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His downcast eyes presently noticed that she wore shoes of a peculiar kind white canvas with soles of plaited cord; in the course of conversation he learnt that these were a memento of the Basque country, about which Miss Elvan talked with a very pretty enthusiasm. Will went away, after all, in a dissatisfied mood. Girls were to him merely a source of disquiet.
If it had come to me from a fine old three-bottle ancestor! But I, who never had a grandfather, and hardly tasted wine till I was thirty years old why, I feel ashamed to call myself gouty. Sit down, my wife's at church. Strange thing that people still go to church but they do, you know. Force of habit, force of habit. Rosamund's with her." "Miss Elvan?" asked Warburton, with surprise.
Of course she must have told her friend, and whether Miss Cross will ever come to the shop again, I don't know. I never mentioned that name to you, did I? The Crosses were friends of Norbert Franks. And, by the bye, I hear that Franks was married to Miss Elvan a few days ago just after her awful discovery. No doubt she told him, and perhaps he'll drop my acquaintance." "You don't mean that?"
Of course I've noticed before now that you have an objection. Out with it!" "Have you seen Miss Elvan again?" "No. Have you?" "Two or three times." Franks was surprised. "Where?" "Oh, we've had some walks together." "The deuce you have!" cried Franks, with a laugh. "Don't you want to know what we talked about," pursued Warburton, looking at him with half-closed eyelids. "Principally about you."
The rock is of trap, greenstone, or whinstone, which miners call iron-stone and Cornishmen 'blue elvan: this diorite, composed of felspar and the hardest hornblende, contains granular iron and pyrites like silver. We find the same trap on the mainland. From the surf-boat we remarked that there were no sharks; apparently they shun coming within the reefs.
She had never dreamt of being an artist, but, showing some facility with the pencil, was sent by her father to South Kensington, where she met and made friends with Rosamund Elvan. Her necessity and her application being greater than Rosamund's, Bertha before long succeeded in earning a little money; without this help, life at home would scarcely have been possible for her.
"A pity, a pity!" said Ralph, shaking his head and smiling. "Don't you think so?" "Why, yes. I've always thought so." Will knew that this was not strictly the truth. But in this moment he refused to see anything but the dimly suggested possibility that Franks might meet again with Rosamund Elvan, and again succumb to her charm.
"Of course, I don't know much about it. But it looks bad. Perhaps it's the best thing that could have happened to Franks, for it may mean that he hasn't made money fast enough to please her." "But you gave us quite another idea of Miss Elvan," said his mother. "Yes, I daresay I did. Who knows? I don't pretend to understand such things." A little before sunset came Mr.
At once she sprang out of bed, slipped on her dressing-gown, and rang the bell. Two letters were brought up to her; she received them with tremulous hand. Both were addressed in writing, unmistakably masculine; the one was thick, the other was thin and this she opened first. "Dear Miss Elvan" it was Warburton who wrote "I hoped to see you this evening, as we had appointed.
Curiously enough, we next hear of him in the East, where he is confounded with the prophet Elijah. Early in the century he appeared to Fadhilah, under peculiar circumstances. After the Arabs had captured the city of Elvan, Fadhilah, at the head of three hundred horsemen, pitched his tents, late in the evening, between two mountains.
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