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Lucy and Emily got as red as scarlet when Henry said these words; but Mrs. Colvin whispered: "Let him alone, he is very young, and he will get wiser as he gets older." "I shall be obliged to you to remind me of it, Henry," said Miss Darwell; "and I will speak the moment I see Mrs. Fairchild."
The enthusiasm of this philosopher has grown with his years, and outlived his endurance: we carried our own knapsacks and supplies, therefore, and drew upon him for nothing but moral reflections and a general knowledge of the wilderness. Our first day's route was through the Gill-brook woods and up one of its branches to the head of Caribou Pass, which separates Nipple Top from Colvin.
A lady of my kindred remembers carrying Stevenson about when he was "a rather peevish baby," and I have seen a beautiful photograph of him, like one of Raffael's children, taken when his years were three or four. But I never had heard of his existence till, in 1873, I think, I was at Mentone, in the interests of my health. Here I met Mr. Sidney Colvin, now of the British Museum, and, with Mr.
Colvin always dresses me," she added in a whisper to Lucy, "because she loves me, and I love her." "But where is Henry?" said Mrs. Colvin. They went to look, and there was he, sound asleep on the floor in the play-room, with Shem, Ham, and Japhet in his hands, and all the birds and beasts about him. "Well," said Mrs.
I. Good Health II. 2 to 3 hundred a year III. O du lieber Gott, friends! He wrote an article, this born wayfarer, on "Roads," which was accepted by P. G. Hamerton for the "Portfolio," but in November, 1873, "nervous exhaustion, with a threatening of phthisis," caused him to be "Ordered South" to Mentone a lonely exile. Here he was joined by Mr. Colvin, and in Mr.
I shall tell Colvin to give you a thousand dollars, and when you want more let him know, I shall never forget that you are Amy's mother. This was Arthur's letter to Mrs. Crawford, while to his brother he wrote: 'Dear Frank: I am going to Europe for an indefinite length of time. Why I go it matters not to you or any one.
Colvin had said, "If you can tell the story, Miss Lucy, do favour us with it," she took her place, and did it as easily as if Emily and Henry only had been by. Emily had the same wish to make herself pleasant as Lucy had, but she was naturally more shy.
"You shall remain here, my child, and I will send Michael down to Colvin Court to inquire into the situation of your mother. He must be impartial for he knows nothing about the case." "Thank you, ma'am," said Katy, with a promptness which assured Grace, if not her mother, that the little girl was honest. Mrs.
Everybody got under such cover as was available. There was not much. Gunner Nihala, a gallant native soldier, repeatedly extinguished the burning bhoosa with his cloak at the imminent peril of his life. Lieutenants Watson and Colvin, with their sappers and the twelve men of the Buffs, forced their way into the village, and tried to expel the enemy with the bayonet.
When I say that he was the greatest of leader-writers I am not forgetting that at this moment we have in Mr. Ian Colvin of The Morning Post a superb artist in the three-paragraph style of matutinal exhortation. Bagehot, again, was a great leader-writer; so were Robert Low and Sir Henry Mayne; and so also was Hutton.
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