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See, the soldiers are moving. They're going to ride out to meet him." She made a gesture towards the far shore where Kaid's men were saddling their horses, and to Nahoum's and Kaid's dahabiehs, where there was a great stir. "There's one from Hamley will meet them first," Soolsby said, and pointed to where Hylda, in the desert, was riding towards the camels coming out of the south.
But, even at the crest of the wave of temptation, words that he had heard one night in Hamley, that last night of all, flashed into his mind the words of old Luke Claridge's prayer, "And if a viper fasten on his hand, O Lord " Suddenly he paused. That scene in the old Meetinghouse swam before his eyes, got into his brain.
'Now I won't have you classing Roger Hamley and Mr. Preston together in the same sentence. One was as much too bad for me, as the other is too good. Now I hope that maxi in the garden is the juste milieu, I'm that myself, for I don't think I'm vicious, and I know I'm not virtuous. 'Do you really like him enough to marry him? asked Molly earnestly. 'Do think, Cynthia.
In a lecture before the Royal United Service Institution in London, May 16, 1884, Lieut.-General Sir Edward Hamley, of the British Army, discussed the Central Asian question before an audience comprising such Indian experts as Sir Henry Rawlinson, Lord Napier of Magdala, and Mr. Charles Marvin, and many distinguished officers, including Lord Chelmsford, Sir F. Haines, and Colonel Malleson.
"And you, sir?" "David Claridge." "Of ?" "Of Hamley." "Mr. Claridge of Hamley. Mr. Claridge, I am glad to meet you." They shook hands. "Been here long, Mr. Claridge?" "A few months only." "Queer place gilt-edged dust-bin; get anything you like here, from a fresh gutter-snipe to old Haroun-al-Raschid. It's the biggest jack-pot on earth. Barnum's the man for this place P. T. Barnum.
The burning words with which General Hamley closed his lecture one year ago are singularly true to-day, and form a fitting termination to this sketch: "I do not undervalue the many influences which will always oppose any policy entailing expense.
Have you not favoured his suit to Cynthia since then, on the understanding gathered from that conversation that he stood a good chance of inheriting Hamley? 'I suppose I did, said she, sulkily. 'And if I did, I can't see any harm in it, that I should be questioned as if I were in a witness-box. He was in love with Cynthia long before that conversation, and she liked him so much.
And if God will give me grace, he shall never hear a cross word from me never. He shan't be afeard of me. Do you know now how I loved you my boy my boy? Still, it was not for Molly to talk of this doubt of hers just then; rather to dwell on the probable graces and charms of the little Roger Stephen Osborne Hamley.
And this from the proud Lady Cumnor; and the object of it Roger Hamley, whom she had all but turned out of her drawing-room two years ago for calling at an untimely hour; and whom Cynthia had turned out of her heart. Mrs. Gibson was surprised, and could only murmur out that she was sure Mr. Gibson would do all that her ladyship wished. 'Thank you.
Osborne Hamley. Why, Molly, you were always talking of his brother it was Roger this, and Roger that I can't think how it was you so seldom mentioned this young man. 'I did not know I had mentioned Mr. Roger Hamley so often, said Molly, blushing a little. 'But I saw much more of him he was more at home. 'Well, well! It's all right, my dear. I daresay he suits you best.
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