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Barrows; and, to the surprise of Willis, he was received most effusively by the quondam Miss Hollister. "Why, Mr. Willis," she said, extending her hand to him. "How delightful to see you again!" "Thank you," said Willis, in some confusion. "I er I am sure it is a very pleasant surprise for me. I er had no idea " "Nor I," returned Mrs. Barrows.
"I will come," answered Betty; then turning bank with, as careless an air as she could summon, "Do you happen to have heard aught of your quondam prisoner, Captain Yorke?" "Yorke!" replied Oliver, avoiding her eye as be stooped to throw a stick from the path, "Yorke! oh, aye, I did hear that he was invalided and went home several months ago.
Her quondam traveling companion stuck his head out of a doorway, the wind blowing his hair forward over his forehead, and cried: "Ingeborg, go below, will you!" "Oh," she groaned. Suddenly she was seized with fury. The ship heeled over on its side as she walked toward him, and she had to take a few skips to keep her balance. "I don't want you to talk to me again," she hissed at him. "Do you hear?
But, as I said before, the faces of his then antagonists albeit quondam friends hardly disguised their thoughts sufficiently. They were forced to consider the country of the man they feared the country to which he had given his name as a factor in their colony; they had to admit it to their financial calculations, and all the time they would fain have crushed the great pioneer under their feet.
But this man, David Sassoon, the Calabasas gambler, quondam cowboy, and chronic brawler, stood in some way close to the different Morgans, and was reputed to have got each of them, at different times, out of more than one troublesome affair, either by sheer force of arms, or through his resourceful cunning. These men were followed by a younger man riding with a very young woman.
So must the quondam editor of the Literary Journal think when he recalls the reminiscences of those bygone days days that were spent in edifying and agreeable association with men and women whose names are inscribed on the roll of Scotland's illustrious sons and daughters.
Weller; for the rather stout lady was no other than the quondam relict and sole executrix of the dead-and-gone Mr. Clarke; 'no, he isn't, and I don't expect him, either. 'I suppose he's drivin' up to-day? said Sam. 'He may be, or he may not, replied Mrs. Weller, buttering the round of toast which the red-nosed man had just finished. 'I don't know, and, what's more, I don't care.
"And the mission?" asked Farr, halting his quondam companion, who had been too intent upon his business to pay heed to passers. "I find thee changed, and no doubt thee, too, finds me changed," sighed Mr. Chick. The mouth of an alley between high buildings afforded a retreat and the breeze blew there fitfully, and Mr. Chick stepped to that oasis of shade in the glare of sunshine.
As the shrewd reader has guessed already, that infamous tinker was the prime agent of evil in this critical turn in the affairs of his quondam customer; for, on his return to his haunts around Hazeldean and the Casino, the tinker had hastened to apprise Mrs.
They did not for the moment recognise their quondam acquaintance in his uniform, so he called "Halt!" The recruits became rigid. "Medical inspection," cried the corporal "Tongues out!" Three tongues were instantly thrust out. "Salute your general," was the next order. This was too much.
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