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The blossoms are pretty white with dark spots and they are very fragrant. A field of beans in flower gives us one of the most delightful of all country scents. There are many other flowers besides the Clover in Ashmead to-day, and this afternoon we will look at some that grow among the grass. One of these you may perhaps call a weed, yet it is one of the most beautiful wild flowers in England.
They couldn't have tasted it." "Well, it is like ourselves, improved by traveling. That has been twice to India." "It will never go again past me," said Ashmead, gayly. "My mouth is a cape it will never weather." He went to his inn. Before he had been there ten minutes, up rattled a smart servant in a smart dogcart. "Hamper for Joseph Ashmead, Esquire." "Anything to pay?"
Indeed, the only applause that I have heard in this theater to-night. Ashmead ahead of Gounod, so far." Ina Klosking put both hands before her face, and uttered a little moan. She had really a soul above these artifices. "So, then," said she, "if they do receive me, it will be out of charity." "No, no; but on your first night you must have two strings to your bow." "But I have only one.
"Yes, but," said Ashmead, "you must promise me one thing: not to let him know how much money you have won, and not to go, like a goose, and give him a lot at once. It never pays to part with power in this wicked world. You give him twenty pounds a day to play with whenever he is cleaned out. Then the money will last your time, and he will never leave you."
Ashmead was still talking to her of the young swell and his system. He explained it to her, and how it had failed. "Not but what," said he, "there is a great deal in it most evenings. But to-day there are no runs; it is all turn and turn about. If it would rain, now, you would see a change." "Well," said Ina, "I will bet a few pounds on red, then on black, till these runs begin."
"Yes, yes; but what am I to do for you?" asked Ina, getting a little uneasy and suspicious. "What! didn't I tell you?" said Ashmead, with cool effrontery. "Why, only to sing for me in this little opera, that is all." And he put his hands in his pockets, and awaited thunder-claps. "Oh, that is all, is it?" said Ina, panting a little, and turning two great, reproachful eyes on him.
Like coquettes in general, who have had their fling at the proper time, she makes a pretty good wife; but she has one fault she is too hard upon girls who flirt. Mr. Ashmead flourishes. Besides his agency she sometimes treats for a new piece, collects a little company, and tours the provincial theaters. He always plays them a week at Taddington, and with perfect gravity loses six pounds per night.
Take it; and keep out of my sight till you have wasted it." He dashed the notes proudly down. She turned her back on him, and glided into another room. When she returned, he was gone, and the hundred pounds had managed to accompany him. He went straight from her to Ashmead and talked big. He would sue for restitution of conjugal rights. "Don't do that, for my sake," said Ashamed.
I cannot attempt to give all the strong points of a speech which bristled with strong points at almost every turn. To the House its entire character must have come as a surprise. The mass of members that crowded every bench, and filled the vacancies which Ashmead Bartlett had made Mr. Gladstone sitting attentive on the Treasury Bench Mr.
The power, without violence, and the grandeur with which she said this would have brought down the house had she spoken it in a play without a note of music; and Ashmead drew back respectfully, but chuckled internally at the idea of this Minerva giving change in a cafe'. And now her cue was coming. She ordered everybody out of the entrance not very ceremoniously, and drew well back.
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