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"Thank you for telling me this," he said at last. And then, laying his hand on Clifford's shoulder, he added, "Tell me one thing more: are you by chance a little in love with the Baroness?" "No, sir!" said Clifford, almost shaking off his hand. The first sunday that followed Robert Acton's return from Newport witnessed a change in the brilliant weather that had long prevailed.
To Acton's intense alarm, the snow had recommenced, and the wind swept it down the fells full into their faces. Acton was afraid that he might make a mistake if the snow became so heavy as to blot out the landscape, and, knowing that to do so might have terrible consequences, he nervously forced the pace. Senior responded gamely. "Keep well behind, old man. You'll dodge the snow better.
Stand back, you others." Jack came back. "Now, you pig, get up and apologize to this gentleman for having knocked him into the snow-heap. I suppose your pig's eyes couldn't see he was only half your size." Acton got hold of the fellow by the collar and jerked him to his feet. "Apologize." The fellow would not understand; he snivelled obstinately, and struggled aimlessly in Acton's grasp.
Amory's in gymnastics; and, altogether, Biffen's House is, thanks to Acton's help, perhaps the most distinguished in the school. A jollier going away for the Christmas holidays had not taken place for an age.
Acton's eyes twinkled, and the men who were his guests looked at one another meaningly. "Well," answered one of them, "I guess there is an explanation, though I didn't think Martial was that kind of man." Nasmyth said nothing, but he saw Mrs. Acton's face flush with anger and disdain, and surmised that it was most unlikely that she would forgive the unfortunate Martial.
And here, gentlemen," added Floyd, with a promiscuous and comprehensive bow all round, "if I may speak my mind about the business " "Go down, sir!" said Mr. Sharp, who began to be afraid of truths. "Pardon me, this may be of importance," remarked Roger Acton's friend; "say what you have to say, young man." "Well, then, gentlemen and my lord, I mean to say thus much.
Acton's gesture was expressive of resignation. "I guessed it. However, it seems to me that young man has quite enough friends to give him a shove here and there already. To begin with, there's Wisbech." "What would Wisbech do?" "Not much." And Acton smiled understandingly. "He means to let his nephew feel his own feet. He's a sensible man.
Is this the earliest blessing of that luck which many long for the finding of a crock of gold? We would not enlarge upon the scene; a painful one at all times, when man forgets his high prerogative, and drowns his reason in the tankard: but, in a Roger Acton's case, lately so wise, temperate, and patient, peculiarly distressing. Its chief features were these.
Acton's desperate idea was to overturn the carriage into the hedge before the horses could reach the bridge, for he felt he could no more pull them up than he dare let them go. There was just a chance for the lady if she were overturned into the bank or hedge, but none whatever if she were thrown at the bridge.
She insisted that the studied inaction of the papal nuncio during the Commune caused the murder of Darboy, Archbishop of Paris, who was hated by the extreme clerical party on account of his coolness toward infallibility and sundry other dogmas advocated by the Jesuits. Lecky thought Lord Acton's old article in the "North British Review" the best statement yet made on the St.
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