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You will all have had special notice of a measure of policy on which your Board has decided, and to which you will be asked to-day to give your adherence to that I shall come at the end of my remarks...." "Excuse me, sir; we can't hear a word down here." 'Ah! thought the secretary, 'I was expecting that. The chairman went on, undisturbed.
When the castle party went into the dining-hall, they marched off singing and shouting, and after amusing themselves a while in the village, and coaxing many a riband out of the women there, old and young, they came at last, with crowds behind them and crowds expecting them, out upon the height where the park-house was now standing. After dinner, Charlotte rather held back her guests.
Home, dined, left my wife to go to church alone, and I walked in haste being late to the Abbey at Westminster, according to promise to meet Jane Welsh, and there wearily walked, expecting her till 6 o'clock from three, but no Jane came, which vexed me, only part of it I spent with Mr.
On our way, I had explained more fully the circumstances under which we had discovered the crime which had been committed. He knew my companion by name and reputation, and he was quite at a loss to explain his absence. I scanned the road so far as it was revealed by our lights, half expecting yet dreading to see his prostrate form. But there was nothing visible.
Often had Sir Everard and De Haldimar paused momentarily from the labour of their oars, to cast an eye of anxious solicitude on the scarcely conscious girls, wishing, rather than expecting, to find the violence of their desolation abated, and that, in the full expansion of unreserved communication, they were relieving their sick hearts from the terrible and crushing weight of woe that bore them down.
"And you went to The Hague and there met the Baron van Veltrup. You put that little piece of steel into his glove. I know that you did," Rivero went on relentlessly. "Yes. De Gex paid me for it," was his reply. "As he paid Despujol eh?" "Yes." "Very well," replied Rivero. "I will note your replies. De Gex is expecting you to call upon him to-day, is he not?" "Yes. At one o'clock.
It is hard to say why one plays well one day and badly another; well, perhaps, when in bad health, and badly when as fit as possible; well, perhaps, when you have started expecting nothing, and badly when you have felt that you could hit the ball over the moon.
"I'm afraid you're expecting some one rather badly," he remarked with piercing perceptiveness. "A dull acquaintance," said I. "I shall be sorry when his arrival puts an end to our engaging conversation." Then the lift door opened and Hamdi stepped out like the Devil in an Alhambra ballet. He looked at my card and looked at me. He bowed politely.
"Yet what could I have been expecting?" he added; and his whimsical smile told him not to let himself become absurd. There were lighted windows in the front and at the side. Which of these was Cope's, and what was the boy doing? Was he deep in black-letter, or was he selecting a necktie preliminary to some evening diversion outside?
They expect his accent to have suffered an Oxford change, and Jock doesn't think he will be able to remain in the room with him and not laugh." "I expect Jock will be 'affronted," said Pamela. "But you aren't the only one who is expecting a brother, Jean, girl. Any moment I may hear that Biddy is in London. He wired from Port Said that he would come straight to Priorsford.
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