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All this time the quality in the tent on the lawn were getting on swimmingly that is, if champagne without restriction can enable quality folk to swim. Sir Harkaway Gorse proposed the health of Miss Thorne, and likened her to a blood race-horse, always in condition and not to be tired down by any amount of work. Mr.
Jim Harkaway, who failed at playing the same game I played and won, said to me with a sneer one day: "You certainly do know how to get a dollar's worth of notoriety out of a dollar's worth of advertising." "If I only knew that, Jim," said I, "I'd have been long ago where you're bound for. The trick is to get it back ten for one.
In "London Assurance" he portrayed the important part of Grace Harkaway, and a very charming and presentable young lady he made. But I must not forget to mention that his very laudable ambition to obtain histrionic honours was at the outset very nearly nipped in the bud.
"I was anxious to spare him," said Harkaway, in conclusion, "for although he has always been false, treacherous, and cruel, I could not forget that he was a fellow-countryman, and that we were boys together. I would have returned good for evil, he refused it; I now mean to try evil for evil." The men applauded this to the echo.
When Harkaway, Jefferson, and Harvey arrived there, they were ushered into the presence of the magician by a negro fancifully attired, wearing silver bands round his wrists and ankles, from which dangled chains with small bells attached.
"See after the man who threw this letter in," exclaimed Harkaway. "Come with me come, come immediately!" And with this somewhat wild exhortation, he tottered out of the room, followed by Dick. Everybody arose from the table in confusion. Dismay, alarm, was depicted in every face. "What can it be?" ejaculated Mrs. Harkaway. "Oh, Mr. Jefferson, go and see, and bring me the news." "I will.
"It is, though, and it is in English, I should say, too." "Yes." "Can't you read it?" "No." "Strange. Yet you are English." "Yes." "Well, I have some English friends here to whom I will show it, and " Hunston broke in impatiently at this. "English here!" he exclaimed. "Where do they live?" "At the villa " "What, the Harkaway family, do you mean?" "Yes." "And you would take it there?" "Why not? Mr.
Words cannot describe the trouble of the Harkaway family at the loss of young Jack and his stout-hearted comrade, Harry Girdwood. At first their indignation had been so great, that their first impulse was to use violent means to effect the recovery of the boys. But the first person to oppose this was Jack Harkaway himself.
The waiting maid in reply only cocked her chin haughtily and moved away. "You are proud, Marietta, to-night," said Hunston. She turned upon hearing her name mentioned. "I do not know you, sir." "But you see I know you, Marietta, and what is more, if you were to ask your master Mr. Harkaway or Mrs. Harkaway about their friend Saville, I dare say they would not say any thing very bad about him."
Sunday and Monday, who had been keeping it up in the kitchen, were called and acquainted with the state of affairs. "What, Massa Petrus," said Sunday in surprise, "what you do here? Am you got dat black rascal pirate with you?" "No; the pirate chief is dead. You will find his bones on the island Magic Island, as young Jack Harkaway named it. Yes, my revenge is complete.
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