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She caught glimpses of him sometimes in the mornings buzzing around his gardeners, his painters, his carpenters, and his grooms. He would buzz the rest of his life, but nothing short of a revolution could take his possessions away. The Graingers and the Grenfells and the Stranges might move mountains, but not Mr. Chamberlin's house.
There was a girl at our school whose name was Fidgett Jessie Fidgett a nice, quiet girl, as placid as a church but I do assure you, it got to be so tiresome well, you know how it would be and so I decided I wouldn't say anything about Miriam's name to you, nor about yours to her. Goodness knows, there must be lots of Stranges in the world just as much as Jarrotts."
And even more difficult would it have been to trace a resemblance between Mrs. Strange and the blond, bushy-headed "Mlle. Le Garde" of the posters. Nevertheless, the likenesses at one time had been considered not too flattering, and Phil treasured them as evidences of imperishable distinction. But the Stranges had tired of public life.
It seems odd to have so many Stranges and I must say I never could get used to the idea of having exactly the same name as yours. It was almost like not being married outside the family and I should hate to marry a relation. That part of it comes as a pleasant surprise, do you see?
"Yes, sir." "How old are you?" "Not quite twenty-six." "What's your name?" "Herbert Strange!" "Ah? One of the Stranges of Virginia?" "No, sir." There was another long pause, during which the older man's eyes wandered once more over the shed and the piles of wool, coming back again to Strange. "You should pick up a little Spanish." "I've been studying it. Hablo Español, pero no muy bien." Mr.
Spicer, his predecessor but your Stranges, and Rembrandt etchings, and Wilkies before the letter, with which his apartments were furnished presently in the most perfect good taste, as was allowed in the university, where this young fellow got no small reputation.
At the extreme north of Norfolk, occupying the elbow of the coast, having the Wash on the west and the German Ocean on the north, lies the deanery of Heacham, a district in which the Le Stranges have for at least seven centuries exercised their beneficent influence. Heacham itself is a large township extending over some 4,900 acres.
Strange " "Odd that was, wasn't it? But it isn't such a very uncommon name. I've met other Stranges " "Oh yes. So have I." "Well, who do you think he is? Why, he's Stephens and Jarrott's new man in New York. He's taken Jenkins's place. You remember Jenkins, don't you? That little man with a lisp. I had a nice long chat with him Strange, I mean.
There were Stranges in Virginia, and had been for a great many generations. In fact, her own family, the Colfaxes, had almost intermarried with them. When she said almost, she meant that they had intermarried with the same families the Yorkes, the Endsleighs and the Poles. If Mr. Strange did belong to the Virginia Stranges, she was sure they could find relatives in common. Oh, he didn't?
Then came in Sir Sagramore le Desirous, Sir Dodinas le Savage, Sir Dinadan, Sir Bruin le Noire, that Sir Kay named La Cote Male Taile, and Sir Kay le Seneschal, Sir Kay de Stranges, Sir Meliot de Logris, Sir Petipase of Winchelsea, Sir Galleron of Galway, Sir Melion of the Mountain, Sir Cardok, Sir Uwaine les Avoutres, and Sir Ozanna le Cure Hardy.
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