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Vessels from Sydney, bound to Port Lincoln, may pass through Backstairs Passage, and proceed according to the foregoing directions, or by keeping well to the southward, pass outside Kangaroo Island, until they arrive in longitude 136 degrees E., when they may shape a course either to pass between Gambier's and Thistle's Islands, or else for Cape Catastrophe, taking care to give the Neptune Islands a wide berth, and then proceed according to either of the foregoing directions."
He was not over-nice in his choice of means, he knew men, was very capable of finding his way up the backstairs, and did not hesitate when need arose to calumniate others boldly, and thus he had before now won the day in many a battle against his fellow-artists of distinction.
'Only to-night! only to-night! reiterated Frances. 'There! he's coming; I hear his step in the hall! Let me out this way! and so saying, she darted out of a door that led to the backstairs, and disappeared. 'She has refused him! said Mrs Gaskoin. 'I confess I am amazed. But Major Elliott met them with a smiling face. 'What has become of Frances? said he.
For thousands of years we have been paying, and petting, and obeying, and worshipping quacks who told us they had the key of the backstairs, and could smuggle us up them; and in spite of all our disappointments, we will honour, and glorify, and adore, and beatify, and translate, and apotheotise you likewise, on the chance of your knowing something about the backstairs, that we may all go on pilgrimage to it; and, even if we cannot get up it, lie at the foot of it, and cry
If the old dealer, instead of going down by the backstairs, had taken the front staircase, he would never have heard Henrietta's agony, and the poor child would have been lost. If Crochard's ball had been a few lines nearer the heart, Daniel would have been killed. And still the old dealer was not quite satisfied.
"The last christening I was at was my own," said Black Tom, "when I was made an in inheriter, but I've never inherited yet." "That's truth enough," said an asthmatic voice from the backstairs. "Well, the last christening I was at was at Kimberley," said Pete, "and I was the parzon myself that day. Yes, though, Parzon Pete. And godfather and godmother as well, and the baby was Peter Quilliam, too.
He was not over-nice in his choice of means, he knew men, was very capable of finding his way up the backstairs, and did not hesitate when need arose to calumniate others boldly, and thus he had before now won the day in many a battle against his fellow-artists of distinction.
By his vast labours our horizon has broadened beyond the backstairs of the Palace and the benches of the Senate House in Rome to the wide lands north and east and south of the Mediterranean, and we have begun to realize the true achievements of the Empire.
But Amy was already half way up the backstairs and paused to make a face at her. "Taffy!" she cried succinctly. Five minutes later the three girls, in various attitudes of impatience, were waiting for Grace while she still primped before the mirror. "Just one minute more I give you," stated Mollie, regarding her wrist watch frowningly.
"It wouldn't be honest I should be robbing you; I'm not sure that I haven't already," she half laughed, through mounting tears, as she put her case. Little Juliet would not work, would not obey. Her poor, little, drifting existence floated aimlessly between the kitchen and the lingerie, and all the groping tendrils ofher curiosity were fastened about the doings of the backstairs.
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