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Darlington's household, he began to show particular attentions to Miriam, who was in her nineteenth year, and was, as we have said, a gentle, timid, shrinking girl. Though she did not encourage, she would not reject the attentions of the polite and elegant stranger, who had so much that was agreeable to say that she insensibly acquired a kind of prepossession in his favour.
Edwin Lee proved himself not ungrateful for the kindness. In a few years he became one of Mr. Darlington's most active, trustworthy and intelligent clerks; while his kind, modest, gentlemanly deportment at home, won the favor and confidence of all the family. With Edwin, Kate grew up as with a brother. Their intercourse was of the most frank and confiding character.
The silence, broken only by the scratching of Holmes's pen, was becoming unendurable and I think I should have given way and screamed had not Holmes suddenly risen and walked to the telephone, directly back of where Cato was sitting. "I must ring for stamps," he said. "There don't seem to be any here. Darlington's getting stingy in his old age.
She was wearing ear-rings tiny, not long drooping things, they were green, small emeralds; and he remembered how he had loved her better when he saw her wearing ear-rings for the first time in Mr. Darlington's drawing-room. How definite she was in a crowd.
"In Darlington's rooms where else?" demanded Holmes. "In four hundred and seven?" I gasped. "Certainly that's our headquarters, isn't it?" he grinned. "Now see here, Raffles," I began. "Shut up Jenkins," he answered. "Just hang on to your nerve " "But suppose Darlington turns up?"
Should it be asked how I managed to keep my seat, I would answer, I hunted some years with Lord Darlington's fox-hounds. After repeated attempts to regain his liberty the cayman gave in and became tranquil through exhaustion. I now managed to tie up his jaws and firmly secured his fore-feet in the position I had held them.
Pitt's brother-in-law, a restless and impracticable intriguer. He had some such especial power of influencing Mr. At one, Sir W. Meredith moved a resolution of the illegality of the Warrant, and opened it well. He was seconded by old Darlington's brother, a convert to us. Mr. Pitt replied, that if he disdained to be excused, he would deserve to be censured. Mr.
When I found you with your 'Paradise' I don't think you meant ever to marry me." "I always liked you. But at first I didn't think of you in that way." "But you had known for ages before Burstal " "Yes, of course. I knew the day I sang at Mr. Darlington's, at that party he gave to introduce me as a singer. I knew first from your mother. She told me." "My mother?"
In any event I appreciate your kindness. It's the most cheering thing that ever happened to me." Bassett glanced at his watch. He had said all he had to say in the matter and closed the subject characteristically. "Here's a little thing I picked up to-day, a copy of Darlington's 'Narrative, he was with St.
He avoided going to places where he thought he might meet her: to Esme Darlington's, to Mrs. Chetwinde's, to one or two other houses which she frequented; he even gave up visiting Jenkins's gymnasium because he knew she continued to go there regularly with Jimmy Clarke, whom, since the divorce case, with his father's consent, she had taken away from school and given to the care of a tutor.
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