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The lips, however, had their old trick of smiling, though the smile which greeted Ebn Ezra Bey had a melancholy which touched the desert-worn, life-spent old Arab as he had not been touched since a smile, just like this, flashed up at him from the weather-stained, dying face of quaint Benn Claridge in a street of Damascus.
In pondering on the trammels of responsibility the sour thought occurred to him, as it had many times in the past year, that commanding a town was a different proposition from being ruler of the Jefferson P. Benn on the high seas with the odds in favor of the Benn. The Cap'n had never visited that retired part of the town called "Purgatory." He found Mr.
Both Henry and I trust that you are not already getting into dissipated ways, and that you will remember that you belong to a respectable family, which will have to bear a large share of any disgrace into which you may fall, or be led." Then there was a postscript. "Eliza Benn is a person for whom I have a great regard; and I hear that her husband holds quite an excellent situation in Mr.
Benn, perhaps aware that his situation demanded a more punctilious attitude, sternly revolved upon the parapet of his high collar inthe direction of Mrs. Mears's glance. "What, that fellow all alone over there? Why, he's not French; he's an American," he then proclaimed with a perceptible relaxing of the facial muscles. "Oh!" murmured Mrs. Mears, as perceptibly disappointed, and Mr.
Good morrow, Davy. Can you not hear me call? I have called thee so often of late! Good morrow! Good morrow!... I doff my hat, Davy at last to God!" David's face whitened. All his visions had been true visions, his dreams true dreams. Brave Benn Claridge had called to him at his door "Good morrow! Good morrow! Good morrow!" Had he not heard the knocking and the voice? Now all was made clear.
The Black-and-Tans, who, like the Most High, are no respecters of persons, called on the judge to descend, using the quaint colloquial formula: "Come down, you Irish bastard; put up your hands." Captain Wedgwood Benn does not unfortunately possess a twentieth-century sense of humour, and he did not see this particular joke.
'It's a strange thing that I suld hear him benn here wi' the door steekit, an' your door open at the verra door-cheek o' the ither, an' you no hear him, Betty. And me sae deif as weel! ''Deed, mem, retorted Betty, losing her temper a little, 'I can be as deif 's ither fowk mysel' whiles. When Betty grew angry, Mrs. Falconer invariably grew calm, or, at least, put her temper out of sight.
"Neeps is neither here nor there," said the girl; and taking up her basket, she was going to leave the shop. "Bide a bit, my lass," cried Bruce. "The mistress wad like to see ye. Jist gang benn the hoose to her wi' yer basket, and see what she thinks o' the butter. I may be wrang, ye ken." So saying he opened the inner door, and ushered the young woman into the kitchen.
"Mind your business," said the voice, sharply. "Now, if I let you out, will you promise to do exactly as I tell you?" "Honour bright," said Mr. Travers, fervently. "I'm going to give Mr. Benn a lesson he won't forget," proceeded the other, grimly. "I'm going to fire off this gun, and then run down and tell him I've killed you." "Eh?" said the amazed Mr. Travers. "Oh, Lord!" "H'sh!
It is a fort, or rather a fortified village, surrounded by high walls, in good repair, and furnished with bastions. Further on, in Persia proper, lies Benn, a town which was formerly of importance, as the ruins which surround it sufficiently prove. Here Pottinger was cordially received by the governor.
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