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Just as the orchestra were making their final plunge into the finale of the 'Wopples' Waltz', M. Vandeloup, cool and calm as usual, strolled into the theatre, and, seeing a vacant seat beside Villiers, walked over and took it. 'Good evening, my friend, he said, touching Villiers on the shoulder. 'Enjoying the play, eh?
'I understand, he said, in a taunting tone; 'you want it for your lover. 'My lover? What do you mean? 'What I say, he retorted boldly, 'all Ballarat knows the position that young Frenchman holds in the Pactolus claim. Mrs Villiers felt herself grow faint the accusation was so horrible.
Little Betty was as charming as ever, but her mother seemed quite jealous of her and treated her ill. When I reached Konigsberg I sold my travelling carriage and took a place in a coach for Warsaw. We were four in all, and my companions only spoke German and Polish, so that I had a dreadfully tedious journey. At Warsaw I went to live with Villiers, where I hoped to meet Campioni.
However, he saw that Villiers did not understand, so he rapidly sketched an altar with a priest standing before it blessing the people. 'Oh, a priest, eh? a minister? said Villiers, nodding his head to show he understood. 'She's taken the nugget to show it to a minister! Wonder who it is?
It was a most spectacular entrance and reminded me for all the world of a scene in a melodrama where the hero dashes up, bare-headed, on a foam-flecked horse, and saves the heroine or the old homestead or the family fortune, as the case may be. While lunching with Sir Francis Villiers and the staff of the British Legation, two English correspondents approached and asked Mr.
I, with one Captain Van Braam, became a hostage. Monsieur Coulon Villiers, the French commander, gave his bond that we should be delivered up when an officer and two cadets, who were prisoners with us, should be sent on. It was a choice between Mr. Mackaye of the Regulars and Mr. Washington, or Mr. Van Braam and myself.
Again, on the 11th January, the President telegraphed to Lord Kimberley through the Orange Free State Consul in London, suggesting that Sir H. de Villiers, the Chief Justice at the Cape, should be appointed a Commissioner to go to the Transvaal to settle matters. Oddly enough, about the same time the same proposition emanated from the Dutch party in the Cape Colony, headed by Mr.
Coke only was absent, who in all vulgar opinions was there expected. This exclusion from her party was a direct and a very public insult to Coke on the part of his wife, and, through consent, on that of the King also. All Coke had gained by his daughter's marriage with Sir John Villiers was restoration to the Privy Council.
'I must apologise for being late, Mrs Villiers, he said, shaking hands with his hostess; 'but business, you know, the pleasure of business. 'Now, said Madame, quickly, 'I hope you have come to the business of pleasure. 'Very epigrammatic, my dear lady, said Calton, in his high, clear voice; 'pray introduce me.
I think, miss Villiers, your father must be just such another man as Dr. Wheelding, our worthy rector; just so I think he would have soothed the troubled conscience of my repentant mother. How feelingly, how kindly he used to talk of mercy and forgiveness! My heart was softened by my own misfortunes, and the sight of my penitent suffering mother.
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