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Aston as they started, and after that there was silence. The monotonous click-clack of the horses' feet lulled the tired child into blissful drowsiness.
From the eminence which late years have encompassed with a proletarian suburb, its once noble domain narrowed to the bare acres of a stinted breathing ground, Aston Hall looks forth upon joyless streets and fuming chimneys, a wide welter of squalid strife.
She had inherited the national passion as well as the grace bequeathed by her mother; and even Adelaide was forced to acknowledge that no one in or about North Aston came near to her in this. Edgar, too, danced in the best style of the best kind of English gentleman; and it was really something for the rest to look at when these two "took the floor."
The roads were beastly." Mr. Aston looked at Cæsar and they both smiled. "I've persuaded Sam to open a shop in Stormly and put Jim into it. He says you can't make a living honestly in grocery, but I'd take himself in preference to his word." "You've beaten him after all, old chap."
This man was in the habit of speaking his mind; Hilliard understood that any insistence would only disturb the harmony of the occasion. He waved a hand, smiled good-naturedly, and said no more. About nine o'clock he left the house and walked to Aston Church. While he stood there, waiting for the tram, a voice fell upon his ear that caused him to look round.
A thin, angular man entered, and crossed the room with an apologetic cough. "Is that you, Vespasian?" demanded his master without moving. "Have they come?" "No, sir, but there is a message from the House. I believe Mr. Aston is wanted particularly." "What a nuisance. Why can't they let him alone? He might as well be in office."
But after the first evening Aymer Aston betrayed by no sign whatever that the past had any power to harm him through the medium of little Christopher, and his father grew daily more satisfied and content over the wisdom of their joint action. They stayed in town all that summer. Mr.
Even Cuthbert Aston was not proof against that charm, although in a sense he and Bernard were rivals. For it must have been as evident to Violet Rossall as it was to all onlookers that both Murray and Aston sought her company in preference to that of any other maiden of their acquaintance; which of the two was preferred by her was not so evident, since she seemed to favor both alike.
"Yes, in spite of you both, by reason of his practical, determined, hard-headed nature which he probably inherits from his father, eh?" "You are probably right. I am not in a position to say." "You did not know his parents?" Charles Aston pushed back his chair and looked beyond Peter to the portrait of Aymer.
The Town Hall was placed in the hands of skilful decorators. The interior was, as yet, a mystery; but the pediment fronting Paradise street was fitted with an enormous canvas-covered frame, upon which was emblazoned, in gorgeous, but proper heraldic style, the Royal Arms of England. All along the line of route through the town, and on the road to Aston, rose hundreds of galleries for spectators.
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