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This is getting fairly tiresome." "You should have thought of that before you started that business," the other one reminded him. "It's rather late now to be finding out the flaws in your plans." The sneering smile on Mr. Bryce's face broadened into a grin of triumph. "Didn't you ever hear the proverb about glass-houses and the people who live in them?" he enquired blandly.
He looked fondly on his glass-houses, and despairingly on his Friths, Goodalls, and Bouguereaus, and he wondered if they would look as well in the new rooms as in the old, and what sum they would realise if he were to include them in the auction; for an auction was necessary. Mr.
Then he stood and looked at it for a moment, and the sight of the damage roused up a feeling of anger in him, for he turned sharply. "Here, you be off!" he said, advancing on the boy with the cane under his arm. For answer the boy snatched the cane away. "What do you say?" he cried haughtily. "I say you be off out of my glass-houses, Master Philip. I won't have you here, and so I tell you."
We are going home some day, when Jack has made his fortune, and until then my brother-in-law rents the Castle from us, and we go over and stay with him once or twice in the year. Esmeralda is mistress of Knock, and is having it put in such terrible order that we can hardly recognise the dear old tumbledown place. There is not a single broken pane in the glass-houses!"
Too many of those who might have decided against him had delicate glass-houses of their own to care for, and it would likely prove a treacherous missile that would aim at the well-propped reputation of Doctor Campbell. I had my own private opinion about him, which never prevented me from openly admiring his tactics, from enjoying his company, and, in a sense, from coveting his attentions.
"Yes," said Mrs Mostyn, who was thinking of the poor fellow lying at the bothy in darkness. "And with all those glass-houses and their valuable contents, a day's neglect is never recovered." "No, James Ellis." "The men, too, want some one over them whom they must obey." "Of course of course, Ellis. And you think Daniel Barnett is quite equal to the duties?" "Oh, yes, ma'am.
Horlock and her dogs, the forge, the stile, the various cottages, the long fields full of green wheat, and, far away, the carriages passing like insects along the road under the Downs; then on the right were the back gardens of the cottages, a large inscription announcing the different branches of the grocery business, a few fields with cows leaning their muzzles over the rough palings, some more cottages, a barn, and then the magnificent five acres of the Manor House, rich with glass-houses, and beautiful in a cloud of trees.
All you have to do is to pet her orchids, and make the glass-houses spick and span, keep the roses blooming, and there, I needn't preach to you, Daniel, my lad; you're as good a gardener as poor John Grange, and your bread is buttered on both sides for life." "Not quite, sir," cried the young man quietly. "All right; I know what you mean." "Then you consent, sir?" "Oh, no, I don't.
His villa was at Clapham, not a showy but a solid edifice, with lodge, lawn, and gardens chiefly notable for what is technically called glass viz. a range of glass-houses on the most improved principles, the heaviest pines, the earliest strawberries. "I'm no judge of flowers," quoth Mr. Fossett, meekly. "Give me a plain lawn, provided it be close-shaven.
Neither tradition nor our projector's account of the matter perfectly satisfy us why this navigation was neglected..... We must therefore conclude that the numerous works and glass-houses upon the Stour, and in the neighbourhood of Stourbridge, did not then exist, A.D. 1666. ....The navigable communication which now connects Trent and Severn, and which runs in the course of Yarranton's project, is already of general use.... The canal since executed under the inspection of Mr.
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