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I had the ace, and this morning I played it wherefore in my heart there is that peace that passeth understanding particularly since I have just had a telegram informing me that my ace took the odd trick." He opened a drawer in Bryce's desk and reached for the cigars he knew were there. "Not at all a bad cigar for ten cents.
Bryce's every movement with a glittering serenity, if one can use the expression, that was very disturbing. "Sit down," said Mr. Bryce, and he waved his visitor to a chair. The man sat down in the chair indicated, looked Mr. Bryce up and down, without, however, the least sign of offensiveness in his gaze, and said without any further preliminary, "I've come to see you about that advertisement."
I saw you talking to her, aunt." "For a short time. I did not enjoy her company. She is so mercilessly realistic, she takes all the color out of life. Everything about her, even her speech, is sharp-lined as the edge of a knife. She could make Bryce's life very miserable." "Perhaps it might turn out the other way. Bryce Denning has capacities in the same line.
Suddenly two powerful hands were placed between Bryce's shoulders, effectually halting his backward progress; then he was propelled violently forward until he collided with Rondeau. With a bellow of triumph, the woods-boss's gorilla-like arms were around Bryce, swinging him until he faced the man who had forced him into that terrible grip.
I'm the man to take. I know the place well." "It's changed vastly in thirty years," Bryce said suddenly. The other must have been expecting something like this, for he never turned a hair. As far as he was concerned Mr. Bryce's observation might have been the most casual remark in the world. He ignored it.
Murray's Rise of the Greek Epic. Clarendon Press. Warde Fowler's Rome. Home University Library. Bryce's Holy Roman Empire. Macmillan. Ergo humanum genus bene se habet et optime, quando secundum quod potest Deo adsimilatur. Sed genus humanum maxime Deo adsimilatur quando maxime est unum; vera enim ratio unius in solo illo est.
To Bryce's surprise Jules Rondeau appeared to take secret enjoyment of this good-natured chaffing of the Laguna Grande manager. Occasionally he eyed Bryce curiously but without animus, and presently he flashed the latter a lightning wink, as if to say: "What a fool Sexton is to oppose you!"
It would be a mistake, however, to suppose that the Americans are not alive to the failure of their representative institutions. Since Mr. Bryce's great work on "The American Commonwealth" was published two books by American authors have appeared which are very outspoken in condemnation. These are "The Unforeseen Tendencies of Democracy," by Mr.
Loughead, who, despite Doctor Bryce's verdict, had never seemed quite well enough in his own estimation for his departure from the "Higby hospital," on the contrary brightened up, exclaiming, "Now, that is something like to hear Miss Polly laugh like that bless her!" "Good-by, Pickering," said Polly, coming into his room, old Mr.
How Bryce happened to be in the house at that hour, I cannot imagine; but it seems to be natural for him to drop into any interview where he can make trouble. However, it turned out all for the best, for when mother heard Bryce's voice above all the other sounds, she said, 'Come Dora, we shall have to interfere now. Then I was delighted.
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