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A young man was to come with him to take care of him, and they were to travel very slowly indeed; might be at home in a fort-night. "They may be here to-night," said Mrs. Parlin. This letter had been written to prepare the family for Captain Clifford's arrival. It was expected that aunt Madge would break the news to his wife.
Some one else had aroused her suspicions, and if any one it must have been Raines. It was not the mother, he felt sure. For some time Clayton's mother and sister had been urging him to make a visit home. He had asked leave of absence, but it was a busy time, and he had delayed indefinitely. In a fort-night, however, the stress of work would be over, and then he meant to leave.
The exception was Police-constable Collins, and he, after tracking the skulking figure of Mr. Blows and finally bringing it to bay in a doorway, kept his for a fort-night. As a sensible man, Mr.
"Incidentally, the Colthwaite people will wonder why it didn't occur to them before to send one of their gloom men to live at the Cactus. Fact is, I've been looking for the chap for more than a fort-night." It was the evening of the day after Harry, who had insisted on trudging up and down the line all day, instead of using his horse, had a touch of heat headache.
Either it must be fought out and the fact that China's military strength could not arrest the steps of the foreign troops, and that a fort-night sufficed for them to march victoriously from the sea to Peking, was in itself sufficient to show that nothing could be hoped from the noble idea of "no surrender" or at all costs some peaceful arrangement must be made.
He handed this letter to his daughter to read, but she refused. "I have implicit confidence in you," said she. Mr. Coventry acknowledged receipt of the letter, thanked Mr. Carden for the kind and feeling way in which he had inflicted the wound, and said that he had a verbal communication to make before he could quite drop the matter; would be down in about a fort-night.
There lingered along in the recollection of the family some vague memories of her having tried to assert an authority over Celia's comings and goings at the outset, but they grouped themselves as only parts of the general disorder of moving and settling, which a fort-night or so quite righted. Mrs.
"Only," as Mrs. Bolitho said to her husband, "one thing's certain, she do love 'im with all her heart and soul poor lamb." When Martin and Maggie had been at the farm about a fort-night, there came to St. Dreot's a travelling circus. This was a very small affair, but it came every year, and provided considerable excitement for the village population.
"Yes," he acknowledged with some hesitation. "I rather wonder at grandpa." "I wonder how it is going to end," said Zoe: "they are both so very determined, I should not like to stand in Lulu's shoes, nor yet in his." A second letter from Betty, received a fort-night later, told how it had ended: though Betty, not being in Lulu's confidence as Evelyn was, knew nothing of Capt.
'I shall not be at home again, perhaps for some time; I wish you would write to me say once a fort-night: every alternate Monday: to the General Post Office in London. Will you? 'Oh! certainly, sir; I shall be proud to do it, exclaimed Oliver, greatly delighted with the commission.
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