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Morgan would not have time, I would go to Judge Parker; and I assured the Clerk, that if Judge Parker would have time to study my document and to make use of it, he would certainly become Governor. Then the clerk was moved, that he appointed the hour of the next following day, in which I could speak with Mr. Morgan. I came at the appointed hour; but Mr.
If Ursula had not been so eager to return to the drawing-room, and so sure that "they" would miss her, she would have been anxious about her father; but as it was, she ran upstairs lightly when he stopped speaking, and left him going into the study, where already his lamp was burning.
He has made me so ashamed of my ignorance that I am resolved to stay here for another term at least, and study as hard as I can. I have not begun yet, as it is not worth while at the eleventh hour of this term; but when I return in January I will set to work in earnest. So you may see that his influence over me is an entirely good one.
"'Then we must be stirring, said he. 'Waiter, chaise and pair in five minutes, d'ye hear? Power, my boy, I don't want you; stay here and study your brief. It's little trouble Counsellor Kinshella will give you in the morning.
In Berlin he had flung himself into the study of philosophy with all the zest of a barbarian newly awakened to civilisation.
Edmonstone waited on the headache with painful attention, but they all felt that the only thing to be done for the two poor things was to let them come to an explanation; so Charlotte was sent to bed, her mother went up to Amy, Charles carried off his father to the study, and they found themselves alone.
He was naturally rather severe than cordial in his manner to strangers, contrasting in this, as in most things, the poor vagabond Burley; but he was a good judge of the human countenance, and he liked Leonard's. After a pause he held out his hand. "Sir," said he, "Lord L'Estrange tells me that you wish to enter literature as a calling, and no doubt to study it as an art.
Can you 'tend to a friend?" Redfield Pepper Burns wheeled around in his revolving chair and glanced sharply at Arthur Chester. What he saw made him follow the moment's inspection with a direct question. "Sit down. What have you been doing?" Chester sat down. His face was white. He held up one shaking hand. "Red, what's the matter with me?" Burns continued to study the man before him.
"You are not unkind, I know," she answered; and she ate the rest of her dinner in a comforted frame of mind. After dinner one of the lecturers who resided at Heath Hall, a pleasant, bright girl of two- or three-and-twenty, came and introduced herself, and presently took Priscilla with her to her own room, to talk over the line of study which the young girl proposed to take up.
Marion, indeed, had done the same. "But it will not make any difference. We can change the lines a little," she said to herself, after reading the manuscript, which Ellen passed to her at the hour of German study, a time they were allowed to take for this particular composition. Ellen, however, thought otherwise. "What! another plan for the May piece!" she said, when Marion mentioned the subject.
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