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"Thank you, Your Excellency," I said. Then we both smiled. "It's queer," said Courtney, "how, even in the most embarrassing difficulties, a woman's love makes a man's heart light." I nodded. I was thinking of the drive to the Palace. Courtney's laugh aroused me. "Come out of the brougham," he called. "That is where I was," I admitted.
And though it was, naturally, well known to my great-grandsire's friends and neighbors, yet, in the succeeding generations, it has been forgotten and never had I heard it referred to by a stranger. Therefore, I was surprised and a trifle annoyed at Courtney's discovery.
Bain's Criticism with Personal Recollections , L. Courtney's John Stuart Mill , Autobiography, Stephens's Utilitarians, J. Grote's Examination of the Utilitarian Philosophy of Mill, etc. Geologist, and man of letters, b. at Cromarty, had the ordinary parish school education, and early showed a remarkable love of reading and power of story-telling.
Frumpton's calling her my good girl, and by Sir Amyas Courtney's having objected to a green silk bandage which she had recommended; so that she could not abide either of the gentlemen, and she was confident the young lady would never get well while they had the management of affairs: she had heard but she did not mention from whom, she was too diplomatic to give up her authority she had heard of a young physician, a Dr.
It had been rumored that Courtney of the New York Beacon had come to Washington with blood in his eyes. But there he sat, silent and unmoved, his swarthy, eagle-like face, with its frame of iron-grey hair as unchanging as if he had never had a passionate thought. "I don't like Jim Courtney's silence," whispered Stowell to a colleague. "There's never so much devil in him as when he keeps still.
"That's the name they gave me at Mallard & Tyne's office this afternoon. They told me that he has tied up the only available block the railroad company overlooked." "Tied it up!" exploded the colonel. "Bless my soul, it has him tied up! Courtney's company blew so high that none of the pieces has come down yet.
Abel Graham fumbled in the inner pocket of his very shabby coat, and at last brought out a square envelope, from which he took the curate's letter. 'I have come, he said quite slowly, 'in answer to this. I suppose you knew it had been written? 'If it is Mr. Courtney's letter, yes, answered Gladys, unconsciously adopting her uncle's business-like tone and manner.
"Well, you write tonight, Angie," ordered Mr. Webster; "and remember it ain't Cedar, or Oak, or Mahogany. It's Pine, the stuff you make boxes of." Much to Courtney's dismay, Alix remained in town over night. He went up to the house that evening, only to receive this disconcerting bit of information. Halfway home, he stopped short in the road, confronted by a most astonishing doubt.
"Good-by!" and he was gone. If Loring professed but slight interest in the flamboyant plans for the new hotel, there were others who were painfully absorbed in the news of the project. Gresham, for one, read the account with contracted brows at his late breakfast; and at noon, inspired by a virtuous sense of duty, he sauntered over to Courtney's club.
We may turn back to the vast campaigns of Hannibal and Hamilcar and Julius Caesar and find no er no war comparable to the one we have so gloriously concluded. Our own Civil War, with all its, but I must not keep you standing, Mr. Thane. Do you, from your experience and observation, regard another war as inevitable?" "I do," was Courtney's succinct reply.
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