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He made an effort, for a moment or two, to pursue and detect the woman who had been his friend; then the purpose of his coming gradually faded from his mind, and he stood with folded arms and absorbed eyes watching the other, the Mrs. Halliday on the sofa, setting about the fulfilment of a purple destiny. The play proceeded and Stephen did not move did not wince. When Mrs.
All eyes were turned in the direction he pointed, where in a magnificent arch of shifting colors the bow of promise curved over the field. "It's our rainbow," shouted Tom. "We saw it first." "Come off, you dubs," sang out Halliday. "Don't you see that it's over our goal?" "Sure," retorted Tom. "That's to show us where we've got to go." "It is, eh?" said Halliday grimly.
They bought land, mortgages, farms, speculative stocks, fine clothes, horses, and various other things, paid down the bonus, and made themselves liable for the rest at ten days. Presently the sober second thought came, and Halliday noticed that a ghastly anxiety was beginning to show up in a good many faces. Again he was puzzled, and didn't know what to make of it.
It is only a few months since you came home from school; and I fancied that you would have stopped with me for years before you thought of settling." Miss Halliday made a wry face. "Dear mamma," she said, "I don't want to 'settle. That is what one's housemaid says, isn't it, when she talks of leaving service and marrying some young man from the baker's or the grocer's?
Starting up, I found that Halliday had dropped off to sleep by my side. The raft had drifted to some distance from the ship, which was, however, still burning, the glare falling on the figures of my companions in misfortune, some lying down, others sleeping in sitting postures. I looked around towards the spot where the boatswain's mate and his associates had been; they were not there.
Jim needs guidance for a time and it's possible his Canadian friends encourage his un-English idiosyncrasies. The girl has some beauty; I would sooner she did not stay long. If Jim could be advised " Evelyn smiled. "I cannot advise him. Besides, he's very staunch and owes these people much." "Oh, well," said Mrs. Halliday.
Day after day we continued to travel southward further and further from home, as it seemed to us. Whenever we could meet, Halliday, Ben, and I not trusting to the sheikh's promises, of whose fickleness we had many proofs eagerly discussed the possibility of escaping.
The shore before us cannot be on the border of the great Desert of Sahara." "I cannot make it out," he answered. "Still I am pretty certain as to our latitude. The country, however, is but little known, and we may have been thrown on a more fertile region than was supposed to exist." "I hope, then, that we shall be able to find some food," said Halliday; "I am terribly hungry and thirsty.
She does not even know that she has any claim to the amount in question." "Don't be too sure of that. Or even supposing she knows nothing, do you think her friends are as ignorant as she is? Do you think me such a very bad man of business as to remain all this time unaware of the fact that my stepdaughter, Charlotte Halliday, is next of kin to the Rev.
No, Hawkehurst, depend upon it, we've nothing to fear in that quarter. The person we have to fear is that precious brother of mine." "You talked the other day about driving a bargain with him," I said; "I didn't quite understand your meaning. The fortune can only be claimed by Char Miss Halliday, and your brother has no legal authority to dispose of her money."
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