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But the best is, that this loggerhead should say this, that understands nothing of the Navy, nor ever would; and hath particularly blemished his master by name among us. I told Sir W. Coventry of my letter to Sir R. Brookes, and his answer to me.
The gentlemanlike urbanity with which he waits on the opposite friend the conciliating tone with which he proffers implacable enmity the killing kindness with which he refuses all accommodation the Talleyrand air of his short notes, dated from the "Travellers," or "Brookes," with the words 3 o'clock or 5 o'clock on the cover, all indicative of the friendly precipitancy of the negociation.
When any weakness of the human heart can find a seeming virtue to go hand in hand with it, the battle is as good as lost; and at that moment Brookes Ormsby, placidly refilling his short pipe in the smoking-room of the Pullman, was by no means in the hopeless case he was sometimes tempted to fancy himself.
"Then, by the piper that played before Moses, if you don't recollect it, I've an idea that I shall never forget it. Sure enough, it cured me, but wasn't I quite kilt before I was cured?" "It must have been some other shop," observed Mr Brookes. "You have made a mistake." "Devil a bit of mistake, except in selling me the plaster. Didn't I get it of a lad in this same shop?"
"But are they facts, Arthur are they proved? for that there is unjust prejudice against him in the village, I am pretty certain." "They are so far proved, that, by applying them to him, a mystery in the village is cleared up, and also his violent haste to quit our neighbourhood. You remember Mary Brookes?" "That poor girl who died, it was said, of such a rapid decline? Perfectly well."
The man my daughter marries must settle on her a sum of money equivalent " "To what you settle on her." "To her position, to her expectations," replied Mr. Brookes, growing more and more angry. "But I don't know what her expectations are; you may marry again." "I do not intend to marry again."
"Another half-hour. I suppose he won't start before the half-hour." "Miss," said the maid, knocking at the door, "Mr. Brookes wants to know if you are coming down to breakfast." "Say that we are not nearly ready; that there's no use waiting for us." "I think I had better go back to my room," said Sally. "I think you had. I wish you wouldn't bring that horrid little dog into my room.
Brookes. You are no doubt a very clever man, but on one or two points you are liable to make mistakes; you are, if I may so speak, a little weak. You should come and live with me for a few months, I would put you right." "This is really too much," thought Mr.
The Australian team of Brookes, Patterson, R. V. Thomas, and Randolph Lycett journeyed home to the Antipodes by way of America to compete in the American Championship. Meanwhile R. N. Williams, W. M. Johnston, and Maurice E. M'Loughlin were demobilized, and were again on the courts. The American Championships assumed an importance equal to that of the Wimbledon event.
She wrung from every sentence its last possibility of unconscious meaning, and she found when she had finished that it was eleven o'clock. Then she went to bed, preferring not to call Brookes, with the somewhat foolish feeling of being unable to account for her evening. Her last reflection before she slept shaped itself in her mind in definite words.
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