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Fordyce, Miss Peck, was mortally afraid and that very kind-hearted person would have been amazed had she known how the little spinster, metaphorically speaking, shrank into herself in her presence. The solemn warning she had received did not, however, prevent her giving the two girls a warm welcome when they presented themselves at the house that afternoon.
He came over to the door, and then he smiled his radiant, irresistible smile so like a mischievous jolly boy's. "Give me joy, Henry, old friend," he said, and held out his hand. But Henry Fordyce looked grave as a judge as he took it. "I can't do that, Michael. I am very angry with you.
The roaring world in which he would find himself, the strange examination-room, the quizzing professors would these combine with his native shyness to seal the lips and cramp the pen of Robert Chalmers Fordyce? No a thousand times no! He would win through! Robert set his teeth, braced himself, and kicked the man opposite.
Fordyce listened kindly, kissed Emily, and told her not to be distressed, for possibly it might turn out to have been the best thing for Ellen to have learnt the fact at such a moment; and, at any rate, it had spared her parents some doubt and difficulty as to the communication. 'And am I then forgot, forgot? It broke the heart of Ellen!
He had been kind when, in his own rugged way, the first harshness of his bearing towards her had swiftly been mellowed by her own sweet, subtle influence. We must not too harshly blame Abel Graham; his environment had been of a kind to foster the least beautiful attributes of his nature. The only being Gladys could think of to help her with the other arrangements was Mr. Fordyce.
Nowell would, I had no doubt, be wandering about searching for me, and Mr Fordyce could not fail to be excessively anxious at our not returning. To start off again through the forest in the expectation of falling in with them seemed worse than useless.
'Now, Clara, you will take Miss Graham up-stairs. I think you must allow us to call you Gladys, my dear, said Mrs. Fordyce. 'I am going to leave you in charge of Clara. When you know us better, you will find out that it takes Mina all her time to take charge of herself. Mina shook her finger at her mother, and a slight blush rose to her happy face.
"Odd, is n't it, father, the old man's asking me to come and see him? Those old stub-twist constitutions never want patching." "Old man! old man! Who's that you call old, not Byles Gridley, hey? Old! old! Sixty year, more or less! How old was Floyer when he died, Fordyce? Ninety-odd, was n't it? Had the asthma though, or he'd have lived to be as old as Dr. Holyoke, a hundred year and over.
Fordyce said she could never forget what she owed to us all, and could not think of blaming any of us.
"Good heavens, man, you don't surely mean that they, those two dear friends " "Don't ask questions, come!" rapped in Cleek, then whirled out of the room and flew down the passage to the partition door, and pounded heavily upon it. "Doctor Fordyce, Doctor Fordyce, open the door, come quickly. Something has happened to Captain Bridewell," he called.
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