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As he turned a corner made by a projection in the wall, a dark hand seized him by the neck, and he was on his back, with a roaring sound in his ears, and a feeling of suffocation. "What's the matter?" he gasped presently, when the grip on his throat relaxed. "Can you stand?" "Yes, of course." Compton got up. "You look queer." "Feel queer," said Venning.
Torrance, the efficiency expert at the plant." Leisurely Miss Compton laid aside her book. Rising, she faced the newcomer, and as their eyes met, Jimmy barely stifled a gasp of astonishment and dismay. Elizabeth Compton's arched brows raised slightly and involuntarily she breathed a low ejaculation, "Efficiency expert!"
The second Robert wrote The Life and Death of Habbie Simson, the Piper, a humorous description of old Scottish life. Francis wrote occasional pieces. Economist and essayist, s. of a clergyman, was b. at Compton Beauchamp, Berks, ed. at Eton and Oxf., studied law, and was called to the Bar in 1819.
My mouth got quite dry, my face flushed, and I couldn't think whatever I should say, I felt just as I did that day at the school examination, when I had to make one of the prize speeches. But I got all to rights directly I saw Mr. Compton. He said, 'Good morning to you be seated, in such a nice way, that I felt at home with him at once." "And what did you say to him, George?"
Listen, then, to these instructions; On the ledge skirting the south cliff, and leading up to the gorge, there is a cave, which may be recognized from the existence near it of a bath hewn out of the lava by human hands. That cave is the key to the underground passage." Compton looked up with shilling eyes. "The very place I am in," he muttered.
Now, at Sotherton we have a good seven hundred, without reckoning the water meadows; so that I think, if so much could be done at Compton, we need not despair.
I have never seen him like that before. Hang it all, I can't bear to think we have left him looking so down;" and Compton banged the lever over. They went on in silence for a mile, still thinking over Muata, when the Angoni, who was on watch, cried out "Congela!" "What do you see?" The man pointed a black finger at the river, and on it they saw two black spots.
It was plain that the old man was not of the same race as his companion, and when the two had eaten, Compton asked the old chap how he came to wear a fez and speak Arabic. "It is the speech of my fathers, effendi," he said, turning his smoke-bleared eyes on the young face. "And how came it that an Arab was dwelling with the river-people?" asked Muata.
At this, what could a sensitive girl of sixteen do but burst out crying, and promise, round her father's neck, never to marry any one whom he disliked. When she had made this promise, her father fondled and petted her, and his tenderness consoled her, for she was not passionately in love with her cousin. Yet she cried a good deal over the letter in which she communicated this to Compton.
Bassett, and even of Master Compton, who pointed and crowed from his mother's lap, he got up on his chair, and put on a pair of spectacles to look. "Eureka!" said he; "behold that dish by Lady Bassett; those are marrons glaces; fetch them here, and let us go in for a fit of the gout at once." "Gout! what's that?" inquired Mr. Bassett. "Don't ask me." "You don't know. "Not know!
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