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"Can these boys not be sent to their lessons?" he said, at last, knitting his brows. "Oh, don't you know?" said Harry, cutting a delighted caper. "We have holidays now. Mr. Stretton has gone away. He went away a fortnight ago, or nearly three weeks now." Percival looked suddenly at Kitty, who coloured vividly. "Why did he go?" he asked. "I'm sure I can't tell you," said Mr.
That he was the Brian Luttrell of whom she had so often heard, whose death in the Alps had seemed so certain that even the law courts had been satisfied that she might rightfully inherit his possessions, that he John Stretton, the boys' tutor could be this dead cousin of her's, was too incredible a thought ever to occur to her.
I am growing strong enough to continue my journey and I must not trespass on your hospitality any longer." "Your strength is not very great as yet," said the Prior, courteously. "Pray take a seat, Mr. Stretton. We are only too pleased to keep you with us as long as you will do us the honour to remain, and I think it is decidedly against your own interests to travel at present."
I've an account to settle with you, Stretton; now that I've cleaned up Dudley's, and he's dead!" You could have heard a pin drop on the dead silence of that underground hole. Neither Dudley nor Baker stirred, and it hit me like a hammer that Macartney didn't know they were alive; he didn't know! I stood as though I had been struck dumb; so did Paulette.
I could feel my dream girl's shoulder where she sat beside me, muffled in a sable-lined coat of Dudley's: and the sweet warmth of her, the faint scent of her gold-bronze hair, made me afraid to speak, even if I had known what I wanted to say. But suddenly she spoke to me. "Mr. Stretton, you're not angry with me for coming with you?" "You know I'm not." But I did not know what I was.
"Her name was, of course, Chamartin, but in obedience to her father's wish, after the divorce she took her mother's maiden name, and was known as Gabrielle Engledue." "Gabrielle Engledue!" I echoed. "Gabrielle Engledue!" The sudden revelation of the motive of the crime at Stretton Street staggered me.
Of this he took one corner himself, Gascoigne another, and the footmen the remaining two. Thus, as gently as might be, they bore the wounded man from the enclosure, through the crowd that had by now assembled in the street, and over the threshold of Stretton House.
'Stretton! roared Carl, leaping at him and laying forcible hands upon him, forgetful of his own sprained wrist. 'Is this Miss Allen? 'Yes, said Christopher, with a sob which would have way in spite of him. 'Then it isn't Mademoiselle Hélène, said Carl. Christopher turned with bewildered looks. 'Tell me, he said to Barbara wildly, 'are you playing at the Garrick Theatre?
"But I tell you this, Macartney, and Stretton too if any one within a hundred miles of this mine did murder Thompson, Billy Jones or any one else, it'll come out!" and he jerked his head around. "Don't you think so, Paulette?" "I? I never thought of poor old Thompson having been murdered!" She answered as if she were startled, but she did not turn.
Norton, M.A. Power, E. Sewell, Mrs. Marquoid, Hesba Stretton, Florence Marryat, Elizabeth Wetherell, Sarah Tytler, C.C. Fraser-Tytler, C. Craik, Hon. Mrs. James Fenimore Cooper said in regard to the materials for American fiction: "There is a familiarity of the subject, a scarcity of events, and a poverty in the accompaniments that drive an author from the undertaking in despair."
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