Some may call it an improvement, but it might almost be called a revolution in mechanical engineering which Mr. Maudslay introduced. Before his time no system had been followed in proportioning the number of threads of screws to their diameter. Every bolt and nut was thus a speciality in itself, and neither possessed nor admitted of any community with its neighbours.
The Free Press in its beginnings did not attack as an enemy. It only timidly claimed to be heard. It regarded itself as a "speciality." It was humble. And there went with it a mass of ex-centric stuff.
But the dinner was too, in some degree, a special dinner, as Emily was enabled to explain to her father, the whole speciality having been fully detailed to herself by her aunt. Mr. Roby, whose belongings were not generally aristocratic, had one great connexion with whom, after many years of quarrelling, he had lately come into amity.
It stands to reason that a man who's responsible for all the largest new eyesores in London would impress any corporation. Clever chap, Corver! Instead of wasting his time in travel and study, he made a speciality of learning how to talk to committees. And he was always full of ideas like the piebald pony, ever since I knew him." "It's that façade that did for us," broke in another voice.
I., for that rule says that 'no secret is to be kept by one Speciality from another if the other ought really to know about it. I tried to persuade myself that you need not know about the packet that it was no concern of yours. But, somehow, I could not go on. There was something about the life here, and and Mrs. Haddo, and the chapel, and you, Margaret, which made the whole thing impossible.
As each Speciality laid her head on her pillow that night she could not but reflect on Fanny's strange behavior, and wondered much what it meant. As to Fanny herself, she lay awake for hours. Some of the girls and some of the mistresses thought that she was grieving for her father; but, as a matter of fact, she was not even thinking of him.
She was thinking of Betty, whom she longed to comfort, whom she earnestly longed to help. "It's so queer about Betty," said Sibyl after a pause. "She seemed to be such a very popular Speciality. Then, all of a sudden, she ceased to be one at all. I can't understand it." "And you are never likely to, Sibyl. What happens in the club is only known to its members." Sibyl grew red.
It has the ruins of an old castle in its midst, and several interesting antiquities and customs. It, too, has its unique speciality or prerogative. I was told that every person of title driving through the town, or coming to reside within the jurisdiction of its bye-laws, must leave his card to the authorities in the shape of a veritable horse-shoe.
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