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These masses of whin-stone are from three or four to an hundred feet thick, running parallel in planes inclined to the horizon, and forming with it an angle of about twenty or thirty degrees, as may be seen at all times in the hill of Salisbury Craggs.
The two men had stood up, the small white gloves over their hands They advanced from their corners and shook hands, Montgomery gravely, Craggs with a smile. Then they fell into position. The crowd gave a long sigh the intake of a thousand excited breaths. The referee tilted his chair on to its back legs, and looked moodily critical from the one to the other.
Secretary Craggs then made a short speech, wherein he commended the conduct of the directors, and urged that nothing could more effectually contribute to the bringing this scheme to perfection than union among themselves.
Craggs, as if to express that it was a partnership view of the subject, also coughed. 'Ruined at thirty! said the client. 'Humph! 'Not ruined, Mr. Warden, returned Snitchey. 'Not so bad as that. You have done a good deal towards it, I must say, but you are not ruined. A little nursing 'A little Devil, said the client. 'Mr. Craggs, said Snitchey, 'will you oblige me with a pinch of snuff?
'It says, replied Clemency, reading slowly round as if it were a tower, 'For-get and For-give. Snitchey and Craggs laughed heartily. 'So new! said Snitchey. 'So easy! said Craggs. 'Such a knowledge of human nature in it! said Snitchey. 'So applicable to the affairs of life! said Craggs. 'And the nutmeg-grater? inquired the head of the Firm.
Snitchey's Bird of Paradise feather quivered so portentously, and why all the pendant bits on Mrs. Craggs's ear-rings shook like little bells. 'I wonder YOU could come away, Mr. Craggs, said his wife. 'Mr. Craggs is fortunate, I'm sure! said Mrs. Snitchey. 'That office so engrosses 'em, said Mrs. Craggs. 'A person with an office has no business to be married at all, said Mrs. Snitchey.
At the western end, in a corner from which spectators are barred out, there is a statue of Wordsworth, which I do not recollect seeing at any former visit. Its only companion in the same nook is Pope's friend, Secretary Craggs. Downing Street, that famous official precinct, took its name from Sir George Downing, who was proprietor or lessee of property there. August 10th.
But it was too late, and all through the night and next morning casualties were being carried out to Liévin and down the line. 2nd Lieuts. Craggs and Macbeth both went to England, and, almost the last to leave the slag-heap, 2nd Lieut. Banwell.
Craggs knows Mrs. Snitchey cut this reference very short by hitching her husband to a distance, and asking him to look at that man. To do her the favour to look at him! 'At which man, my dear? said Mr. Snitchey. 'Your chosen companion; I'M no companion to you, Mr. Snitchey. 'Yes, yes, you are, my dear, he interposed. 'No, no, I'm not, said Mrs. Snitchey with a majestic smile.
If the Craggs were nothing to him, what might he not face? "Come here, Hamlet. How dare you?" he ordered in so sharp and military a voice that Hamlet, who had merely cast a most innocent glance at a disdainful and conceited white poodle, looked up at his master with surprise. Nevertheless, his new-found hardihood received, in the very midst of his self-congratulation, its severest test.
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