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Charles Amory, as we call him, Dr. Charles Amory, as he is entitled to be called, then, as now and always, a favorite with all about him. He had come to us from the schools of Germany, and brought with him recollections of the teachings of Blumenbach and the elder Langenbeck, father of him whose portrait hangs in our Museum. Dr. Lewis was our companion as well as our teacher.
Pendennis knows no more of this business than the babe unborn, sir," cried the Major, aghast. "No more than Lady Clavering, than Miss Amory does." "Tell that to the marines, Major," replied the valet; "that cock won't fight with me." "Do you doubt my word, you villain?" "No bad language. I don't care one twopence'a'p'ny whether your word's true or not.
Willie availed himself of the offered seat no further than to lean lightly upon it with one hand, while he still remained standing. "You have changed, sir," continued he, "since I last saw you." "Changed! Yes, I am," said the other, absently. "Your health, I fear, is not " "My health is excellent," said Mr. Amory, interrupting his remark. "It is a long time, sir, since we met.
But the caress was not a cold or rough one, and when he turned and strode away the flush was still on his sallow cheek. The Stornaway parlours were very brilliant that evening in a Willowfield sense. Not a Burton, a Larkin, or a Downing was missing, even Miss Amory Starkweather being present.
"If I should sail to-day," observed St. George, quite as if he were boarding a Sound steamer, "I'd like to take on at least two men. And I'd like Amory and Cawthorne. You could hardly go yourself, could you, Mr. Chillingworth?" "No, I couldn't," growled Chillingworth, "I've got to keep my tastes down. And I've got to save up to buy kid gloves for the staff. Look here " he added, and hesitated.
Jarvo saw Amory, who beckoned; and in an instant the car was beside them and the two men were over the back of the tonneau in a flash. "That way," cried St. George, with no time to waste on the miracle of Jarvo's appearance, "that way there. Where you see the white." At a touch the motor plunged away into the fragrant darkness. Amory looked back.
The retired East Indians, who are to be found in considerable force in most of the continental towns frequented by English, spoke with much scorn of the disreputable old lawyer and indigo-smuggler her father, and of Amory, her first husband, who had been mate of the Indiaman in which Miss Snell came out to join her father at Calcutta.
What did he care how long St. George stayed away? "I am Tobias Amory," he said, "of New York. Most people don't know about the Sidonian ghost part. But I've told you because I thought, perhaps, you might be the Pitiful Princess." Antoinette's heart was beating pleasantly. Of New York! How oh, how did he get here?
Miss Amory had remained after the other people had gone away, and she was listening to the wind, too. "We are both old women," she had said. "We have both lived long enough to have passed through afternoons like this more than once before. Howsoever bad other hours may be, it seems to me that these are always the worst." "Just after everything has been taken away," Mrs.
When Susan was in trouble the child was a tender little angel to her. Lord! what a pure little heart it was!" "As pure as young Eve's in the Garden of Eden as pure as young Eve's," murmured Baird. "Just that!" said Miss Amory, rather sharply. "How do you know it?" And she turned and looked at him. "You have heard her brother say a good deal of her." "Yes, yes," Baird answered.
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