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He crossed the room in a stride, clicked the room into darkness, gripped Grahams arm and pointed to the mirror. "Even as we turned away," he said. Graham saw his index finger, black and colossal, above the mirrored Council House. For a moment he did not understand. And then he perceived that the flagstaff that had carried the white banner was bare. "Do you mean ?" he began.

When the Whigs terrified by the defeat and expecting Dundee at Stirling with the clans and the cavaliers of the Lowlands heard of his fall, their sorrow was changed into rejoicing. The cause of King James was mortally wounded by the death of "the glory of the Grahams," who alone could lead and keep together a Highland host.

But how will you go about to get the information we now need?" "First, I would look in the general residence directory to find out where the Grahams live," Katherine replied. "Yes, that is perhaps the best move to make first. But the chances are you will get nothing there. Can you tell me why?" "Because there are probably few summer cottages within the city limits," Hazel volunteered.

I com'd home, saw my wife, and then went out again to jine the Grahams for another spell at the diggin's; then I come home again for another spell wi' the missus, an' so I kep' goin' and comin', year by year, till now. "Tom was a lucky digger. He resolved to quit for good and all, and return to settle in England.

Lettice was in London that autumn, on a visit to the Grahams; and perhaps something which she contrived to say to her brother induced him to write and tell his father that briefs were coming in at last, and that he hoped to be able to dispense with further remittances from home. Mr. Campion rejoiced in this assurance as though it implied that Sydney had made his fortune.

He had not been there more than half-an-hour, when, moving with the crowd from one room to another, he suddenly came face to face with Lettice and the Grahams. All of them were taken by surprise, and there was a little constraint in their greeting.

"They have been so kind. But don't you wait, Laura, unless you like. I dare say you have other things to do." "Oh no, I am not busy this morning: besides, it is too late to do anything now before lunch." And she also sat down again. The Grahams came up and immediately began to explain in subdued tones about Mr.

Groups of beauties like the Moncrieffes, Grahams, Conynghams, de Moleynses, Lady Mary Mills, Lady Randolph Churchill, Mrs. Arthur Sassoon, Lady Dalhousie, Lady March, Lady Londonderry and Lady de Grey were to be seen in the salons of the 'eighties.

His first feeling was rapture: if what he had done for the Grahams had brought so much happiness, both to them and himself, would it not be increased ten-fold now when owner of such wealth?

'This is Bourhill, my girl; and whatever ambitions your father may have had in later years, it was once his one desire to buy it back to the Grahams. Do you like the place? 'Yes, uncle; but it is very desolate it makes me sad. 'It will not be long so, he said; and, drawing himself together with a quick shiver, he bade the driver turn the horses' heads.

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