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He was failing some, and, of course, younger and more progressive men were needed in the villages preachers who could keep up with the committee-meeting times in modern church life. And I am obliged to admit William was a poor church committeeman.
And if it were not the venison it would be something else; if it were not the housekeeper it would be Mr. Orme, charged with the results of a conference with his agent, a committee-meeting at his club, or any of the other incidents which, by happening to himself, became events.
They were given with ardor; and then General Belch was called out for a few remarks, "which he delivered," said the Evening Banner of the Union, "with his accustomed humor, keeping the audience in a roar of laughter, and sending every body happy to bed." The Committee-meeting was over, and the spectators retired to the neighboring bar-rooms. Mr. Slugby, Mr.
I could imagine that I caught an echo of the very tones of Frank Shirley's voice. For several days I waited upon the postman, and when the summons came I dodged a committee-meeting, and ascended the marble stairs with trepidation, and underwent the doubting scrutiny of an English lackey, sufficiently grave in deportment and habiliments to have waited upon a bishop in his own land.
Hans Le Fevre lost his mother and Marie hers; and closer and closer did the bond of companionship draw these children. In the evening, when her father was busy with a committee-meeting and the housekeeper was gossiping with the neighbors, Hans and Marie would climb the garden wall. Here they would sit together, while Hans cut beautiful toys for her, such as no child of those times had.
Course she feels it, being left alone here all evening." But he forgot his warning as she went on: "Why do you go out and see all sorts of strange people? I suppose you'll say you've been to another committee-meeting this evening!" "Nope. I've been calling on a woman. We sat by the fire and kidded each other and had a whale of a good time, if you want to know!"
Miss Farish, it appeared, had just left the committee-meeting of a struggling charity in which she was interested.
But Draper's pain was as awkward as a material obstacle, as something that one stumbled over in a race. "You know what I'm driving at, Millner." Again Mr. Spence's committee-meeting tone sounded oddly through his son's strained voice.
"I must go to the committee-meeting," Pelle replied hesitatingly. He was sorry for her; she was going to have another child, and she looked so forsaken as she moved about the home. But it was impossible for him to stay at home. "When do you think you'll be back?" "That I don't know, Ellen. It is very possible it will take the whole day." Then she was silent and set out his food.
Such was Mrs Bowldler: and her housekeeping, no less vigilant than romantic, protected our two friends from a thousand small domestic cares. "Committee-meeting, to-night?" asked 'Bias. "Eight o'clock: to settle up details mark-boats, handicap, and the like. . . . It's a wonder to me," said Cai reflectively, "how this regatta has run on, year after year.
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