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Snape's wife held some little interest in a small greengrocer's establishment. 'Mr. Tudor to attend in the board-room, immediately, said a fat messenger, who opened the door wide with a start, and then stood with it in his hand while he delivered the message.
Will the Honourable Phoenix walk it is only a few steps or would it like to be would it like some sort of conveyance? 'My Robert will bear me to the board-room, if that be the unlovely name of my temple's inmost court, replied the bird. So they all followed the gentleman.
I mentioned it to-night at the County Club, when a gentleman said that this morning at Macroom a serious "row" had occurred between the local Board of Guardians there and a great crowd of labourers. The labourers thronged the Board-room, demanding the half-acre plots of land which had been promised them.
'I don't think much of you as a book-keeper, you know, Fisker said to Miles Grendall in the now almost deserted Board-room of the South Central Pacific and Mexican Railway. Miles, remembering his father's advice, answered not a word, but merely looked with assumed amazement at the impertinent stranger who dared thus to censure his performances.
He then gave him another blow on the head, just to stun him till he came back again. Having completed these arrangements, he walked up to the gate, to read the bill. The gentleman with the white waistcoat was standing at the gate with his hands behind him, after having delivered himself of some profound sentiments in the board-room. Having witnessed the little dispute between Mr.
I remember that we sat in a sort of board-room, on such very large square horse-hair chairs that I wondered what race of Patagonians they were made for; and further, that an undertaker gave me his card when we were in the full moral freshness of having just been sworn, as 'an inhabitant that was newly come into the parish, and was likely to have a young family. The case was then stated to us by the Coroner, and then we went down-stairs led by the plotting Beadle to view the body.
He came, a small, slight, sandy-haired, keen-eyed man, with an eager, nervous manner, and a forest of light beard and mustache. He just showed himself at the door of the board-room, and, being requested to bring a certain day-book from a certain shelf in a certain room, bowed and vanished.
He was seated in an easy-chair in a snug little back-office, or board-room, in one of the airiest little streets of the City of London, when this necessity became apparent to him.
The Chairman of the Board, Gentle MEN! In like manner, but in a still more stentorian voice, he ushered the chairman through the public office, where some humble clients were transacting business, into an awful chamber, labelled Board-room; the door of which sanctuary immediately closed, and screened the great capitalist from vulgar eyes.
"The auld man sucked in his lips an' whistled. 'AH, said he, 'the new timin'. I see! He doddered into the Board-room I'd just left, an' the Dandie-dog that is just his blind man's leader stayed wi' me. That was providential. In a minute he was back again. 'Ye've cast your bread on the watter, McPhee, an' be damned to you, he says. 'Whaur's my dog? My word, is he on your knee?
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