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"'And I deny it, interrupted Estes, rudely, and stared straight at Balencourt. A quick glance answered his challenge; it was like the engaging of rapiers. "'Perhaps Mr. Estes desires proof, said Balencourt, slowly. "'I do. "'Let us say between "'To-night and the 1st of August. "'That will suit me perfectly. My passage is booked on the Teutoninc for the following Wednesday.
To most of the present generation the book will possess all the charm of novelty. Estes & Lauriat, Publishers, Boston. Italian Cities Illustrated ROME OF TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY: The Pagan Centuries. By John Dennie. New holiday edition. Illustrated with maps, plans, and twenty full-page plates, reproducing, in photogravure, photographs of the most important points of interest.
Sir Humphrey Hyde and Ralph Drake, who was a far-off cousin of hers; and my Lord Estes, who was on a visit to his kinsman, Lord Culpeper, the Governor of Virginia; and half a score of others pressed before me, who was but the tutor, and had no right to do her such service except for lack of another at hand.
I did not understand the mathematical statement, but he put it in common-sense terms, which I apprehended perfectly, though I never could repeat them. Estes Howe, Lowell's brother-in-law, and John Holmes, the brother of Oliver Wendell, considered by many of the Cambridge set the wittier and wiser of the two, but who, being extremely averse to publicity, was never known in literature.
"Up to this moment I had kept silence, but now I must make my one try. 'He is but a boy, I said, leaning my elbows on the table and seeking to plumb the soul-depths in the cold, gray eyes of the man who sat opposite to me. But Balencourt only laughed amusedly. "'Then he should not assume a man's "'Will you come now, Cousin Esper? interrupted Estes.
It would be only for a little time, at most; only that he might, at opportune moments, look about in hope of making some discovery. "But what can it possibly accomplish?" urged Mrs. Ellison. "Lawyer Estes has had the mill searched a dozen times, and there has been nothing found. How can you expect to find anything? Colonel Witham wouldn't give you the chance, anyway.
Estes had said more than one imprudent thing that evening, and this time he had gone too far. I would have to get the boy away somehow. "There were three of us dining with Balencourt that evening at his chambers in the Argyle Estes, Crawfurd, and myself; and as usual we had had an excellent dinner, for Balencourt knew how to live. Who was Balencourt?
Toward noon I reached Fort Collins, Colorado, fifty miles from Long's Peak, where there was no stage connection with Estes Park, but Loveland, a town fifteen miles south, had a horse stage that made three trips a week. The fare, I learned, was quite prohibitive, three dollars for something more than thirty miles. The walk would be interesting, I decided.
And all the masters who worked for the Este dukes, whether they were men of native or foreign birth Vittore Pisanello and Jacopo Bellini, Cosimo Tura and Dosso Dossi took delight in the old story, and painted the legend of St. George and Princess Sabra in the frescoes or altar-pieces with which they adorned the churches and castle halls. The Estes, who took St.
Both from the court of Alberto Pio at Carpi, where he found refuge with a kinsman of the Estes, and at Venice, where he founded his famous printing-press, he kept up frequent communications with the duke's family, and dedicated books to young Cardinal Ercole, and bound and printed choice editions of Petrarch and Virgil for his sister Isabella d'Este.
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