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In expressing such an opinion, however, I am far from wishing to utter anything which may be irritating or offensive to your feelings." "Upon my word then, I never heard a word about it till this moment! Poor Harry! And is Fanny much cut up?" "Miss Wyndham is much afflicted." "I wouldn't for worlds annoy her, or press on her at such a moment.
Fifty eyes hungered for the blood of Wyndham bimbashi; not because he was Wyndham bimbashi, but because the heathen in these men cried out for sacrifice; and what so agreeable a sacrifice as the Englishman who had led them into this disaster and would die so well had they ever seen an Englishman who did not die well?
And silk in bales, and boxes of copper-plate, one of which I saw opened. Having seen this, which was as noble a sight as ever I saw in my life, I away on board the other ship in despair to get the pleasure-boat of the gentlemen there to carry me to the fleet. They were Mr. Ashburnham and Colonell Wyndham; but pleading the King's business, they did presently agree I should have it.
But he did in America quite as much as Sir Charles Wyndham and Sir Henry Irving in England to elevate the personality, the social and intellectual standing of the actor and the stage, effecting in a lifetime a revolution in the attitude of the people and the clergy of both countries to the theater and all things in it. This was surely enough for one man in any craft or country.
He mentioned casually that Lady Grace Lawrence, Miss Deyncourt, and Miss Wyndham were to be of the party, which details he imagined might have an interest for her amid her graver reflections. The subject of Ruth's coming certainly had a prominent place in his own graver reflections.
Then it was true you suspected him?" "It was true." And then the captain told his companion the story of the complication of misunderstandings which had led him almost to the point of denouncing the boy as the culprit; at the end of which Bloomfield said, in a more friendly tone than he had yet assumed, "It was a shave, certainly. Young Wyndham ought to be grateful to you.
But Violet had already snatched up a bath-towel which she draped about her with scarf-like effect. "This will do quite well and is infinitely more artistic. Pray come in, Dr. Wyndham! The patient is quite ready for you." Max came in. He scarcely looked at either girl, but halted just inside the room, holding the door wide open. "One at a time, Miss Campion, please!" he said curtly.
"For Heaven's sake, no! that's ten times worse." "Well, her lover?" "That's at any rate English: but say, her accepted husband that'll be true and plain: if you do that I think you will manage to see her, and then " "Well, then for that'll be the difficult part." "Oh, when you see her, one simple word will do: Fanny Wyndham loves plain dealing.
Topeka decided which of the Aitchison girls he preferred, and gave her his arm, so that the other fell to the lot of Sam Wyndham, while Mrs. Sam and Sybil Brandon came out escorted by Vancouver, who noticed with some dismay that the party was "a man short." The moment he saw Joe talking to the solitary skater, he knew that the latter must be Harrington, who had gone to Cambridge and come across.
Some idea of the damage done to horses by such raids as that of Sir Percy Wyndham, may be gained from the morning reports of officers on the day after the return to camp in Washington. I find that out of eighty horses in my troop only twenty were fit for duty, part of which had been left in camp and did not accompany the expedition.
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