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Somehow, the sunshine, the ripple of the water, seemed to form no part of her life, belonged rather, to Edgerton Compton rowing in solitude against the sky. Those naked trees, bare brown hills and ledges of huge stones seemed her world-boundaries, kin to her, claiming her But there was California ... and the splendid house to be built....
Within a second after that eye-closer landed Darrin struck with his right, landing on the jaw bone under Treadwell's ear. Down in a heap sank the top classman. He was unconscious before his body struck the ground. Wheeler counted off the seconds. " ten!" Still Mr. Treadwell lay motionless. "Do your best for him, gentlemen," begged Referee Edgerton, turning to the first classman's seconds. "Mr.
Oh, it can't be burned; and, if it is, it must be insured. I 'm afraid a second blow would break her down completely just now, when she has not recovered from the first." Mr. Bird went out and telegraphed to Dr. George Edgerton; Is Oliver house burned? What was the amount of insurance, if any? Answer. At four o'clock the reply came: House and outbuildings burned. No insurance.
You see, Annabel is so dainty and pretty, and naturally so sweet and Mr. Gledware well, he ISN'T. The more I thought of that, and the better I remembered poor Wilfred pining away for her in the desert, and not coming back to see me because he couldn't get HER out of his brain, and how she changed from him to his brother, and from Mr. Edgerton to Mr.
"I reckon we'd better," nodded Conners. "You must have got stiff from standing still after the late mix-up." "No kinks but what will iron out at once," chuckled Treadwell. "I'll show you as soon as I get in action." His two seconds rubbed him down loyally. "Are you ready, gentlemen?" called Midshipman Edgerton.
I yielded all opportunities for the meeting of the parties all opportunities which, in yielding, did not expose me to the suspicion of having any sinister object. If, for example, I found, or could conjecture, that William Edgerton was likely to be at my house this or that evening, I studiously intimated, beforehand, some necessity for being myself absent.
Now many an evening found Marion Sherwood whiling away a student's idle hours in the luxuriant drawing-room of Mr. Edgerton. May and he together read their favorite poets and the old classic writers, his daring mind stored with philosophy, guiding her wild imagination, her gentle goodness beguiling his holder thoughts into the paths of virtue.
Edgerton; but the same sensibilities might prompt him to reject the assistance when tendered." "No, sir," replied Edgerton, mildly "I think I could manage that."
"True; but there is something grievously wrong when the son dares not meet the eye of a parent with manly fearlessness; when he looks without joyance at the face of a mother, and shrinks from her endearments as if he felt that he deserved them not. William Edgerton is miserable; that is evident enough. Now, misery does not always imply guilt; but, in his case, what else should it imply!
Edgerton can retain it, we feed him by slow tea-spoonfuls from one-half to a whole cup of the most concentrated beef-tea prepared after Lieblg's recipe or another which I have usually found better relished, and as that, where food must be administered to fastidious stomachs, is half the battle, which I prefer.
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