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Updated: June 13, 2025
"Then we shall bring an action against you for abducting her." Mrs. Banks smiled gently and pursed her mouth "To avoid a scandal?" she asked. "If you persist in your absurd demands, there will be a scandal in any case," Frank replied curtly. "I suppose my wishes don't count at all?" Brenda put in. "Obviously they don't," Frank said.
He had an almost guilty feeling of having broken an unwritten law, of abducting a princess, and the old Duncan house had seemed to frown protestingly that such an act should have taken place under its windows. If Victoria had been to him an ordinary mortal in expensive furs instead of a princess, he would have snapped his fingers at the pomp and circumstance.
The Browns of Brixton will eclipse anything that Cloyster has previously done, for this reason, that it will out-Cloyster Cloyster. It is Cloyster with improvements. In thus abducting his novel-reading public I shall feel no compunction. His serious verse and his society dialogues bring him in so much that he cannot be in danger of financial embarrassment. Yours sincerely, John Hatton.
When the supra-scapular nerve is contused or stretched in injuries of the shoulder, the spinati muscles are paralysed and wasted, the spine of the scapula is unduly prominent, and there is impairment in the power of abducting the arm and rotating it laterally.
My first was that Banks had brought the car here the night before with the fixed intention of abducting Brenda Jervaise. My second was that the confounded fellow had cautiously removed some essential part of the car's mechanism. My third, that he would have to come back and fetch the car sometime, and that I would then blackmail him into driving me to Hurley Junction.
James tells Balhaldie that he had visited England, and had endeavoured to deliver Alan Breck, 'the murderer of Glenure, to the Government, and to make interest for his own brother, Robin Oig. But Robin was hanged for abducting the heiress of Edenbelly, and Alan Breck escaped from James Mohr with the spolia opima, including 'four snuff-boxes, made, perhaps, by Balhaldie himself.
I may just as well be a kidnapper as not. You must allow me to inform the Judge that I was abducting you, so that he " "How absurd!" "I don't in the least mind. Besides, I too have powerful friends who will see that I am released in a day or two. You "
"What I cannot quite understand," he said, "is the exact meaning of that word 'abduction. Why should I be suspected of forcibly removing a harmless and worthy young man from his regular avocation, and, as you term it, abducting him, which I presume means keeping him bound and gagged and imprisoned? I do not eat young men. I do not even care for the society of young men.
At an early hour, on the morning succeeding these events, Jew Mike called on the Hon. Mr. Tickels, for the purpose of receiving the one hundred dollars, which had been promised him as the reward of his villainy in abducting Fanny Aubrey.
So it was that Muda Saffir was forced to compromise, and be satisfied with the chief's assistance in abducting the girl, for it was not so difficult a matter to convince the head hunter that she really had belonged to the rajah, and that she had been stolen from him by the old man and the doctor. Virginia slept in a room with three Dyak women.
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