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Yet, of the two, which would you be quickest to trust?" The consul-general laughed. "Now you are appealing not to my knowledge of the world but to my instinct." "Thanks." "Is there any reason why you should defend Mr. Warrington, as he calls himself?" The consul-general's wife desperately tried to catch her husband's eye. But either he did not see the glance or he purposely ignored it.
In the summer she accompanied the Consul-General's family to a bathing-place. There Barbara wheeled the perambulator with the two children in it along the shore, and more than once the Veyergangs were flattered by the exclamations of passers-by: "What a fine-looking nurse!" But there were difficulties with her, too fits of melancholy to which she completely gave way.
There was praise and nothing but praise to be given every time the Consul-General's Lars stopped there in driving past, and when Barbara only received a message of that kind, she could be happy and contented the whole month. She was made much of, as she very soon felt. If she said or wanted anything, she was obeyed as if she were the mistress herself.
When our enemies invaded my country and the call went out to all sons of Belgium, the little Garin was ashamed because he knew that he was physically unfit for military service. But he tried. He tried everywhere. In the mornings they must sweep him away from our Consul-General's doorsteps here because otherwise he would not You spoke, Monsieur?" "Nothing. I only said, 'God forgive us!"
Eight articles were produced in court Six were comments on or descriptions of fighting then taking place in the interior. They were no stronger, if as strong, as many of the statements published in this book. The Consul-General's decision was as anticipated. He convicted the editor, and ordered him to enter into recognizances of £300 to be of good behaviour for six months.
"Is that young crow going to caw too?" The young crow grew hot beneath her handkerchief, but she did not answer. She knew quite well, that he did know her; he had been in the office when she went out with her mother to the Consul-General's to apply for a place in the factory.
Petersburg by M. Pokhitanow independently of his minister, who, I have the strongest reason to believe, entirely disavowed the Consul-General's actions. The Russian government thereupon publicly discredited its minister and demanded from the Persian government an immediate apology for something that had never occurred.
"Why!" he fumed. "Afraid of the sails. Afraid of a white crew. Too much trouble. Too much work. Too long out here. Easy life and deck-chairs more their mark. Here I sit with the Consul-General's cable before me, and the only man fit for the job not to be found anywhere. I began to think you were funking it, too. . . ." "I haven't been long getting to the office," I remarked calmly.
The consul-general's wife sent a startled glance at Elsa, who spun her sunshade to lighten the tension of her nerves. "He confessed frankly to me this morning that he is a fugitive from justice. He wishes to return to America. He recounted the circumstances of your meeting. To me the story appeared truthful enough.
The petty things of every-day life were lifting their heads once more, and of necessity she must recognize them. She sat at the consul-general's table, informally. There was gay inconsequential chatter, an exchange of recollections and comparisons of cities and countries they had visited at separate times; but neither she nor he mentioned the chief subject of their thoughts.
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