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Frank gave for his share of the evening's amusements a further account of his adventures; then a tale was read; and at last Charles, Ernest's second brother, who had lately returned from Germany, undertook to give a terrible ghost story which he had heard in that country, and which, as he said, had the advantage of being entirely true, though he was not disposed to quarrel with those who would not believe it.
For relief Monte turned to the tennis courts, and played so much in the next week that he went stale and in the club tournament put up the worst game of his life. That evening, in disgust, he boarded the train for Monte Carlo, and before eleven o'clock had lost five thousand francs at roulette which was more than even he could afford for an evening's entertainment that did not entertain.
All would have been well but for a bright idea which struck some undiscovered youth at the back of the room. "Three cheers for Fenn!" observed this genial spirit, in no uncertain voice. The idea caught on. It was just what was wanted to give a finish to the evening's festivities. Fenn had done well by the house.
Listen and laugh, before we settle down to the evening's study-grind." "Dear Anne," ran Davy's letter, "I take my pen to tell you that we are all pretty well and hope this will find you the same. It's snowing some today and Marilla says the old woman in the sky is shaking her feather beds. Is the old woman in the sky God's wife, Anne? I want to know. "Mrs.
Through the gaping doors you saw a tightly-packed crowd of men, women, and children, drinking at the bar or waiting to have their jugs filled, tobacco smoke wreathing above their heads. With few exceptions the frequenters of the Walk turned into the public-house as a natural incident of the evening's business.
Beaumont spoke of the evening's performance, putting questions to Montgomery with a view to attracting Mr. Cox's attention. 'Do you think, Mr. Montgomery, that to take an encore for my song will interfere with the piece? 'I never heard of a lady putting the piece before herself, said Montgomery, with a loud laugh, for he, too, was anxious to attract Mr.
For one thing it had plate-glass windows and a gorgeous sign painted thereon. Its double doors were wide, and at the front was a bar with a brass rail that, by its very brightness, told only too plainly that the evening's trade had not commenced.
When at last the evening's festivities, if such they might be termed, were over, it was Andre, preceded by a couple of soldiers with lanterns, who escorted them back to their home, and at Janice's request he ordered the two men to remain in the now deserted house. "They must leave you before daybreak," the officer warned them; "but they will assure you a quiet night.
However, thinking he would send the fragments, such as they were, to Graye, in order to satisfy him that he had done his best so far, he scribbled a line, and put all except the silk and cotton into an envelope. Looking at his watch, he found it was then twenty minutes to seven; by affixing an extra stamp he would be enabled to despatch them by that evening's post.
Charles Seabohn, accompanied by an unmarried sister, had lately come to reside in the neighbourhood, having, upon the death of a former tenant, taken the lease of a small farmhouse sheltered in the valley a mile beyond the village, and that her favourite evening's walk was to the sea and back by the steep footway leading past the Witches' Cauldron.
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