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Esther was young, and pretty, and weary, and out of health; and it was at this critical moment that Lady Elwin, who, while visiting, had heard her story, promised Mrs. Saunders to find Esther another place. And to obviate all difficulties about references and character, Lady Elwin proposed to take Esther as her own servant for a sufficient while to justify her in recommending her.
She was white and still and the physician had been engaged in bathing a huge bruise upon her temple. "She'll be all right," said Sir Elwin; "she has sustained a tremendous blow, as you see. But Lord Lashmore " Dr. Cairn stepped closer to the dead man. "Heart," he said. "He died of sheer horror." He turned to Chambers, who stood in the open doorway behind him.
That was when Angus give Lysander John the scarfpin he'd sent clear to New York for a big gold bull's head with ruby eyes and in its mouth a nugget of platinum set with three diamonds. Of course Lysander John never dast wear it except when Angus was going to see it. "Then along comes Angus, Junior, though poor Ellabelle thinks for several days that he's Elwin.
Nothing shall compel me to PUBLISH what you have written. Think calmly and dispassionately over this, and when you have decided let me know. Yours very faithfully, JOHN MURRAY. The reference that had so offended Murray and Elwin had, in all probability been interpolated in proof form, otherwise it would have been discovered either when Murray read the manuscript or Elwin the proofs.
Sir Elwin Groves, whom he had seen that evening, had hinted broadly at mental trouble as the solution of Sir Michael Ferrara's peculiar symptoms. Although Sir Michael had had certain transactions with his solicitor during the early morning, he had apparently forgotten all about the matter, according to the celebrated physician.
"Between ourselves, Cairn," Sir Elwin had confided, "I believe he altered his will." The inquiry of a taxi driver interrupted Cairn's meditations. He entered the vehicle, giving Sir Michael Ferrara's address.
But it was not true: Forster's father was a large "grazier" or dealer in cattle. Elwin, however, was inflexible: some Newcastle alderman had hunted up entries in old books, and he thought the evidence convincing. Another incident connected with the memory of her much-loved husband, that gave this amiable woman much poignant distress, was a statement made by Mr.
Early on the morning of the 25th, we passed the opening in the land delineated in the former chart of this coast, in latitude 73° 34′, which we now found to be a bay about three miles deep, but apparently open to the sea. I named it after my friend, Hastings Elwin, Esq., of Bristol, as a token of grateful esteem for that gentleman.
Bending over someone who lay upon the carpet near the bedside they perceived Sir Elwin Groves. He looked up. Some little of his usual self-possession had fled. "Ah, Cairn!" he jerked. "We've both come too late." The prostrate figure was that of Lady Lashmore, a loose kimono worn over her night-robe.
'O why, asks Wesley, who was as strongly opposed to bleeding as he was fond of poulticing, 'will physicians play with the lives of their patients? 'Dr. Cheyne, writes Pope, 'was of Mr. Cheselden's opinion, that bleeding might be frequently repeated with safety, for he advised me to take four or five ounces every full moon. Elwin and Courthope's Pope's Works, ix. 162.
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