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The doctor drew a long breath, and beamed upon the company with a benevolent smile. "Oh yes," said he; "I can answer that question, if you care to know and won't feel bored." "Answer it, then, my dear fellow, by all means," said Featherstone, in his most languid tone. "There are two ways," said the doctor, "by which the polar compression of the earth has been found out.
While all this was passing at the farm, Colonel Lane and Mrs Jane were speeding, post-haste, to France. The Colonel explained to Featherstone, whom alone of his servants he took with him, that he and his sister having had the honour of performing an important service to the King, their lives were in danger from the resentment of the Parliamentary party.
But Solomon makes it no secret what he means to do." "The more fool he!" said Mr. Featherstone, with some difficulty; breaking into a severe fit of coughing that required Mary Garth to stand near him, so that she did not find out whose horses they were which presently paused stamping on the gravel before the door. Before Mr.
Featherstone here looked over his spectacles at Fred, while he handed back the letter to him with a contemptuous gesture, "you don't suppose I believe a thing because Bulstrode writes it out fine, eh?" Fred colored. "You wished to have the letter, sir. I should think it very likely that Mr. Bulstrode's denial is as good as the authority which told you what he denies." "Every bit.
Featherstone had a quiet, genial manner and seemed to have read much, though he held the narrow views that sometimes mark the untraveled Englishman. He appeared to be scrupulously just and showed sound judgment about matters he understood, but he had strong prejudices and Foster did not think him clever.
All Germany rests upon a bank of coral; and they seem to have been most active during the Oolitic Period." "How do the creatures act?" asked Featherstone. "Nobody knows," replied the doctor. A silence now followed, which was at last broken by Oxenden. "After all," said he, "these monsters and marvels of nature form the least interesting feature in the land of the Kosekin.
Women, too, are getting to be so attached to the trappings and accessories of life that they cannot think of marriage without an amount of fortune which few young men possess." "You are talking in very low numbers about the dress of women," said Miss Featherstone.
"Whose monument is this?" asked Featherstone; "I am all in the dark tell me." Geoffrey, who had been employed in the office of the Governor of the prison, and who had, on hearing this old monument was to be repaired, volunteered on behalf of the three others to do the work, now told the story of the old monument as he had learned it from the prison records which he had been transcribing.
His shoulders were bent, his clothes hung slackly on his powerful frame, and Featherstone thought his hair had grown whiter since he saw him last. He looked ill, but his face was hard and resolute, and when he let his eyes rest on the young men his mouth was firmly set.
And the two decrepit old men "heaved," as he called turning the handle of the windlass, until their old joints cracked. "That'll do; slack away!" and they rested panting, while the rope was fixed for another grip. "Geoffrey," whispered Featherstone, with his head bent beside the stone, "look at that old fellow on the road.
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