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Mr Vanslyperken collected himself he wished to know how Smallbones had been saved, but still dared not broach the subject, as it would be admitting his own guilt. "What has happened, Smallbones?" said Vanslyperken. "I still feel very faint." "Take a glass of this," replied Smallbones, opening the cupboard, and bringing out the scheedam.
Sitting in the shade of a huge old oak near the first tee on the Elite Club course, awaiting the appearance of the young women with whom they were to play a mixed foursome, the twins fell to discussing a subject they had dreaded to contemplate much less to broach. "Jeff," said Rip, poking a dandelion with the head of his mashie, "lend me fifty till next week."
As they went along, he told them his adventure in the stream, and, when they heard it, they ejaculated to each other, and condoled with him kindly, and assured him he was alive by a miracle. They reached Raby, and, in the great hall, the Squire collected his people and gave his orders. "Stop the bell. Broach a barrel of ale, and keep open house, so long as malt, and bacon, and cheese last.
Dowsett had of course heard of the spectacular Klondike King and his rumored thirty millions, and he certainly found himself interested by the man in the acquaintance that was formed. Somewhere along in this acquaintanceship the idea must have popped into his brain. But he did not broach it, preferring to mature it carefully.
He couldn't explain it, so he thought best not to broach the subject. And as this filled so large a part of his thoughts there was nothing else he cared to talk about. After all his trip to Philadelphia had not been productive of any results. He knew no more now than when he started about the extent of Mr. Tyler's fortune.
This crypt-like appearance is explained by the absence even of a single window in the apse, which is covered by a semi-dome. The Romanesque tower is very low and broad, with a broach spire roofed with stones.
"My dear chap, it doesn't matter a scrap. We three'll go as arranged and you must join us on our next jaunt. Kitty'll be here to look after Nan," he added, smiling good-naturedly. "She hates fishing it bores her stiff." After dinner Roger made an opportunity to broach the matter of the portrait to Nan. "When's Rooke going to finish that portrait of you?" he asked her.
"This must be some relative of Bangs come to deliver him a lecture on his course of life. Why don't he broach his advice at once?" thought Mr. Bixby. The visitor here pulled a glove from his right hand, ran his fingers through his hair, and then, in a more business-like tone, spoke again: "Although a stranger to you personally, Mr. Bangs, I have always taken a great interest in your family. Mr.
But Miss Hill never shirked her duty, and after all, her motive was a hope to help Bessy. "Mrs. Bell, I've come on a matter of importance," began Miss Hill. "But it is so delicate a one I don't know how to broach it. I believe plain speaking best." Here Miss Hill went into detail, sparing not to call a spade a spade.
A moment afterwards his voice came back exultingly, through the morning air: "But a Gorgio sleeps 'neath the greenwood tree He'll broach my tan no more: And my love, she sleeps afar from me But near to the churchyard door." As the old man turned heavily towards the house, and opened the outer door, Fleda met him.
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