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Then my nephews and I were playfellows long ago." "I imagine it is a taste that will not last." "Perhaps not." "Miss Brereton and Lady Alice, with Errington and myself, are going to ride over to Melford Abbey to-morrow. You will, I hope, be of the party?" "Thank you. I do not ride." "It is rather refreshing to meet a young lady who is not horsy, but it is a loss to yourself not to ride."
And you must never think, dear, that we regard you as 'a poor relation. Remember that your father is my brother, and whatever I give you has been paid for, and far more than paid for, years ago." "Thank you, auntie; I am glad to know that," she said quietly.
"It only shows how easy it is to misjudge one's fellow-creeturs. When you went away sudden four years ago, I says to myself, 'Ben Prout, I says, 'make up your mind to it, that two quid has gorn." The smile vanished from Mr. Carter's face, and a sudden chill descended upon the company. "Two quid?" he said, stiffly. "What two quid?" "The two quid I lent you," said Mr. Prout, in a pained voice.
He broke out suddenly in anger: "What's eatin' you all? Why don't you go out an' help me find the girl? These whatfors an' whyfors can wait, I reckon." Blister dropped a bomb. "She's found." "Found!" Houck stared at the fat man. "Who found her? Where? When?" "Coupla hours ago. Here in this r-room.
Her cheek-bones were painted that afternoon with the hectic of fever: somewhere in the hollows of those cheeks were buried the dimples of long ago; but their graves were forgotten. Her lustrous eyes were still beautiful, though the orbits were deeper than before.
As it is, it does not seem to matter one way or the other. Still, as you say, it is very singular altogether its coming into my hands;" and he took out the letter. It began: "Sir, two days ago I was with the trumpeter of my troop when you passed by with two other officers.
Indeed, we visited some places which a few years ago were famous for the beauty, size, and multiplicity of their salmon; but we were told on our arrival, that, not a fish was now to be caught or seen, from the mouths to the sources of these rivers. Early in the morning, by daylight, I heard R and P pulling on their jack-boots, and winding and unwinding their tackle.
Forester thought proper, nobody knows why, to run away from them, some months ago; the only reason I could ever learn was that he did not like to live amongst gentlemen: and he has been living ever since incognito, amongst blackguards, and we see the fruits of it." Mackenzie eagerly handed the summons, as soon as it was signed, to a constable; and Mr. W directed the constable to Mr.
Memories of a white traveller, Mr. Stanley, of course, who crossed the forest years ago, still linger among them." The discovery of these forest Pygmies has directed attention to the Bushmen of South Africa, a desert-dwelling race, long known though comparatively little regarded in their ethnological significance.
Nearly a century ago, the Church Missionary Society of England lent a helping hand to the Syrian Church, and has brought new life and progressive energy, and a new spiritual power and ambition, into a portion of that decrepit type of ancient Christianity.
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