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It is an unjust fact that if a man can play the fiddle, give legal opinions, and black boots just tolerably, he is called an Admirable Crichton, but if he does all three thoroughly well, he is apt to be regarded, in the several departments, as a common fiddler, a common lawyer, and a common boot-black. This is what has happened in the case of Stevenson. If "Dr.
"You are not going to run into danger, William?" she said, still softly. "Nay, mother mine," he answered, smiling, "do not fear, I do but ride to visit the Chancellor Crichton in his castle, and also to bid farewell to the French ambassador, who abode here as our guest." A sudden light shone in upon the mind of Maud Lindesay.
He has the handsomeness and ostentation of a Buckingham, the wealth of a Beckford, the generosity of a Carlisle, the invincible pretensions of a Crichton, the self-commitals and bravery of a Digby, the lucklessness of a Stuart, and the nonchalance "under difficulties" of "Milord What-then" in Voltaire's Princess of Babylon, where the noble traveller is discovered philosophically reading the news-paper in his carriage after it was overturned.
Crichton had breathed on the faintness revivingly, and Maggie mentioned her purpose as a conception of her very own, to the success of which she designed to devote her morning.
Crichton had breathed on the faintness revivingly, and Maggie mentioned her purpose as a conception of her very own, to the success of which she designed to devote her morning.
From there to the hand of Sir Crichton which, from having touched the envelope, would also be scented with the perfume was a certain move." "My God! How horrible!" I exclaimed, and glanced apprehensively into the dusky shadows of the room. "What is your theory respecting this creature what shape, what color ?" "It is something that moves rapidly and silently.
I do not know any topic upon which he was not absolutely uninformed, and his contributions to conversation, delivered in that ringing baritone of his, were appallingly dull. Often I have seen him utterly flatten some cheerful clever person of the Crichton type with one of his simple garden-roller remarks plain, solid, and heavy, which there was no possibility either of meeting or avoiding.
And then the clatter and swoop of Mounted Policeman Van Sweller! Oh, it was but the story has not yet been printed. When it is you shall learn bow he sent his bay like a bullet after the imperilled victoria. A Crichton, a Croesus, and a Centaur in one, he hurls the invincible combination into the chase.
"Admirable Crichton, wasn't it?" "Yes, that was the name. Well, your Major seems a wonderful chap," she said. "Do ask him. Perhaps he'll bring some of his officers here." "I hope he won't, Mrs. Rice," remarked Goddard. "If he does, it's evident that none of us will have a look in with you." She smirked, well pleased, as she caught Noreen's eye and rose from the table.
Bultitude's feelings prevented him from making any intelligible reply. The Rubicon "My three schoolfellows, Whom I will trust as I will adders fanged; They bear the mandate." Paul never quite knew how the remainder of that day passed at Crichton House.
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