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Harris skipped across to the clothes and tucked them gleefully under his arm; Mr. Brown secured the boots. "When he will come out of this stupor I can't say," continued the doctor. "Keep him perfectly quiet and don't let him see a soul." "Look 'ere " began Mr. Wragg, in a broken voice. "As to diet water," said the doctor, looking round.
But some of you must have seen 'The Firefly. How could such a poor journal afford to pay a young lady one hundred pounds and give her a return ticket by the Engadine express for four silly articles on life in the High Alps? Why, it is ludicrous!" "Pretty hot, I must admit," sniggered Georgie, thinking to make peace with Beryl Wragg; but she seemed to find his humor not to her taste.
"Our old Anglo-Saxon breed, the best in the whole world!" how much that is harsh and ill-favored there is in this best! Wragg!
Twice a ball had whizzed past him; and a small but select party, with a tip-cat of huge dimensions and awesome points, played just out of reach. Mr. Wragg, snapping his eyes nervously, threatened in vain. "Morning, old crusty-patch," said a cheerful voice at his elbow. Mr. Wragg glanced up at the young fisherman towering above him, and eyed him disdainfully.
A girl named Wragg left the workhouse there on Saturday morning with her young illegitimate child. The child was soon afterwards found dead on Mapperly Hills, having been strangled. "Though I am a schoolmaster's son, I confess that school-teaching or school-inspecting is not the line of life I should naturally have chosen.
Roebuck will have a poor opinion of an adversary who replies to his defiant songs of triumph only by murmuring under his breath, Wragg is in custody; but in no other way will these songs of triumph be induced gradually to moderate themselves, to get rid of what in them is excessive and offensive, and to fall into a softer and truer key.
Why, the Wragg girls will be green with envy when they hear of your exploits." He swung round the corner to the bridge. After a smiling glance at Spencer's impassive face, he turned to Helen. "You have come out of the ordeal with flying colors," he said. "That flower you picked on the way up has not withered. Give it to me as a memento." The words were almost a challenge. The girl hesitated.
In Ionia and Attica they were luckier in this respect than "the best race in the world"; by the Ilissus there was "no Wragg, poor thing!" Then he taught us to aim at sincerity in our intercourse with Nature.
There is one monument to a native American, "Charles Wragg, Esq., of South Carolina," the only one, I suspect, in Westminster Abbey, and he acquired this memorial by the most un-American of qualities, his loyalty to his king. He was one of the refugees leaving America in 1777, and being shipwrecked on his passage the monument was put up by his sister.
"Quite right," said the doctor, nodding. "It's a very serious case." "Well, I can't 'ave him 'ere," broke in Mr. Wragg. "It won't be for long," said the doctor, shaking his head. "I can't 'ave him 'ere at all, and, what's more, I won't. Let him go to his own bed," said Mr. Wragg, quivering with excitement. "He is not to be moved," said the doctor, decidedly.
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