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In the same breath, they were both at the half-opened door of the room, Fairford entreating to speak with the Father Buonaventure, and Lilias, equally vehemently, requesting a moment's interview with her uncle.
By the Regiam, Fairford Daddie Fairford lend us twal pennies to buy sneeshing, mine is done Macer, call another cause. The box fell from his hands, and his body would at the same time have fallen from the chair, had not I supported him. 'This is intolerable, said my father 'Call a chairman, James Wilkinson, to carry this degraded, worthless, drunken beast home.
Charles Bowen, seated, one rainy evening of the Paris season, in a corner of the great Nouveau Luxe restaurant, was lazily trying to resolve his impressions of the scene into the phrases of a letter to his old friend Mrs. Henley Fairford.
'Why, Master Trumbull, replied Job, 'you know that when we are chased, it's no time to shorten sail, and so the boys do ride whip and spur. He stopped in his speech, observing the old man had vanished through the door by which he had entered 'That's always the way with old Turnpenny, he said to Fairford; 'he cares for nothing of the trade but the profit now, d me, if I don't think the fun of it is better worth while.
Leta kept her word, and neither accepted nor gave invitations all that time. We were cut off from all society but that of old General Fairford, who would go anywhere and meet anyone to get a rubber after dinner; the doctor, a sporting widower; and the Duberlys, a giddy, rather rackety young couple who had taken the Dower House for a year. Lady Carwitchet seemed perfectly content.
Fairford hesitated a moment, and, hastily revolving all circumstances, concluded that he might perhaps receive some advantage from propitiating this personage; while, on the other hand, he endangered nothing by communicating to him the occasion of his journey. He, therefore, after stating shortly that he hoped Mr.
But come along, my fine chap; I must stow you away in safety until it is time to go aboard. Fairford followed his gruff guide among a labyrinth of barrels and puncheons, on which he had more than once like to have broken his nose, and from thence into what, by the glimpse of the passing lantern upon a desk and writing materials, seemed to be a small office for the dispatch of business.
'I am, said Fairford, hastily, 'the particular friend of a young man not unknown to you, Miss Geddes the friend of Darsie Latimer and am come hither in the utmost anxiety, having understood from Provost Crosbie, that he had disappeared in the night when a destructive attack was made upon the fishing-station of Mr. Geddes.
Though she would not for the world have owned it to her parents, Undine was disappointed in the Fairford dinner. The house, to begin with, was small and rather shabby.
His reasons for remaining incognito were cogent enough to account for this, and Fairford hastened to relieve him, by looking downwards in his turn; but when again he raised his face, he found the broad light eye of the stranger so fixed on him that he was almost put out of countenance by the steadiness of his gaze. During this time they remained standing.
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