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"Gin'rally with this gun," returned McKinstry with slow gravity, indicating the rifle he was carrying, "for I ain't kam. I let on to Seth's father that if I ever found Seth and Cressy together again, I'd shoot him. It made a sort o' coolness betwixt the families, and hez given some comfort to them low-down Harrisons; but even the law, I reckon, recognizes a father's rights.
At recess, Octavia Dean, who had drawn near Cressy and reached up to place her arm round the older girl's waist, glanced at her with a patronizing smile born of some rapid free-masonry, and laughingly retired with the others. The master at his desk, and Cressy who had halted in the aisle were left alone.
"I've developed," he murmured to himself. "There ain't a doubt about it! One week of Country air, and I'm a different man; the effecks of overwork 'ave disappeared. Flopsie won't know these legs of mine when I get back, they've improved surprisingly." He stopped to survey a bed of carrots. "Plenty of Cressy there," he mused.
"Because, in common decency, she couldn't. She sold Cressy to me for a good round sum." Flora and Mrs. Herrick exchanged a look of horror. "I'd suspected him," said Kerr. "I knew where I'd seen him, but I couldn't be sure of his identity till she showed me the picture." "What picture?" cried Flora. "The picture Buller mentioned at the club that night: Farrell Wand, boarding the Loch Ettive.
Cressy dropped his fork with a resounding clatter to the floor and swore muttered monotonous oaths at the waiter for not being instantaneously on the spot to replace the implement. "Young man," he said to Phil. "You are too devilish smart. Carlotta is why I am here." "So I imagined. Did she send you?" "Great Scott, no! My life wouldn't be worth a brass nickel if she knew I was here."
Roger de Mandeville, bearer of the ducal standard at the red fight of Hastings, was the first of my name who set foot upon English ground. Since then, there is not an era in the history of our country which does not bear witness to some achievement of the stalwart Mandevilles. The Crusades Cressy Poitiers and pardon me, kinsman Flodden, were the theatres of our renown.
His eyes were on the ground, and it was not until they had crossed the open expanse of the shallow valley and were climbing toward the avenue of cypress that she found courage to put her question. "Have you and Mr. Cressy met before?" He raised his head with a jerk and looked at her a moment in astonishment.
Oh, that wife! my dear Elizabeth, I do hate," cried she, clasping her hands, and expressing hatred with all her soul, and with all her strength. "I detest that Lady de Cressy to such a degree, that, to purchase the pleasure of making her feel the pangs of jealousy for one hour, look, I would this moment lay down this finger and let it be cut off."
Cressy allowed his eyes to stray idly to the arriving bus and the descending passengers. Suddenly he stiffened.
The Hogue and the Cressy were lost because they came up to the rescue and were protected by no screen of destroyers, and 680 officers and men were drowned. A fourth cruiser, the Hawke, was torpedoed off Aberdeen on 15 October, and on 1 January 1915 the Formidable, of 15,000 tons, was sunk off Start Point on her way to the Dardanelles, with a loss of 600 of her crew.
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