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From the threshold he demanded, "So you listened, did you?" The visitor replied slowly and with a level voice: "We had not meant to overhear a private conversation but we did hear." "I suppose you realize that what you heard in no way concerns you?" The voice was surcharged with challenge, and under its sting Edwardes found self-composure a difficult matter.
"The Emperor there in his box of state, looked grave as though he had just then seen, The red flags fly from the city gates, where his eagles of bronze had been." His gaze dropped to the white fur of the rug and abstractedly he picked up his sister's riding-crop and one glove. She had dropped them when Jefferson Edwardes placed the ring on her finger.
Edwardes said about diet, and I told him afterwards that he was an arch-humbug; but it turned out that he had been bothered all his life at least he said so by indigestion, and that at Wellingham he had lived on some peculiar biscuit for nearly a fortnight, which recalled to my mind what Ward had said to me about him.
Edwardes," she spoke almost dreamily. "Perhaps it's because I've been listening to the voice of the hills, but I have been sitting here alone hiding and while I've been here I've been thinking of you wondering where you were." "For that, too, I thank 'whatever gods there be," he assured her. "It has been a long time since we met and I was afraid you had forgotten.
Lieutenant Edwardes, with his irregulars, was to supply their place; but, when all was prepared, the enemy himself attacked the British position, and the very men whose fidelity had been doubted gave such evident proof of their loyalty that they were allowed to take part in the action. The enemy was soon repulsed, and the British advanced, as had been intended.
Do you think you're the Queen of Sheba?" The girl shrank back into the shadows at the edge of the room, and, as young Edwardes glanced that way, he heard a muffled sob and knew that she had fled up the stairs in chagrin, a pitiful little would-be princess whose dream splendor had been shattered with a reprimand.
Slowly she straightened up and her pupils dilated as though they were seeing something invisible to other eyes. Her lips parted and she drew away from his grasp and stood gazing ahead. Then she brushed one arm across her forehead. With instant alarm Edwardes caught her shoulders. "What is it?" he demanded. "Is anything wrong?"
Colonel Edwardes, I don't wish to keep you any longer, owing to the circumstance that 'Long Tom' of Bulwaan may interfere in this conference, but once more I thank you one and all." Lusty cheers were then given for Sir George White, General Hunter, General Brocklehurst, and Colonel Edwardes.
The Subby was a nice enough man in some ways, but in others he was simply hopeless. He was not so absolutely unapproachable as Mr. Edwardes, for although you had got to imagine for all you were worth you could think of him as an "undergrad," but when Murray and I tried to persuade ourselves that Mr.
"Sometimes it surprises himself. But most of the mightiest made their own chance." "I know that. I'm going to make mine. Power is what I want an' it's what I'm goin' to have. But I've got to get away from here. Julius Cæsar couldn't do nothin' here." When Jefferson Edwardes came down stairs Mary, who had slipped timidly away, edged into the room, bashful and adorned.
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