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The school was empty; nearly all the masters had gone away; Colonel Creighton's railway pass lay in his hand, and Kim puffed himself that he had not spent Colonel Creighton's or Mahbub's money in riotous living. He was still lord of two rupees seven annas. His new bullock-trunk, marked 'K. O'H., and bedding-roll lay in the empty sleeping-room.
"Because there is only one Roderick Ralestone in this generation and he is standing right there. Permit me to introduce Roderick St. Jean Ralestone!" The person he turned to was Jeems! Val ventured to break the sudden silence which resulted from Creighton's astonishing statement. "But how why " "Yeah," the rival had collected a measure of his scattered wits, "whatta yuh mean, wise guy?"
Baker's growling argumentation, to Creighton's interjected and severe remarks, while looking down on the deck he weighed in his hand the iron belayingpin that a moment ago had just missed his head as if it had been the only tangible fact of the whole transaction.
Creighton's Sally, who was then tripping through the measure on Hawtrey's arm, was native born. She was young and straight straighter in outline than the women of the cities with a suppleness which was less suggestive of the willow than a rather highly-tempered spring.
Creighton had established telegraphic communication from ocean to ocean. For his remuneration he took one hundred thousand dollars worth of the stock of the new enterprise at about eighteen cents on the dollar. When the project was completed, the company trebled its amount of shares and Mr. Creighton's one hundred thousand dollars immediately enhanced to three hundred thousand.
Say" and he glanced towards the dancers "Dick Creighton's Sally seems quite stuck on Hawtrey by the way she's looking at him." Stukely assented. He was a somewhat primitive person, as was Sally Creighton, for that matter, and he did not suppose she would have been greatly offended had she overheard his observations. "Well," he said, "I've thought that, too. If she wants him she'll get him.
As only a few of the Brahman and writer castes could read, and not one woman, "a general perusal of the Scriptures amongst natives will be impracticable till they are taught to read." But nothing was done, save by the missionaries, till 1835, when Lord William Bentinck received Adam's report on the educational destitution of Bengal. Referring to Creighton's scheme, Mr.
He felt awkward and thought Janet knew this, for she resumed: "However, one mustn't expect too much and you want to get back. It's a habit of yours. You were in a hurry to get away the last time I saw you, when the stone-boat broke Creighton's wall." "I'd been at work since morning in the snow." "And Miss Osborn was waiting for you in the lonning?" "No," said Kit sharply; "she was not."
Indeed, young Cazalet, whose father was a pensioner at Chunar, hinted very broadly that Colonel Creighton's interest in Kim was directly paternal; and Kim, instead of retaliating, did not even use language.
On the side of feminism there is hope in the widespread disgust with Cristabel Pankhurst's "Plain Facts on a Great Evil" as compared with the very general approval of Louise Creighton's polished masterpiece, "The Social Evil and How to Fight It."
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