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"Then our teetotal habits do not interfere at all with our guests." "Not at all," added both of them. "Did you know that the captain of your consort from Borneo was a commander in the P. & O. service, Mr. Belgrave?" asked Captain Ringgold. "I did not till this evening; I knew that he was a gentleman, and that was all that I wished to know," replied Louis.
"Mary Belgrave! Can it be possible? I knew the family had become poor; but not so poor as this!" And Mr. Edwards, much disturbed in mind, walked uneasily about the floor. But soon pausing, he said "And so her mother is dead!" "Yes.
"I suppose you know all about cinnamon, Mrs. Belgrave," said Sir Modava, as they were looking at the trees. "I only know enough about it to put it in my apple-pies when I make them." "This island produces the finest article in the world. It is a very old spice, mentioned in the Old Testament, though I forget the name by which it is there called," added the Indian gentleman.
In my mind I endorsed Mrs. Grant's sotto voce remark as she left the room: "No wonder the house is like a King's house, when the mistress is a Princess!" "A Princess!" That was it. The idea seemed to satisfy my mind, and to bring back in a wave of light the first moment when she swept across my vision at the ball in Belgrave Square.
"That arrangement would suit me much better," added Mrs. Belgrave. "I have been groaning at the necessity of going home without seeing the Holy Land. I shall keep this plan in my mind as one to be carried out in a couple of years if my son does not object to it." "The Guardian-Mother shall not go out of commission until this voyage is completed," replied Louis promptly.
The young men wandered through the adjoining square that queer place without palings, and with marble walks arranged in black and white lozenges. There were a great many benches, crowded with shabby-looking people, and the travelers remarked, very justly, that it was not much like Belgrave Square.
"I could give you the Arabic names of some of the surroundings as we proceed," said the captain, who had taken a position where he could observe the movements of the vessel, and it enabled him to look into the pilot-house through the after windows when he desired to do so. "Please don't, Captain Ringgold!" exclaimed Mrs. Belgrave. "It makes my jaws ache even to hear them."
Sir Justin Wallingford sat in the drawing-room at Belgrave Square with one of these ladies on either side of him. He was a tall, gaunt man with a grizzled black beard, a long nose, and such a formidably solemn expression that ambitious parents were in the habit of wishing that their offspring might some day be as wise as Sir Justin Wallingford looked.
Belgrave will speak with you since you desire it," said Captain Scott, as soon as he realized that the boat's crew did not intend to board the steamer. He walked over to the port side of the deck, where he could still command a clear view of the boat all the time; and he did not take his eyes from it long enough to wink.
'You know all? I said; 'you know that she is dead. 'Alas! yes. At that moment the doctor came into the cabin, and my mother retired. 'When did you last see Wilderspin? I asked Mr. Finch. 'Before leaving England to join a friend in Paris he went to Belgrave Square to get tidings of you, and I was there. 'He told you what had occurred to make me ill?
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