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I have become what I am, because to me the broad canvas alone is interesting, and picayunish prejudices are contemptible. You bring into my house a visage of disapproval, and when you overhear private talk permit yourself to sneer. It is intolerable." There was such a ring of sincerity in the voicing of this distorted reasoning that Edwardes almost smiled.
He had need of all he knew, as Murray Edwardes had warned him. But luckily he knew a great deal; his thought was clearing and settling month by month, and whatever he may have lost at any moment by the turn of an argument, he recovered immediately afterward by the force of personality, and of a single-mindedness in which there was never a trace of personal grasping.
Edwardes and Edwardes is a synonym for Gibraltar." "And under heavy enough artillery " Edwardes spoke with bitter calmness "Gibraltar would be a synonym for scattered junk. What news from Washington?" "Washington has called Burton on the telephone. The Secretary of the Treasury has failed to connect with him. He does not acknowledge telegrams.
He took his full share in the politics and literature started at the table, and presently, when conversation fell on the proposed municipality for London, said things to which the whole party listened. Robert's curiosity was aroused, and after breakfast he questioned his host and was promptly introduced to 'Mr. Murray Edwardes.
The outlook was gloomy enough, for I was bound to have rows with Mr. Edwardes as long as I had anything to do with him, and if I could have been of any use in trying to improve things, I knew that unless some new dons came I should have to spend most of my time in looking after myself. I wished that Fred had come to St.
In the house in Edwardes Square I seem to have been always meeting Norah Thesiger. Now that they had a room to put her in, she would be there for months at a time. And whenever she was there they would be sure to ask me. If Jevons didn't, Viola did. There was that summer, too, when Norah and Mildred came together with Charlie Thesiger, their cousin, who was engaged to Mildred.
Edwardes objected strongly to phrases which seemed to me beautifully rounded, and I gave them up slowly as one of my most cherished possessions. I could not share his feelings about them at that time, whatever I may think of them now, and they formed a part of a scheme to make my essays less dull, and what I was fain to think even a little amusing.
And he forthwith carried off his visitor to the point from which, as it seemed to him, Elsmere's work might start, viz., a lecture-room half a mile from his own chapel, where two helpers of his had just established an independent venture. Murray Edwardes had at the time an interesting and miscellaneous staff of lay-curates.
The lady replied pleasantly. Her companion, who was carrying his hat in his hand, paused reluctantly. "Did you want to see me?" he asked. "If you are Mr. Heseltine-Wrigge, I did," Peter admitted. "I am the Baron de Grost, and I have a letter of introduction to you from Mr. Edwardes." Mr. Heseltine-Wrigge tore open the envelope and glanced through the contents of the note.
There was no news of Edwardes and Fowler. This news upset the apple-cart, and telegrams began to fly around, with the result that Colonel Kelly was put in command of the troops in the Gilgit district, with full civil powers on his line of operations. This telegram arrived on the evening of the 22nd.
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