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There came a second volley and then the car flashed among the body of Greek troops. Quickly Hal brought the car to a stop. Heads bobbed up from the back of the car and it was Anthony Stubbs who breathed the relief that all felt. "Safe at last!" he cried. Now all alighted from the car, the Bulgarian officer, Hal's prisoner, with them. Greek troops approached. Hal spoke hurriedly to the Bulgarian.
I know that we didn't dine together the next year, because young Barker swore he wouldn't put his feet under the same mahogany with such a very contemptible scoundrel as that Mixer; and Nibbles, who borrowed money at Valparaiso of young Stubbs, who was then a waiter in a restaurant, didn't like to meet such people.
But ere the charms of Miss Cecilia Stubbs had erected her into a positive goddess, or elevated her at least to a level with the saint her namesake, Mrs. Rachel Waverley gained some intimation which determined her to prevent the approaching apotheosis. Mrs.
Farmer Stubbs was very unwilling to put himself into the power of Colonel Kirk and his lambs, and declined going with the sum of money necessary to bribe those in authority. Mr Battiscombe had the money ready, which he hoped would be sufficient. He first thought of Mr Handscombe, but on applying to Mr Willoughby, who had last heard from him, he found that he had left London, no one knew whither.
You know my unfortunate pre-engagement it is broken, and FOR EVER! I am free; free, but to be your slave, your humblest, fondest, truest slave!" And so on. . . . . "Oh, Mr. Stubbs," said she, as I imprinted a kiss upon her cheek, "I can't refuse you; but I fear you are a sad naughty man. . . . ."
A moment later the rotund face of the little war correspondent appeared in the tent entrance. "Stubbs," said Hal gravely, "you missed getting killed by just about five minutes." The little man started back in alarm. "Wha what's that?" he demanded. "I said you just escaped getting killed." "But who would want to kill me?" demanded Stubbs, plainly very nervous.
"Well, kinder on business, and kinder not. I thought I'd like to have a vacation. Besides, the old lady wanted a silk dress, and she was sot on havin' it bought in York. So I come to the city." "Where are you stopping, Mr. Stubbs?" "Over to the Astor House. Pretty big hotel, ain't it?" "Yes, I see you are traveling in style." "Yes, I suppose they charge considerable, but I guess I can stand it.
A silent, almost morose, inattention to each other succeeds to the subsidence into their seats, lasting till well into the first entree, but interspersed with remarks such as, "Tom's bad again; I can't tell what's the matter with him!" "I suppose Ann doesn't come down in the mornings?" "What's the name of your doctor, Fanny?" "Stubbs?" "He's a quack!" "Winifred? She's got too many children.
Froggatt had then done, and Stubbs was a useful piece of mechanism without a head, and Lance believed himself quite able to fill the place Felix had taken at the same age; indeed, he had far less either to learn or to overcome, and though his arithmetical powers were still in abeyance, he had rather excelled in that line at the Cathedral school.
When I hear her spoken of as the Good Queen Bess, I think of how she ordered the Puritan lawyer, John Stubbs, and the printer of his pamphlet to be led to the scaffold and have their right hands driven off by the wrist with a butcher's knife and mallet, and how in God's name she commits many other unspeakable acts of devilishness, the most dastardly of which was her refusal to provide food for the thousands of brave men who saved her and her kingdom.
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