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"She that is, the person that warned me let me down from the window upon the head of the great gurgoyle, and from thence I scrambled down by the vines on the wall, ran through the court without being seen by the Squires and grooms, and found my way to the bridge, where happily I met John Ingram, who brought me hither." "She?" repeated Gaston, with a sly look in his black eyes.
'He was a sure ace every time. He'll be glad to know he was such a success. You must tell him, Miss Featherstone. 'Now I won't have poor Mr. Gurgoyle made fun of, said Mrs. Featherstone, but with a considerable return of amiability. 'People always tell me that with all his plainness he's the most amusing young man in town, though I confess I never could see any signs of it myself.
There is young Lord Gurgoyle, an Englishman like yourself, you see what the devil is he staring at like that?" From behind a portiere which fell across the end of the room came a woman, tall, pale, and with a peculiar air of distinction about her. Perhaps it was her very unusual pallor which so distinguished her for there was nothing absolutely fine or handsome about the countenance.
Leonard stood still, his face turned towards the greenest of the meadows, and the river where it dashed over the wheel of a mill. 'Have you seen it again? asked Ethel, as she stood by him, and watched his eye. 'No. I am rather glad to see it first from so far off, he answered, 'I mean to walk over some day. 'Ethel, called Gertrude, 'is this your gurgoyle?
She's done nothing in that way for him. Mrs. Featherstone, although aware that the verdict on the absent Gurgoyle was far from being a just one, was not altogether above being pleased by it, and showed it by a manner many degrees more thawed than that she had originally prescribed to herself in dealing with this very ineligible young actor. 'Mr.
Hasn't everybody in the family turned stupid, and of no use, as soon at they went and fell in love! Only good old Ethel here has too much sense, and that's what makes her such a dear old gurgoyle. And Harry he is twice the fun after he comes home, before he gets his fit of love. And all the story books that begin pleasantly, the instant that love gets in, they are just alike so stupid!
The voices were all in unison, and the tune they sang was one which my father had taught Yram to sing; but he could not catch the words. As soon as the singing began, a procession, headed by the venerable Dr. Gurgoyle, President of the Musical Banks of the province, began to issue from the robing-room, and move towards the middle of the apse.
She requested Oak to get the churchwardens to turn the leadwork at the mouth of the gurgoyle that hung gaping down upon them, that by this means the stream might be directed sideways, and a repetition of the accident prevented.
"We have only to lay on the cement a little thicker at one side, and slope the surface down to the other, where a hole through the wall, with a pipe in it, would let the water off." "I know!" cried Willie. "That's what they called a gurgoyle!" "I don't know anything about that," said the carpenter; "I know it will carry off the water." "To be sure," said Willie. "It's capital."
Gurgoyle, President of the Musical Banks for the Province of Sunch'ston. 8vo, 16 pp. 6d. Other titles ran "Counsels of Imperfection." 8vo, 20 pp. 6d. "Hygiene; or, How to Diagnose your Doctor. 8vo, 10 pp. 3d. "The Physics of Vicarious Existence," by Dr. Gurgoyle, President of the Musical Banks for the Province of Sunch'ston. 8vo, 20 pp. 6d.
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