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Updated: May 29, 2025
It looked out at her from the face of every acquaintance, it appeared suddenly in the eyes of strangers when a word enlightened them: "Yes, the Mrs. Lidcote, don't you know?" It had sprung at her the first day out, when, across the dining-room, from the captain's table, she had seen Mrs. Lorin Boulger's revolving eye-glass pause and the eye behind it grow as blank as a dropped blind.
Lorin Boulger's shoulder, and she heard the ambassadress call out to some one, over the vexed sea of hats: "So sorry! I should have been delighted, but I've promised to spend Sunday with some friends at Lenox."
"For a time he walked through the world in a sustained, not unpleasurable awe generated by the habitual recognition, beside every circumstance and event of life, of its celestial correspondent." In D. C. Boulger's Life of General Charles Gordon he records how, like Nelson Clive, his hero was prone to boys' escapades and outbreaks that often made him the terror of his superiors.
Boulger's face grew darker, and he was silent. 'Are you going to continue to know Alec MacKenzie? he asked at length. 'You have no right to ask me such a question. 'If you'll take the advice of any unprejudiced person about that letter, you'll find that he'll say the same as I. There can be no shadow of a doubt that the man is guilty of a monstrous crime.
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