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Hooley may never again be able to get it so good." Ruth and Helen had told him about the old crazy man a hermit, perhaps and Mr. Hammond had given instructions that before the retaking of the scene was tried the island should be searched for the King of the Pipes. "Whoever, or whatever, he is," the producer said, "he's got to be looked after while we are making this picture.
Can't we let her stand as the camera has it?" "I believe it is a good shot," agreed Mr. Hammond. "We'll try it out to-night in the car." One end of the special car was arranged as a projection room. "If the Indians did not hide the wagon too much, that dash of the girl was certainly spectacular." "It was a peach," again declared the director.
Fastening them in the button-hole of his coat, he drew a small box from his pocket, and said: "I noticed last week, when Mr. Hammond was explaining the Basilidian tenets, you manifested some curiosity concerning their amulets and mythical stones.
There was no external peril menacing either the commonwealth or its humblest citizen; but the significance of the phrase was soon apparent. A caucus of prominent South Carolina leaders is said to have been held on October 25, at the residence of Senator Hammond.
The calling of the voices in Brockden Brown's novel of Wieland is awful; so is the picture of the Dweller of the Threshold, in Bulwer's Zanoni; but," he added, shaking his head gloomily, "there is something more horrible still than those." "Look here, Hammond," I rejoined, "let us drop this kind of talk, for Heaven's sake! We shall suffer for it, depend on it."
Captain Hammond took his post beside Miss Stuart's invalid couch, and made himself agreeable and entertaining to that young lady. Trixy's eyes gradually brightened, and her color came back; she held him a willing captive by her side all the evening through. Papa Stuart from his place at the whist table beamed paternal approval down the long room.
"We forgot all about how hot it was and hustled out on the reef right at the mouth of the lagoon. I had a coat on a stick, and I waved it for a signal, and Hammond set to work building a bonfire. He got a noble one blazing and then him and me stood and watched the schooner. "She was acting dreadful queer.
It would have made him still happier if he could have had the power of destroying Brackenhill utterly, of wiping it off the face of the earth, in case he could not find an heir who pleased him, for it troubled him to think that some man must have the land after him, whether he wished it or not. Godfrey Hammond had declared that no one could conceive the exquisite torments Mr.
Hammond sprang toward Grace, but instantly realizing that it would be folly to molest her, drew back, scowling savagely. Grace hung up the receiver and rang again. This time she called the bank, asking for the president. "Is this Mr. Furlow?" she said. "This is Grace Harlowe. I am at the office of Mr.
Hammond, a manufacturer, who had not been absent for nearly forty-five years; a Mr. Murray, a Scottish Episcopal minister, who every day accomplished the feat of reading through at least once all the London papers; a "growling person of the name of Dobson, who, when his asthma permitted, vented his spleen" upon both sides of politics; and Mr.
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