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To-night, especially, as he tramped the coast in the teeth of the gale, he thought of Willie Spence's ridicule and one of his periodic moods of self-abasement came upon him. What a wretched cur he was! How lacking in nerve! Any woman, he muttered to himself, was better off without such a feeble-willed, spineless husband!
"Horse!" exclaimed Miss Kingsley. Fortunately I recalled what Miss Kingsley had told me regarding Mr. Spence's early experiences in search of extremes, so that I was not as nonplussed as might perhaps have been expected by these ejaculations. "Gruesome!" I said, with a determination to acquit myself creditably. "Unsympathetic!" added Miss Kingsley, rather unnecessarily as I thought. "Not so bad.
And yet white men build great houses, as if they were to live forever. In a little time white men will be dust as well as I. I told him, 'if red men will learn the good book, they may know as much as white men. Therefore he that is above does not send us the good book." About TOMO CHICHI, the following is given in SPENCE'S Anecdotes, p. 318.
"Do you play?" exclaimed Mrs. Kame, in a voice of mixed incredulity and hope. "Play!" cried Mr. Brent, "she can teach Jerry Shorter or the Duchess of Taunton." "The Duchess cheats," announced Cecil Grainger. "I caught her at it at Cannes " "Indeed, I don't play very well," Honora interrupted him, "and besides " "Suppose we go over to Mrs. Spence's house," Trixton Brent suggested.
It's an awful responsibility, isn't it, to tamper with anybody's faith in anything?" THE twenty minutes prolonged themselves to forty, the forty to fifty, and the fifty to an hour; and still Millner waited for Mr. Spence's summons. During the two years of his secretaryship the young man had learned the significance of such postponements. Mr.
The houses were afterwards, I think, let out in residential flats and boarding houses, and at one time No. 16 was converted into the Royal Hotel by Mr. Jack Andrews, former proprietor of old Spence's Hotel; they were finally acquired by Mrs. Monk. Mr. Stephen purchased from Mrs.
Preston is said to have 'confessed' the existence, is, as you will see, 'Spence's Plan, and nothing more; and nothing more, no, not a hair more, will Corruption's sons, with all their torturing and twisting, with all their falsehoods and affected alarms, be able to make of it! Thus, you will clearly perceive, that the 'confessions, as they are called, of your correspondent, Mr.
Howard Spence's mother was a very dear friend of mine. I was one of the first who knew her when she came to New York, from Troy, a widow, to educate her son. She was a very fine and a very courageous woman." Mrs. Holt paused a moment. "She hoped that Howard would be a lawyer." "A lawyer!" Honora repeated. "I lost sight of him for several years," continued Mrs.
"You know that Draper's given up his Bible Class? I understand it's not from the pressure of engagements " Mr. Spence's narrow lips took an ironic curve under the straight-clipped stubble of his moustache "it's on principle, he tells me. He's principled against doing good!" Draper lifted a protesting hand. "It's not exactly that, father "
Spence's eye twinkled as he spoke. "I was prepared for them. That she should stay abroad with you all this time is in itself significant. Where does she propose to live when you are back in England?" "Why, there hasn't been a word said on the subject. Eleanor is waiting; doesn't like to ask questions.
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