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When the parchment was unrolled, she began to read: "In the name of God, amen. This indenture of agreement, looking to union in the holy bonds of marriage between the Right Honorable Lord James Stanley of the first part, and Mistress Dorothy Vernon of Haddon of the second part " She read no farther.
I say I should love to tell you about all those joyous happenings, but after all I fear I should shrink from doing so in detail, for the feelings and sayings of our own hearts are sacred to us. It is much easier to tell of the love affairs of others. A fortnight or three weeks passed quietly in Haddon Hall.
The Haddon school board didn't meet this week and the director of number Twelve was away, and it was so late last night that I couldn't get home." "Oh, you've always got a good excuse. I bet you didn't get a school after all."
In ill-health or convalescence, or worry or tribulation, the ordinary mind does not turn to Milton or Shakespeare, or even to the sermons of Charles Haddon Spurgeon. There are few classics that will stand the test of a cold in the head, or a fit of depression, or a worrying husband, or a minor tragedy. Here the writer of "light fiction" stands firm.
I wondered whether, after all, the story of the kidnapping of Haddon might not be a figment of her brain, simply an hallucination due to the drug. "They?" inquired Kennedy, observing her narrowly. "Who?" "I can't tell. I don't know. Why did I come? Why did I come?" She was reaching again for the snuff-box, but Kennedy restrained her.
I believe that if an audience of the best musicians could be assembled in a small room and this work could be played to them, they could not fail to be impressed with its beauties. I am now studying a new concerto by Haddon Wood, which you see in manuscript there on the piano; it is one I find very beautiful."
He stopped short in confusion on beholding Christina Shine, and Chris blushed warmly in answering his curt 'Good evening. 'I called to see Dick 'bout that tin dish, he said, beating his leg with his hat in an obvious effort to appear at his ease. Mrs. Haddon glanced sharply from Harry to Chris and conceived a new interest. 'I will go to Dickie, said Chris, taking the key from the widow. Mrs.
HAM, with wise forethought, carefully locked the door and pocketed the key after disposing of the lads; and this was well, for Dick Haddon, fully appreciating the possibilities of the situation, was already plotting plotting with every faculty of an active and inventive mind. The master faced his prisoners, and stood musing over them like a pensive but kindly cormorant. Mr.
The tapestries of Haddon Hall are among the most beautiful in England, and the picture upon which the sun's rays fell was that of a lover kneeling at the feet of his mistress. Madge and I passed and repassed the illumined scene, and while it was softly fading into shadow a great flood of tender love for the girl whose soft hand I held swept over my heart. It was the noblest motive I had ever felt.
That was to have been their last venture together, and Shine had intended to induce Mrs. Haddon to marry him, and then to take her away somewhere where he was unknown, and where it would have been possible to sell the gold in small parcels without exciting suspicion.
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