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On a rickety table in the window was his desk, and a portfolio full of blue foolscap, but he had done what he could to make the place habitable; his Oxford pictures were on the walls Hoffman's 'Christ speaking to the Woman taken in Adultery, hanging over the mantelpiece it had always been a favourite of his.
"It is lucky that I am my own employer, or I might run the risk of being discharged. I am afraid the excuse that I was at Mrs. Hoffman's fashionable party would not be thought sufficient. I guess I won't have time to stop to shave this morning." "You haven't got anything to shave," said Jimmy. "Don't be envious, Jimmy. I counted several hairs this morning. Well, Phil, are you ready to go with me?
His wife trimmed his beard in the manner most becoming to the shape of his head, the poise of his neck and evenly formed shoulders. He wore his hair full long and it curled about his neck in a deep blond wave. He might have posed for the model of Hoffman's famous picture of Christ. His eyes, a clear blue, were the finest feature of his personality.
"Let us go to Hoffman's café," said Mr. Goulden. "Hurry! the papers will go there, and if we wait we shall not be able to get in." As we crossed the square we heard some one running behind us, and the clear, strong voice of Margarot, saying: "They have come, I have them." All the half-pay officers were following him, and as the moon was shining we could see they were coming at a great pace.
We must have him back, and I will beat him so that he will not dare to run away again." The padrone would have been still more incensed could he have looked into Mrs. Hoffman's room and seen the little fiddler the center of a merry group, his brown face radiant with smiles as he swept the chords of his violin. It was well for Phil that he could not see him.
Conspiracy of the Irish Catholics to prevent a Parade of Orangemen. Forbidden by the City Authorities. Indignation of the People. Meeting in the Produce Exchange. Governor Hoffman's Proclamation. Morning of the 12th. The Orangemen at Lamartine Hall. Attack on the Armories. The Harpers threatened. Exciting Scenes around Lamartine Hall and at Police Head- quarters. Hibernia Hall cleared.
Hoffman's party will long be remembered as the most brilliant of the season." "I did not know you had so much talent for reporting, Paul," said his mother. "You forgot one thing, however." "What is that?" "You said nothing of yourself." "I was too modest, mother. However, if you insist upon it, I will do so. Anything at all to please you."
In the volume which I first published, I had, like Mus us, but in my own manner, related old stories, which I had heard as a child. The volume concluded with one which was original, and which seemed to have given the greatest pleasure, although it bore a tolerably near affinity to a story of Hoffman's.
These pleasant little abodes, in which the greatest cleanliness is everywhere observable, are all surrounded by cultivated gardens. In the evening, they are lighted by the oily nuts of the taper-tree, fastened in rows on splinters. Mr. Hoffman's visit to the house of his friend Maititi, excited the greatest joy.
Nevertheless she was real and human, for the pink deepened in her cheeks as Hoffman's hat flew from his head, and she recognized the civility with a grave little curtsy. "You have come to see the dairy," she said in quaintly accurate English; "I will show you the way." "If you please," said Hoffman, gaily, "but " "But what?" she said, facing him suddenly with absolutely astonished eyes.
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