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'Er Mr Bentley, that is all. You may return to your work ah'mmm! Kindly be more careful another time in stamping the letters. 'Yes, by Jove, said Mr Prosser, suddenly reminded of his wrongs, 'that's right. Exercise a little ordinary care, you ivory-skulled young son of a gun. Do you think Miss Delane is made of twopences? Keep an eye on him, he urged the manager.
She could not put all this baldly to Kirk, so she placed the burden of her refusal on the adequate shoulders of Lora Delane Porter. Aunt Lora, she said, would never hear of William Bannister wandering at large in such an unhygienic fashion.
No she had never heard Rachel mention the name. But it happened that Dempsey had given a precise date. It was in the "November before they Passed Conscription" in Canada, i.e. before he himself was called up that he saw Mrs. Delane, at night, in Dick Tanner's house.
The Journal gives the chronicle of the last weeks of the year: November 22nd. Visit to Chatsworth. Delane died. 23rd. Chatsworth. Long talk with Lord Hartington. 29th. Delane's funeral at Easthampstead. At Christmas severe illness came on gout and violent bleeding of the nose. I was totally laid up for two months.
They say he was a brute to her. And she was awfully handsome. You couldn't forget her when you'd once come across her. And when I saw Miss Henderson drivin' one of the wagons in the Millsborough Harvest Festival, a fortnight ago, I could have sworn it was Mrs. Delane. But, of course, it was my mistake." "Where did you see Mrs. Delane?" "Once at her own place.
The two looked down on the now rapidly filling road, for all Simla was abroad to steal a stroll between a shower and a fog. 'How do you propose to fix that river? Look! There's The Mussuck head of goodness knows what. He is a power in the land, though he does eat like a costermonger. There's Colonel Blone, and General Grucher, and Sir Dugald Delane, and Sir Henry Haughton, and Mr. Jellalatty.
The report galvanized Steve, as, earlier in the day, a similar report had galvanized Mr. Penway; but Kirk did not move. "Mr. Winfield!" Still Kirk made no sign that he had heard her. It was discouraging, but Lora Delane Porter was not made of the stuff that yields readily to discouragement.
Delane of the London Times, should not write himself, but select the topics and procure the writing upon them by others. And so long as a man is merely an anonymous writer for a paper, so long as he writes to sustain the views of the paper, his actual opinions, being unknown to the reader, do not affect the power of the paper.
Delane followed all these remarks with close attention, and continued a rather skilful examination.
There was Farmer Broughton I seed, an' I don't know nobody else." "Well, but the second wagon?" said Delane impatiently. "Oh, the second wagon. Why, that was Miss Henderson. Don't ye know 'er? I works for 'er?" "Is she on the land?" The old man laughed. "That she be! She's a farmer, is Miss Henderson, an' she frames pretty fair.
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