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She was afraid of water, afraid of its secrecy and its current; and she turned away from her contemplation with a sense of chill. "I'm cold," she said, brightly. "Bertram.... Could we have some tea, Mrs. Tennant?" "Certainly. You'd like a wash? I'll get the tea at once...." Back in the room, Sally was immediately again embraced.
"This burner of peasants' hayricks, this pitiful plunderer of hen-roosts and cattle byres! If it were a man, now to nail the insult to his lips " "We lose time," interrupted the Doomsman. "I have named my price." "The price ah, yes, the price. Tennant, Constans, you heard what he said. But where is my child? Let the girl stand forth; she is her father's daughter, and she shall answer for herself."
Maynard, and, to Sara's surprise, Garth Trent. As she entered the room, he turned quietly from the window where he had been standing looking out at the Herricks' charming garden. "Mr. Trent" Miss Lavinia fluttered forward "let me introduce you to Miss Tennant." The Lavender Lady's pretty, faded blue eyes beamed benevolently on him.
Do not suppose that I want you to be a spy in this matter, but what is troubling the school must be discovered, and within the next few days. Now you understand. Remember that what I have said to you is said in the interest of the school, and absolutely behind closed doors. You are not to repeat it to anybody. You can go now, Alice Tennant. Personally I am pleased with you.
It's splendacious she is entirely when she's dressed up in her best velvet and feathers and laces and jewels. Why, nothing holds her in bounds; there's nothing she stops at. I have seen her give hundreds of pounds for one little glittering gem. Ah! and here's a ring. Look, Mrs. Tennant." Kathleen had now opened a small box which was lying at the bottom of the great trunk.
How she accomplished this feat it is impossible to say, but the fact remains that she did accomplish it, and perhaps Jane Crab delved to the root of the matter in the terse comment which the circumstances elicited from her: "Miss Tennant has a way with her that 'ud make they stone sphinxes gallop round the desert if so be she'd a mind they should."
Tennant, with a smile; "but as a matter of fact I am not forty yet." "Not forty!" said Kathleen. "But forty's an awful age, isn't it? I mean, you want crutches when you are forty, don't you?" "Not as a rule, my dear. I trust when I am forty I shall not want a crutch. I shall be forty in two years, and that by some people is considered young."
That was a good lesson for the youth. In such matters, however, he did not spare friend or stranger. It is curious, considering how sturdy a pattern of Englishman was Forster, that all his oldest friends were Irishmen, such as Maclise, Emerson Tennant, Whiteside, Macready, Quain, Foley, Mulready, and many more.
Tennant, who hit upon a compound of chlorine and lime the chloride of lime which was a comparatively cheap chemical product, and answered the purpose better even than chlorine itself.
I don't think its fair, whatever you may say to the contrary." Mrs. Tennant sighed. Alice had always been a little difficult; she was more than difficult at the present moment. But very soon afterwards the welcome bang of the hall door was heard, and the house was free. "Now for a jolly time," said Kathleen. "Tired one, where are you?" "Kathleen, you ought not to call me by that name.
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