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In fact, this might possibly be the case; perhaps I did not say what was necessary, nor in the manner proper to the occasion. All I can answer for is the sentiment which induced me to take up the pen. Shortly after my establishment at Motiers, Travers having every possible assurance that I should be suffered to remain there in peace, I took the Armenian habit.
Just tell Cecilia that she has danced enough with the gentry, and that I have told Farmer Turby's son, a fine young fellow and a capital rider across country, that I expect him to show my daughter that he can dance as well as he rides." QUITTING Mr. Lethbridge, Travers turned with quick step towards the more solitary part of the grounds.
The hours of the night had passed Mrs. Travers by. After flinging herself on her knees, she didn't know why, since she could think of nothing to pray for, had nothing to invoke, and was too far gone for such a futile thing as despair, she had remained there till the sense of exhaustion had grown on her to the point in which she lost her belief in her power to rise.
Strange thing how many girls can get demented when one is looked for. But the man they say he is not safe." "Oh, he's the greatest case we ever had here. He kept us all busy as his audience. He's stage-struck, you know," said the other. "Have you heard anything of a girl named Tavia Travers?" asked Dorothy timidly.
He would gladly have resigned and gone at once, but that would have been resigning under virtual charges: he had to stay, and his wife had to stay with him, and Nellie with her. By this time Nellie Travers did not want to go. She had but one thought now, to make amends to Mr. Hayne for the wrong her thoughts had done him. It was time for Mr.
But prevision, yes; prevision based, not on omens or auguries, but on solid fact on what I have seen and noticed." "Explain yourself, oh, prophetess!" She let the point of her parasol make a curved trail on the gravel, and followed its serpentine wavings with her eyes. "You know our house surgeon?" she asked at last, looking up of a sudden. "What, Travers? Oh, intimately."
"What the deuce did he mean by that, eh?" said the colonel, blankly. "Don't know," said Travers; "suppose we go and inspect the hole?" But before that I had contrived to draw near it myself, in deadly fear lest the Frenchman's last words had contained some innuendo which I had not understood.
She never asks for sympathy or consideration, you understand, but she makes every woman, and man, too, judging by that rich cripple, Mr. Boswell, yearn over her. She'd be the merriest soul on earth, with half a chance, and she's the most capable girl I have: ready for an emergency; never weary. Why, of course, Miss Glynn!" "I'll speak to Doctor Ledyard to-night," said Travers.
Bawtrey's resignation, it must be in favour of an applicant whom he desires to oblige. On hearing this, I rode over to the Park and saw Mr. Travers himself. But he was obdurate to my pleadings. All I could get him to say was, 'Let the stranger who interests himself in the matter come and talk to me.
The Colonel drew nearer reluctantly knelt down. "Be quick then!" he said. Travers nodded. His head was thrown back against Beatrice's shoulder. With fumbling, trembling fingers he drew a plain gold ring from his pocket and thrust it into the Colonel's hand. "Look at that!" he whispered. "Look at the inscription." Carmichael turned to the feeble light. No one spoke or moved.
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