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"We haven't had an explorer for a long time. I believe he's shaggy enough to be a great success." "You must bring him over to dine, Jim," said the Squire. "It's interesting to hear about these fellows who trot all over the world. But heavens, what a life!" "A very good life, I think," said Mr. Birket. "Not much chance to get moss-grown."
"Yes. I do think things over. There's nothing much else to do." Mr. Birket cast a side glance at her. The sun striking through the trees of the park flushed translucently the smooth, fair flesh of her cheek and her ungloved hand. In her white frock, moving freely, with the springy grace of a young animal, she attracted the eye.
No news had been received of the ship after she touched at the Cape, and it was supposed that she had gone down with all hands; until, nearly three years later, her boatswain, Ben Birket, had entered the East India Company's office, and reported that he himself, and the captain, had been cast ashore on the territories of the Rajah of Coorg; the sole survivors, as far as he knew, of the Hooghley.
"I don't suppose there'll be anybody else there to-day," said Dick, "and the spirit of youth cries aloud for tea on the floor." So it was settled. Mrs. Clinton and Mrs. Birket went in the carriage, Angela rode with Humphrey, and Dick drove the rest of the party, which did not include the Squire, in the brake. "You look like bean-feasters," said Humphrey, as they drove past him and Angela.
I've looked into it with as much intelligence as I'm capable of they say about here that isn't much and I can't see why you shouldn't be a Tory as good as any of 'em and still stick to Free Trade." "Nor can I," said Mr. Birket. "But they won't let you. You had better join us, Graham. Anybody with any dawning of sense must be very uncomfortable where you are."
If she'd had the chances our girls have had, she'd have made use of them. Can't we give her a chance, Emmeline? She's a particularly nice girl. Have her up to London for a month or two. The girls are fond of her and you're fond of her too, aren't you?" "Yes, I'm very fond of her," said Mrs. Birket. "Well then, why not?" "Do you think Edward would let her come?"
But before Pliny wrote, the bank had given way, the pentup waters had made for themselves a channel into the lake now called Birket el Kurun, and the two small pyramids, which had hitherto been surrounded by water, then stood on dry ground. Thus was the country slowly going to ruin by the faults of the government, and ignorance in the foreign rulers.
Jim looked a little wistfully at Cicely as she went away with her arm in that of Beatrice Birket, but made no attempt to join her, and presently allied himself to the storming party which Joan was collecting to rescue Miss Bird, confined in the deepest dungeon. "Now, Trixie, you have got to tell me all about it," Cicely said, when the two girls were out of hearing of the rest.
Alluvial deposits have filled up all but its deepest depression, which is known as Birket Nu; but in ages preceding our era it must still have been vast enough to suggest to Egyptian soldiers and boatmen the idea of an actual sea opening into the Indian Ocean.
If any man whom I knew to be a man of brains confessed to me that he preferred Birket Foster, I should smile but I should understand. A long time since I wrote in this book. In September I caught a cold, which meant three weeks' illness. I have not been suffering; merely feverish and weak and unable to use my mind for anything but a daily hour or two of the lightest reading.
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