Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 16, 2025
Sir Francis Cromarty took Mr. Fogg aside, and begged him to reflect before he went any further. Mr. Fogg replied that he was not in the habit of acting rashly, that a bet of twenty thousand pounds was at stake, that the elephant was absolutely necessary to him, and that he would secure him if he had to pay twenty times his value.
The next day I held on northward, though the weather was very unfavorable and the walking heavy and fatiguing. Passed what seemed the bold and ridgy island of Cromarty, so associated with the venerated memory of Hugh Miller. The beating rain drove me frequently to the wayside cottages for shelter; and in every one of them I was received with kind words and pleasant looks.
"It looks as good as ever!" The interruption was too gratifying to offend. "Better in some ways," he said complacently. "The principle of these things is " "I did miss it this morning," she hurried on. "In fact I had to have quite a long walk. Luckily Mr. Cromarty of Stanesland gave me a lift coming home." "Oh, indeed, miss? Stanesland gave ye a lift, did he? An interesting gentleman yon."
The arrival of six bottles of aspirin, brought by a heated boy on a bicycle, from Clacton, and seized with gusto by Dr. Cromarty, completed the proof that money will not only buy anything, but will infallibly draw it to any desired spot, however out of the way the spot may be.
"Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly; "when I have the time." The project was a bold one, full of difficulty, perhaps impracticable. Mr. Fogg was going to risk life, or at least liberty, and therefore the success of his tour. But he did not hesitate, and he found in Sir Francis Cromarty an enthusiastic ally. As for Passepartout, he was ready for anything that might be proposed.
The lawyer took it as one who had seen the sword descending, but not so Ned Cromarty. "Of Simon Rattar!" he shouted. "What the then who the devil is this?" Carrington answered. He spoke with his usual easy smile, but his triumphant eye betrayed his heart. "The superintendent has omitted part of the usual formalities," he said. "This person should have been introduced as Mr. George Rattar."
Cromarty of Stanesland stood about 6 feet two and had nothing artistic in his appearance, being a lean strapping man in the neighbourhood of forty, with a keen, thin, weather-beaten face chiefly remarkable for its straight sharp nose, compressed lips, reddish eye-brows, puckered into a slight habitual frown, and the fact that the keen look of the whole was expressed by only one of his eyes, the other being a good imitation but unmistakeably glass.
I mentioned the engagement as a mere matter of course to somebody, and though I mentioned it confidentially, it started this slander about Malcolm Cromarty and Cicely Farmond conspiring to murder to murder, Lilian! the man of all men they owed most to. That's what you've done!" By this time Lilian Cromarty's handkerchief was at her eyes. "I I am very sorry, Ned," she murmured.
It was likely a wee thing of over anxiety to stop it that made me think o' the possibility of a wild man from America, which was perhaps a bit beyond the limits of what ye might call, as it were, scientific deduction." "When did Lady Cromarty begin to take up this attitude?"
Then, about a month after mother's death, I got a note from you asking me to go up to London and meet Sir Reginald Cromarty. I had never even heard of him before! Well, I went and he was simply as kind as well, as he always is to everybody, and said he was a kind of connection of my family and asked me to pay them a long visit to Keldale." "How long ago precisely was that?"
Word Of The Day
Others Looking