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Those of you who have seen a hound at fault can imagine the companion at this moment: irresolute, tense, desperately anxious to find and follow up the right scent. Compromise, that useful refuge, came to her aid. "It is difficult to know," she faltered. Then Mrs. de Tracy gave her the lead.
With reference to Emily no, no I could see at once that General Tracy never had any serious intention to part with Emily; but she had all manner of masters at home, and soon made extraordinary progress.
He began well but had not sufficient will power to resist the tempter and like many a promising youth who went out into the world with a mother's prayers ringing in his ears, stumbled ere he reached the first milestone on life's chequered road. Hubert Tracy was to a certain degree trying to make amends for the wrong he had done towards himself and towards his fellow man.
'I am not as bad as that. I was only thinking and wishing that I were rich and could sometime give you and grandma a home as handsome as Tracy Park. How would you like it? 'First-rate, if you were there, Jerry replied; 'but if you were not I shouldn't like it at all.
A blush rose in Brady's white cheeks and flowed slowly backward to his ears and upward toward his forehead, but he said nothing and began to eat his food under the embarrassment of a general silence and the sense that all eyes were fastened upon him. Barrow whispered to Tracy: "The old man's been waiting for that. He wouldn't have missed that chance for anything."
Tracy pointed out as the home of Celia Thaster, who, she told them, was a poetess who had written so feelingly of the sea, and who had told, in a pretty poem, how in the years gone by she had often lighted with her own hands the light in the lighthouse which they could see on White Island, a short distance from them.
This conversation took place when the convoy was about four or five days' sail from the West Indies. "The commodore is signalling, sir," cried young Lord Mountstephen, who was acting as signal midshipman, "`A sail to the southward! the Champion to chase and ascertain her character." "Make the answering signal," said Mr Foley. "Tracy, go and report to the captain."
'What is it? Mrs. Tracy asked, as she detected in him a disposition to reconsider. 'Will Tom be up in the hall? Harold asked. 'Of course not, Mrs. Tracy replied. 'He will be in the parlors until ten o'clock, and then he will go to bed. Why do you ask?
Henderson was astonishing everybody by a fit of diligence, and even Howard Tracy seemed less totally indifferent to his place than usual. So willingly did the boys work, that Mr Paton had not half the number of punishments to set, and perhaps his late misfortune had infused a little more tenderness and consideration into a character always somewhat stern and unbending.
Marguerite Verne was, indeed, an object of pity as she sat with her eyes fixed upon the wall opposite, while a look of anguish now settled down upon her features, and made them rigid as death. "Don't worry, darling. I cannot bear to see you thus. If Hubert Tracy is not willing to settle papa's affairs without sacrificing your happiness, why let it go.
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