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It's something that comes and finds you once in a life-time. I'll bet that in three months of trying you couldn't, to save your life, have a real adventure in this town I mean an adventure out of the ordinary. Elopements and automobile smash-ups are barred." "How much will you bet?" asked Judson Green. "A hundred," said the other man, whose name was Wainwright.
Supposin' ye took out iv a newspaper all th' murdhers, an' suicides, an' divorces, an elopements, an' fires, an' disease, an' war, an' famine, he says, 'ye wudden't have enough left to keep a man busy r-readin' while he rode ar-roun' th' block on th' lightnin' express.
Of these I but remember tall old Miss Wintletop, most entertaining of rustic old maids, with her nice lace and thick satin, and her small, kindly round face pretty, I dare say, in other days, and now frosty, but kindly who told us such delightful old stories of the county in her father's and grandfather's time; who knew the lineage of every family in it, and could recount all its duels and elopements; give us illustrative snatches from old election squibs, and lines from epitaphs, and tell exactly where all the old-world highway robberies had been committed: how it fared with the chief delinquents after the assizes; and, above all, where, and of what sort, the goblins and elves of the county had made themselves seen, from the phantom post-boy, who every third night crossed Windale Moor, by the old coach-road, to the fat old ghost, in mulberry velvet, who showed his great face, crutch, and ruffles, by moonlight, at the bow window of the old court-house that was taken down in 1803.
He had not yet made up his mind as to the nature of the mystery which was surrounding the Court and its inmates, but vaguely he thought of abductions and elopements, which the presence of the richest heiress in the South of England in the house of the poorest squire in the whole country, more than foreshadowed.
Kate and Archibald saw one another as much as was good for them although, by way of keeping up the chivalric conditions, they used to pretend that all manner of portentous obstacles intervened between them and the consummation of their desires; and exhausted their ingenuity in the devising of secret meetings, of elopements across the garden wall, and of heart-rending separations, when imaginary heartless parents tore them ruthlessly from one another's arms.
Why, a marriage with me the moment you'll give me ay." "But I care no more for you than I do for Mr. Hennion; and even " "But I'll make you care for me," interrupted Jack, ardently. "And even if I did," concluded Janice, "you yourself helped to teach me what the world thinks of elopements." "Ah, don't let don't deny " "No, once for all; and release me, sir, I beg."
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There were suicides and murders and elopements, family troubles, poverty, desire for freedom and adventure; innumerable complex causes, even down to kidnapping. The question was, however, which of these causes had been in operation in the case of Betty Blackwell? Where had she gone? Where had this whole army of vanishers disappeared?
"The grandfather of the owner of this hair, of whom it is the last souvenir, after many adventures, duels and elopements, at about sixty-five fell madly in love with his farmer's daughter. I knew them both. She was blond, pale, distinguished-looking, with a slow manner of talking, a quiet voice and a look so gentle that one might have taken her for a Madonna.
"You don't know what a load on my mind that money has been, and how I was growing to detest Mr. Draconmeyer." He smiled. "I was rather hating the beast myself," he admitted. "Tell me, what are your plans, really?" "I hadn't made any," she confessed, "except to get away as quickly as I could." He leaned a little across the table. "Elopements are rather in the fashion," he said. "What do you think?
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