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Updated: June 11, 2025
"See you tomorrow, Rosie, or as soon as the blamed old doctor turns me loose. I've got to be on my way now. He's waiting for me up there. May have to put a stitch in my mug, and yank my leg like the devil, but " She still blocked his path. "Courtney, I'm I'm terribly unhappy. I want to see you, very soon." "I hear you have been ill, Rosie.
And as if to invite jovial companionship, this pathetic gentleman wore his ancient straw hat cocked rakishly over what would have been his left ear if he had had any ears at all. While standing before the gate, Courtney had come to a sudden, amazing decision. He resolved to enter and explore the house if it were possible to do so. He remembered that Mrs.
"This is Friday dine with Dehra and me here to-morrow evening. Come by the private entrance." Then we went back to the Princess and Lady Helen. But what a different life had opened to me in the short absence. I was sitting alone in the library late that night when Courtney came in. He had been to some function at the French Embassy, from which I had begged off, and seemed surprised to see me.
Well, there is no technical evidence in support of such an hypothesis; but, again, in a matter of this kind, it is not so much the technical as the indirect evidence that tells the cadences of the voice, the breathing, the silences, the atmosphere. There is no denying that I did somehow acquire a vague impression that Courtney is not so large a figure in his wife's eyes as he might be.
Taking out the prisoners and putting a prize crew on board, Captain Courtney stood back, with the schooner in tow, towards the mouth of the harbour; then again firing another shot of defiance, he bore away to the westward. "The Frenchmen will bear a great deal, but they will not bear that," observed Morton to his son.
"A diplomat should watch the newspapers," said I, and pointed to this item in the Court News of that morning's issue: "His Excellency the Honorable Richard Courtney, the newly accredited American Ambassador, is expected to arrive to-day. He is accompanied by Major Dalberg, the Military Attaché.
Just half!" "I'm coming around to see that diagram," he hastily stated. "My dear," observed Mr. Courtney as he and his wife approached the jessamine summer-house, "do you pick your week-end guests from a city directory or do you draw the names from a hat?" Constance Joy, sitting in the summer-house with Johnny Gamble, rose and laughed lightly as a warning. "My dear," retorted Mrs.
"Look here, Courtney, is this a put-up job between you and Gamble?" demanded Washer. "No," returned Courtney, with that rarely seen smile of his, "it's only the finish of that job you put up on me when you persuaded my friends to drop out of my hotel company." Washer looked petulant. Johnny Gamble patted him on the shoulder. "Cheer up," he said "but hurry.
The same post that carried her letter east was to take one from Courtney Thane to his mother. DEAREST MATER: I am going to ask Alix Crown to marry me. I have hesitated to do so for obvious reasons, perfectly clear to you. Now, I have decided. She understands my financial situation. She knows that I am almost entirely dependent on you for support at present.
'That laugh was from a basket lacking provision; and I think we could trace our separation to it, Diana said to Lady Pennon, who replied: 'They expose themselves; they get no nearer to the riddle. Miss Courtney, a rising young actress, encouraged by a smile from Mrs. Warwick, remarked: 'On the stage, we have each our parts equally. 'And speaking parts; not personae mutae.
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