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So I went with him and his agent to sign the agreement, and felt half-ashamed when Colonel Carrington came in. Of course, I had no need to. He always treated me with a contemptuous indifference that was galling, and a man must earn his bread. Still, I had taken his pay, and it hurt me to see him beaten down upon his knees.
Mann, with pursed lips, "that we shall have to give up the idea of having Miss Carrington the younger for the part." "Oh, oh, oh!" chorused some of the girls. "Can't Margit play?" "Isn't that just like Gee Gee?" demanded Bobby furiously. "She wanted to, I am sure," Laura said. "It is not Margit's fault." "Of course it isn't," snapped Jess. "That old " Fortunately she got no farther.
Carrington reverently. "Yes, the family is more responsible than society, for it makes society," she replied, secretly touched by the allusion to his mother. She felt more and more confidence in Mr. Carrington. It seemed surprising to find how rapidly her love for him had increased since she gave it permission to grow.
That's about all, except that the Colonel goes back to Carrington, and my worthy employer to Mexico. He told me he had word your cousin was not well there. I wonder, Ralph, how this matter will affect you. Your relations with Miss Carrington are of course not altogether a secret." I did not enlighten him.
Carrington offered extempore prayer for all who were fulfilling the Lord's ordinance on that day. And Isabel once more felt her heart yearn to a God who seemed Love after all. St. Sepulchre's was nearly full when they arrived.
And it was quite true, apart from the mere momentary effect of dinner-table talk, that there was a certain bigness about the man; a keen practical sagacity; a bold freedom of self-assertion; a broad way of dealing with what he knew. Carrington was the only person at table who looked on with a perfectly cool head, and who criticised in a hostile spirit.
George Uplift away from Miss Carrington, and spoke to him strange hints of matrimonial disappointments, looking from time to time at that apprehensive lady, doating on her terrors. And Mr. George seconded her by his clouded face, for he was ashamed not to show that he did not know Louisa Harrington in the Countess de Saldar, and had not the courage to declare that he did.
"He has lived the greater part of his life in the wilder parts of America rather what one might call a rough and ready customer." It was apparent that Mr. Carrington, for all his easy-going air, was extremely interested. "This is quite interesting!" he murmured. "To what extent did he benefit by the will?" Carrington repeated the words with an odd intonation and stared very hard at the lawyer.
He knew that Captain Carrington was right. But it went bitterly against the grain to abandon the people whom he had rescued with so much trouble. As for Ken, the idea of losing his father again just after he had found him sent his spirits down to zero. After a moment's thought, Strang spoke again. 'I might leave the boat, sir, and tackle this fellow, whoever he is.
"And I've got rid of that pheasant. I sold it to Mr. Carrington's cook as I came through the village. I thought it was better out of the way." "Then that's all right. We only want about another half-crown," said Erebus. Mr. Carrington found Mr.
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