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The Arbuthnots offered no exception to this very natural law of selection. They could not help remembering how the famous doctor had excelled in literature as in medicine; how he had been not only Physician in Ordinary to Queen Anne and Prince George of Denmark, but a satirist and pamphleteer, a wit and the friend of wits of such wits as Pope and Swift, Harley and Bolingbroke.
But the doctor feels like he ought to go down to the fire, and she's nervous " "The fire?" "Yes'm," said Emma, simply, "the windmill is afire!" "And I sleeping through it all!" Miss Ives was still bewildered, fastening the sash of her cobwebby black Mandarin robe as she followed Emma through the passage that joined her suite to the Arbuthnots'.
Sprung from the Arbuthnots of Montrose, we claim to derive from a common ancestor with the celebrated author of "Martinus Scriblerus."
That was the man with whom he had proposed to link himself in the closest ties of family connection. Albert Fitzallen did not know Mr. Snow; but it might be a question whether it would not be Graham's duty to introduce them to each other. The house at Noningsby was now very quiet. All the visitors had gone, including even the Arbuthnots.
It is almost needless to say that the son of the non-juror and his immediate posterity were staunch Jacobites, one and all. I am not aware that they ever risked or suffered anything for the cause; but they were not therefore the less vehement. Many were the signs and tokens of that dead-and-gone political faith which these loyal Arbuthnots left behind them.
I must say with what delight I view the prospect of having Catholics in Parliament. I am sure it will do more for the happiness of Ireland, and for the strength of the Empire, than any measure that could have been adopted. April 5. Dined with Lady Sandwich and met the Arbuthnots, with whom I had a long talk. She told me the Duke wanted to bring in Lord Chandos, by way of conciliating the Tories.
And then I broke down and a strange doctor in a strange hospital put me together again," she went on with a flashing smile and a sudden change of tone, "and his wholly adorable wife sent me double white violets! And they the Arbuthnots, not the violets were the nicest thing that ever happened to me!" "So that was the way of it?" said the doctor. "That was the way of it."
"The Fredericks, then, if you like. They're completely merged and indistinguishable." "Why not say the Arbuthnots, my dear?" said Mr. Wilkins. "Very well, Mellersh the Arbuthnots. And the Carolines " Both Mr. Wilkins and Mrs. Fisher started. Mr. Wilkins, usually in such complete control of himself, started even more than Mrs.
"VERY good of you but I'm with the Arbuthnots, you know. Thank you, no." "I hoped you would," said Miss Carter, disappointed. "I know you use a motor in town," she answered daringly. "You see I know all about you!" Miss Ives paid to this confession only the small tribute of raised eyebrows and an absent smile.
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