United States or New Zealand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !


Macrea's house lay next to Prout's, King's next to Macrea's, and Hartopp's beyond that again. Carefully locked doors divided house from house, but each house, in its internal arrangements the College had originally been a terrace of twelve large houses was a replica of the next; one straight roof covering all.

More than that, she wished to face him in company with a man not of her sort, even as he Drayton was escorting a woman whose lane of living did not rightly cross his. The coincidence of Natica's means-to-an-end being the Hartopp's husband, was simply a gift of fate; an opportunity of administering poetic justice, which could not be denied.

But the latter had dropped such harsh expressions, that bad as the charge might really be, all in Mr. Hartopp's employment probably deemed it worse, if possible, than it really was. And wretch indeed must be the man by whom the Mayor had been confessedly taken in, and whom the Mayor had indignantly given up to the reproaches of his own conscience.

I chuckled despite me, as I put in my mean little hack. "I mean the Hartopp's husband," she explained. "There is," I said. "'Boiler-plate' Hartopp. His given name is James, and he prize-fights fair to middling." All this wasn't quite good billiards, but we'd begun wrong that night, and we might as well keep it up, thought I. Natica Drayton was tapping her foot upon the fender. "H'm," she mused.

Laugh; darling, let me fancy I see you laughing; but don't fret, don't fancy I desert you. Do try and get well, quite, quite well; I ask it of you on my knees." The letter and the bag were taken over at sunrise to Mr. Hartopp's villa. Mr. Hartopp was an early man.

He remembered what he himself had said when the Sumao Bridge went out in the big cyclone by the sea; and most he remembered poor Hartopp's face three weeks later, when the shame had marked it. His bridge was twice the size of Hartopp's, and it carried the Findlayson truss as well as the new pier-shoe the Findlayson bolted shoe. There were no excuses in his service.

"Extraordinary! Most extraordinary! However, each house has its traditions, with which I would not for the world interfere. We have a prejudice in favor of washing. Go on, Beetle from 'jugurtha tamen' and, if you can, avoid the more flagrant forms of guessing." Prout's house was furious because Macrea's and Hartopp's houses joined King's to insult them.

An' he says, "Bessie," says he them was his last words "you'll mek a shift to manage the farm, if Sir Christifer 'ull let you stay on." 'Pooh, pooh! said Sir Christopher, Mrs. Hartopp's sobs having interrupted her pleadings, 'now listen to me, and try to understand a little common sense. You are about as able to manage the farm as your best milch cow.

Hartopp yonder, with the bird on her head bird of paradise, I believe; Williams says birds of that kind never rest. That bird is an exception it has rested on Mrs. Hartopp's head for hours together, every evening since we have been in town." "Significant of your connubial felicity, Mr. Hartopp." "May it be so of Anna Maria' s.

For I forgot all about the stop-watch now and then, while I learned the truth of the Hartopp's caution that "Boiler-plate" grew rough after he'd been drinking a bit. I knew that Jack had been a pretty fair boxer at the university, but, after I had called time for the first round, the thing was to all intents and purposes a genuine fight, and he was all in several times over.