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It was also under Lord Curzon that the most vigorous impulse was given to technical education of which the claims had already been advocated by many distinguished Anglo-Indian officials, such as Sir Antony MacDonnell and Sir Auckland Colvin.
Stevenson often found it necessary to instruct them by doing the work with her own hands. Writing humorously of her troubles to Sir Sidney Colvin, her husband says: "Fanny was to have rested; blessed Paul began making a duck house; she let him be; the duck house fell down, and she had to set her hand to it.
In the Highland cottage, during the rain eternal, he amused himself with writing his story, as Shelley, Byron, Polidori, and Mary Godwin had diverted themselves in Swiss wet weather, with their ghost stories, "Frankenstein," and Byron's good opening of a romance of a vampire. Visitors came Mr. Colvin, Mr. Gosse, and Dr.
Verplanck Colvin, will cover an area of nearly five thousand square miles. In his report of the great work he eloquently says: "The Adirondack wilderness may be considered the wonder and the glory of New York.
I thought I should like you, but I did not know how very much it would be." The little girls then kissed each other, and Mrs. Colvin gave them a note for their mother. "This," she said, "is to tell Mrs. Fairchild, that I care not how often you and Miss Darwell meet. I can add no more to that."
"The sea," he writes to Sidney Colvin, "is a terrible place, stupefying to the mind and poisonous to the temper the motion, the lack of space, the cruel publicity, the villainous tinned foods, the sailors, the passengers."
I laboured till about one, and was then obliged to go to attend a meeting of the Oil Gas Company, as I devoutly hope for the last time. After that I was obliged to go to sit to Colvin Smith, which is an atrocious bore, but cannot be helped. Cadell rendered me report of accounts paid for me with vouchers, which very nearly puts me out of all shop debts. God grant me grace to keep so! June 10-14.
At this point the door opened and Lali entered, shown in by Colvin, her newly-appointed maid, and followed by Mackenzie, and, as we said, dressed still in her heathenish garments. She had a strong sense of dignity, for she stood still and waited. Perhaps nothing could have impressed Marion more.
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.
"That's what I'm here to get at. The murderers of Telfik Bey, of course. My instructions are to find out secretly, if at all. For if it does get into the newspapers there'll be the very deuce to pay. "You need not, in point of fact, tell me anything about it at all," observed Average Jones equably. Pomposity fell away from Mr. Thomas Colvin McIntyre, leaving him palpably shivering.
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