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How are you getting along, Patty, down here without your fond but strict parents?" "Getting along finely, Roger. Aunt Adelaide plays propriety, and Mona and I keep house." "H'm, I'm 'fraid I scared off our long-haired friend," said Roger, as Cromer rose and drifted away. "Never mind, I want to talk to you a little myself.
I remember pointing out to him that Hay was really the best illustration that he could have had for one of his favourite theories, that is, that the people who in their youth had been private secretaries were, other things being equal, the best people to whom to give big appointments. Cromer used to say that the reason for this was a very plain one.
Many a good man has lost an appointment, from being nervous and embarrassed when he applied for it." "You want to go up to the Soudan?" Lord Cromer said. "Mr. Murray has told me your reasons for wanting to go. Though I fear it is hardly likely that any new light can be thrown upon the fate of Hicks Pasha, and his officers, I feel that it is a natural desire on your part."
Instead, I found him plain and straightforward, but as kind as he was quick. After luncheon, we had a very long talk which was at last interrupted by Lord Cromer having to go out to open something or to see somebody. As I was saying good-bye he suddenly said: "I suppose you can keep a secret?" I made a suitable reply, and added I had a lock to my portmanteau.
He never had any difficulty in passing himself off as a German. Well I remember his delight when he was claimed as a fellow Rheinländer by a German officer we met, one summer before the war, combining golf with a little useful espionage at Cromer. I don't think Francis had any ulterior motive in his study of German.
One who was a frequent guest at Cromer Hall wrote: ‘I wish I could describe the impression made upon me by the extraordinary power of interesting and stimulating others which was possessed by Sir Fowell Buxton some thirty years ago.
To the north of Cromer are other fine illustrations of contorted drift reposing on a floor of Chalk horizontally stratified and having a level surface. These phenomena, in themselves sufficiently difficult of explanation, are rendered still more anomalous by the occasional enclosure in the drift of huge fragments of Chalk many yards in diameter. d. Chalk with regular layers of flints. c.
So carefully was the measuring done that at a short distance it looked exactly like a parcheesi board, except the colouring. "Now," said Cromer, when the ground was ready, "each of you four 'Players' must fix up your corner 'Homes' with a different colour." So Daisy chose pink, and Mona blue, and Mr. Kenerley yellow, and Laurence Cromer green.
The journalist, he declared, was "the watch-dog of society." Stead, though a man of honest intent and very great ability, was also a man of many failings, many ineptitudes, many prejudices, and many injustices witness the attitude he adopted in his last years towards Lord Cromer. Further, there was an element of commonness in his mental attitude as in his style.
Then dismissing the whole subject from her mind, she went to bed and to sleep. Next day she went in search of Laurence Cromer, and found that young man sketching in a corner of one of the picturesque terraces of "Red Chimneys." "Why these shyness?" asked Patty, as he quickly closed his sketch- book at her approach. "Why these modest coquetry? Art afraid of me? Gentle little me?
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