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She is very beautiful, and I am so glad I have seen her. They are stopping at " He hesitated, and looked at Neil, who, grateful for his defense of Bessie, unhesitatingly replied: "No. Abingdon road, near High street" "Thank you," Jack said, making a mental memorandum of the place, with a view to call, even if Bessie had said he better not.
"As your father's oldest friend," he continued, "I feel called upon to remark that it isn't usual for strangers to thrust their attentions upon a bereaved family." "Oh," said Phil Abingdon with animation, "do I understand that this is also your opinion, Mr. Harley?" "As a man of the world," declared Doctor McMurdoch, gloomily, "it cannot fail to be."
Mathews's gallery at Highgate; which, with the exception of the Hogarth pictures, a few years since exhibited in Pall Mall, was the most delightful collection I ever gained admission to. Abingdon, whom I have not seen, and the rest, whom having seen, I see still there.
He had knocked several times before the door was opened by the woman to whom the girl Jones had called on the occasion of Harley's visit. "I am a police officer," said the detective inspector, "and I have called to see a woman named Jones, formerly in the employ of Sir Charles Abingdon." "Polly's gone," was the toneless reply. "Gone? Gone where?"
All the other Lords, however, who were present, manifested such a dislike to the sentiments of the Earl of Abingdon, that he withdrew this motion. After this the hearing of evidence on the resolution of the House of Commons was resumed; and seven persons were examined before the close of the session.
She mistrusted events of any kind, and had probably remained single owing to her inability to make up her mind to such a momentous decision as is necessarily involved by matrimony. She had never been out of England, and now could seldom be got to leave home; whenever she quitted her own house something was sure to happen, and Miss Abingdon disapproved of happenings.
Past the Houses of Parliament, through Old Palace Yard, with the Abbey on their left, they swung away into Abingdon Street, whence suddenly they dived into the maze of backways, great and mean, which lies to the south of Victoria.
He stole the lands of the monks of Abingdon, but of what service were moats, and walls, and dungeons, and instruments of torture, against the powers that side with monks? The Chronicle of Abingdon has a very diverting account of Robert's punishment and conversion.
"Miss Abingdon," replied Harley, "when the worst trials of this affair are over, I want to have a long talk with you. Until then, won't you believe that I am acting for the best?" But Phil Abingdon's glance was unrelenting. "In your opinion it may be so, but you won't do me the honour of consulting mine." Harley had half anticipated this attitude, but had hoped that she would not adopt it.
It was essentially and delightfully feminine. Yet in the decorations and in the arrangement of the furniture there was a note of independence which was almost a note of defiance. Phyllis Abingdon, an appealingly pathetic figure in her black dress, rose to greet the inspector. "Don't be alarmed, Miss Abingdon," he said, kindly.
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