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Not even the After-Clap's pranks could make him smile, nor were the After-Clap's orders always orders to him that day. In the late afternoon Mrs. Fortescue, seeing Kettle seated in a corner of the back hall, and evidently in an introspective mood, asked him: "What's been the matter with you all day, Kettle?" "I'm a-seekin', Miss Betty," Kettle replied solemnly. "What are you seeking?" Mrs.
Save as to matters that did not particularly interest me, Ramon was as reticent as his master; and as Geist had only been with Mr. Fortescue during the latter's residence at Kingscote, his knowledge, or, rather, his ignorance was on a par with my own. Mr. Fortescue's character was as enigmatic as his history was obscure.
We ought to kill seven hundred pheasants in it with this team, but I doubt if we shall get five. Now, Mr. Quatermain, I am going to stand Sir Junius Fortescue and you back in the covert, where you will have the best of it, as a lot of pheasants will never face the lake against this wind.
"At least you have your work to live for, which is to live for many, instead of for one or two." "Ah, that does not satisfy the heart." "What does?" Hadria exclaimed. Anxiety about Professor Fortescue now made a gloomy background to the responsibilities of Hadria's present life. Valeria's occasional visits were its bright spots. She looked forward to them, with pathetic eagerness.
There, my lords," said he, as he handed it to the bench, "there's his pocket-book, with plenty of notes in it from many a one well known, Maurice Mulcahy among the rest, and you'll soon see who it was first tempted Fortescue to ruin, and who paid the money for doing it." A burst of horror and astonishment broke from the assembled crowd as Darby spoke.
"Ellen where is Ellen?" said several voices, as they seated themselves round the hospitable board, and observed her place was vacant; and Sir George Wilmot eagerly joined the inquiry. "She will join us shortly, Sir George," replied Mrs. Hamilton, and turning to a servant near her, desired him to let Miss Fortescue know tea was ready. "I will go, madam.
"In that case it is a bargain," I said, "for I can warrant him sound." "All right, sir. I'll send one of the grooms over to your place for him to-morrow." Shortly afterward I fell in with Keyworth, and as a matter of course we talked about Mr. Fortescue. "Do you know anything about him?" I asked. "Not much. I believe he is rich and respectable." "That is pretty evident, I think." "I am not sure.
There had not been a man missing in the whole month of February. But one day Lawrence, the gentleman-ranker, was reported missing. The Colonel had no illusions concerning broken men and said so to Mrs. Fortescue. "The fellow has deserted that's the way most of the broken men end. He was in the aviation field yesterday and his going away was not premeditated, as he did not ask for leave.
When the guests were gone and Anita was lying wide awake in her little white bed, thinking of Broussard, Colonel Fortescue, in the pride of his heart, was telling Mrs. Fortescue about it, as he smoked his last cigar in his office. "It was great!" said the Colonel. "The child knew her subject wonderfully.
For several generations, and for two centuries after Sir John Fortescue wrote the 'De Laudibus, the Inns-of-Court man was more busied in learning to sing than in learning to argue a law cause, more desirous to fence with a sword than to fence with logic.
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