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Again Mr. Champers-Haswell uttered his windy whistle. That a man should refuse £17,000 for a bit of African gold worth £100 or so, struck him as miraculous. But Sir Robert did not seem in the least surprised, only very disappointed. "I quite understand your dislike to selling," he said. "Thank you for leaving it here for the present to see us through the flotation," and he laughed.
Here was a revolution in the fortunes of our forlorn Coningsby! When his grandfather first sent for him to Monmouth House, his destiny was not verging on greater vicissitudes. He rose from his seat, and was surprised that all the silent gentlemen who were about him did not mark his agitation. Not an individual there that he knew.
"By another name?" he exclaimed, surprised, but smiling at what seemed a strange caprice. "Yes. It is a sad name to me. It reminds me of many things of a time that is better forgotten since it is gone. Will you do it for me? It will make it seem as though that time had never been." "And yet I love your own name," he said, thoughtfully.
And when, panting and laughing, I at length reached the summit, he would throw up his hands, and shout, with the utmost glee, "Mamma Manitou!" Our old acquaintances, the Grignons, seemed much surprised that I should have ventured on such a journey. They had never undertaken it, although they had lived so long at the Kakalin; but then there was no reason why they should have done so.
There are always reasons in Nature which cause that which happens by chance or through the lot. I am somewhat surprised that a mind so shrewd as M. Bayle's could have allowed itself to be so misled on this point.
Sands were angry with me for doing so, and for that reason refused the testimonial. They saw through it all, and understood my position. When I spoke to them about my friend the mayor, they looked surprised, and said a recommendation from him would satisfy them. So you see just how I am situated."
While they were struck with astonishment at these magnificent sights, the angel said, "Be not surprised; the things which you now behold are not the production and workmanship of any angelic hand, but are framed by the Builder of the universe, and presented as a gift to our prince; wherefore the architectonic art is here in its essential perfection, and hence are derived all the rules of that art which are known and practised in the world."
'My life for him in such circumstances, answered her brother; 'besides, he would never have left the watch behind. 'After all, Fergus, said Flora, 'and with every allowance, I am surprised you can countenance that man. 'I countenance him?
"I know what you can do," she told them, when they had settled themselves about the room in their usual manner. "You can make wreaths for the churches in the city. They will need them for Christmas decorations." "Make wreaths!" was the surprised exclamation of all. "Yes. Don't you understand? You have them in the church here every Christmas, don't you?" "Certainly," Rod replied.
So surprised and interested was the visitor that he actually did lay down his pen this time. "Was it the same man, do you think?" he asked in a voice that seemed to thrill with sympathetic excitement. "Indeed I've sometimes wondered!" said she. "Tell me how it happened!"
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