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Her cottage, which was one of the largest in the island, was fitted up with more taste and comfort than was usually found in others, and everything about it bore the marks of competency and good taste. She had but lately married Rolf Morton, who had, a year or two before, been left a small property by his friend and guardian, Captain Andrew Scarsdale.
Reverse them and 'A.J. stand for A. Jones. By the way, what does he claim the 'A' means? Is it Andrew?" "It means nothing at all," said Patsy. "He told us so." "I see. You caught him unprepared. That isn't like Jack. He is always on guard." Both Patsy and Uncle John were by this time sorely perplexed.
It was in the hands of the Highlanders. Jacobite Edinburgh went wild with delight over its hero Prince. He entered Holyrood with the white rose in his bonnet and the star of St. Andrew on his breast, through enthusiastic crowds that fought eagerly for a nearer sight of his face or the privilege of touching his hand.
At that time Andrew's salary of thirty dollars a week, earned in a large savings-bank of which he was one of many book-keepers, covered the family's needs. Mr. Webb had died when his son was sixteen, leaving something under two thousand dollars and a furnished flat in Harlem. For a time the outlook was gloomy. Andrew left school and went to work.
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Labouchere rankled for many days in Andrew's mind. Had he been proposing for the great statesman's hand he could not have felt it more. Perhaps he did not make sufficient allowance for Mr. Labouchere; it is always so easy to advise. There were moments when Andrew said to himself that he had nothing more to live for.
Andrew Drewett was delighted with an opportunity of doing something for the man who saved his life, and my only fear was of your obstinacy." "After all I have heard from Andrew Drewett, beloved Lucy, you never need fear anything from my obstinacy hereafter.
In Avignon, however the cause may go, Cattrina purposes to snare and make her his, which will be easy, for there he has many friends and she has none." "Except God!" exclaimed Hugh, grinding his teeth. "And Sir Andrew Arnold," broke in Dick, "who, like some others, is, I think, one of His ministers. Still, we had better be riding, master." "Nay, nay," cried Nicholas in a hoarse scream.
But, at last, he saw that there was no chance of this, and even the kind Andrew refused to pay any more of his debts, or to help him out of any more scrapes, so he disappeared, nobody knows where; but everybody rejoiced that he was out of the way." "What was the sad story of which you spoke, Marie?" asked her brother. "I want to hear that, too."
Andrew observed that several of these wrote something on a piece of paper which lay on the table with a pencil beside it, before taking their seats. He stretched himself in the direction of this paper, but subsided as he caught the eyes of two of the company riveted on his neck. From that time until he left the rooms one member or other was staring at his neck.