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Yet, while convinced of the immense importance of Malta, the Addington Cabinet did not insist on retaining it, if the French Government would "suggest some other equivalent security by which His Majesty's object in claiming the permanent possession of Malta may be accomplished and the independence of the island secured conformably to the spirit of the 10th Article of the Treaty of Amiens."
"As sure as I live," Honey continued indignantly, "that bird's wings must have extended twenty feet above its head." "Oh, get out!" said Ralph Addington perfunctorily. "As sure as I'm sitting here," Honey went on earnestly. "I heard a woman's laugh. Any of you others get it?" The sense of humor, it seemed, was not extinct. Honey's companions burst into roars of laughter.
The Chronicles of Addington, B. Fletcher Robinson. The Mystery of the Steel Disk, Broughton Brandenburg. The Rajah's Diamond, R.L. Stevenson. The Doctor, his Wife, and the Clock, Anna Katharine Green. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, A. Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles, A. Conan Doyle. A Double-Barrelled Detective Story, Mark Twain. Gallegher, Richard Harding Davis.
Somehow his smile that flashing smile which showed so many teeth against a background of dark beard pointed his words uncomfortably. Of them all, Ralph Addington was perhaps, the least popular. This was strange; for he was a thorough sport, a man of a wide experience.
"I've been approached," he said, as if the word made it the more remote. "What did you say?" "Said I wouldn't. Jeff, I believe you started the confounded thing." "I've talked a lot," said Jeff. "But any fool knows you've got to do it. Choate, you're about the only hope of tradition and decency here in Addington. Don't you know that?" "I'm a weak man," said Alston, looking up at him unhappily.
Lord Malmesbury had already obtained the Order of the Bath, and a barony; he was now raised to an earldom, with a viscounty, by the title of Lord Fitzharris; and it was in Pitt's contemplation to send him once more to Paris, when his ministry was suddenly brought to a conclusion, and Mr Addington was appointed premier; by whom the peace, or rather the unlucky truce of Amiens, was made.
"We can't get too homesick for old Addington while we have you to look at," said he. She stopped working for one pod's space and looked at him. "Are you homesick for old Addington?" she asked. "Alston Choate says that. He says it's a homesick world." "He's dead right," said Jeff. "What do you want of old Addington?" said she. "What do we need we haven't got?"
Three of the other four men Honey Smith, Frank Merrill, Pete Murphy actually turned and looked at Ralph Addington. Perhaps that movement served to break the hideous, hypnotic spell of the sea. "Right-o!" Honey Smith agreed weakly. It was audible in his voice, the effort to talk sanely of sane things, and in the slang of every day. "Addington's on. Let's can it!
She conformed beautifully, but you would have felt she understood your not conforming. She never came to grief over the neutralities of the place, and you realised it was because she expressed so few opinions. You might have said she had taken Addington for what it was and exhausted it long ago. Her gaze was an absent, yet, of late years, a placid one.
Addington, to the Duke of York, and the King. It has been sometimes stated that these letters were from the pen of Mr. Sheridan; but the first of the series was written by Sir Robert Wilson, and the remainder by Lord Hutchinson.
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