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Colvin set him to pack up his ark, whilst she showed Emily and Lucy into a room to dress, saying: "When you are ready, come to me, that I may see that all is right." When they were dressed they called Henry, who was yet to be dressed, and then sought Mrs. Colvin; she, too, was ready, and Miss Darwell was standing by her.
"Let her see for herself," he suggested, with a bland, almost fatherly, air. Doctor Golden took the book and approached Miss Demarest. "Here is a name very unlike yours," he pointed out, as her eye fell on the page he had opened to. "Annette Colvin, Lansing, Michigan." "That is not my name or writing," said she.
You shock my nerves dreadfully, Arthur exclaimed, springing up and walking two or three times across the room. Then, confronting the young couple, he said, 'Going to marry Harold? I knew you would all this time. Well, he will do as well as any one to look after the business. Frank is no good, and Colvin is too old. So, get married at once, within a week if you like.
His companion's suggestions, however, were borne out when he sat smoking with Grenfell in the bush after supper. "I've been in the adit this afternoon," observed the latter. "Colvin sent me along to where they are putting in the heavy timbering." He laughed softly. "Well, they're throwing away most of their money." "You're sure?" inquired Weston. "Am I sure!" expostulated his comrade.
And of this, only I went out for an hour and a half to Mr. Colvin Smith, to conclude a picture for Lord Gillies. This is a sad relief from labour. "... Sedet æternumque sedebit Infelix Theseus." But Lord Gillies has been so kind and civil that I must have his picture as like as possible. June 15. I had at breakfast the son of Mr. Fellenburg of Hofwyll, Switzerland, a modest young man.
Thither went at various times "Bob" Stevenson, Sir Sidney Colvin, Mr. Charles Baxter, Mr. W. E. Henley, and Miss Ferrier. The pleasurable excitement of this society, to which he had been so long a stranger, raised Mr.
Well, it is the captain's mother. Since her son has been prosperous, she has had an easy time of it, and has grown very corpulent. "Who do you think has come, Katy?" puffed Mrs. Howard. "I don't know. Who?" "Mrs. Colvin, that was! Mrs. McCarty, that is." Some of the very good-natured people laughed, and some of the very fastidious ones turned up their noses, when they saw Mrs.
Colvin Smith has made a better in one sense, having sold ten or twelve copies of the portrait to different friends. The Solicitor came to dine with me we drank a bottle of champagne, and two bottles of claret, which, in former days, I should have thought a very sober allowance, since, Lockhart included, there were three persons to drink it. But I felt I had drunk too much, and was uncomfortable.
Colvin, the triangulating surveyor of the Adirondacks, killed him in his last official report to the State. Whether he despatched him with a theodolite or a barometer does not matter: he is officially dead, and none of the travelers can kill him any more. Yet he has served them a good turn. I knew that catamount well.
Sitwell to teach him belief in himself; in his moment of failure, and struggle with poverty and death itself, he had married a wife capable of being his comrade, his critic, and his nurse. We owe all the best part of Stevenson's work to the presence by his side of a wife who possessed, as Sir Sidney Colvin testifies, 'a character as strong, interesting, and romantic as his own.
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