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Bastow very much, and I am quite sure that I shan't get so many whackings from him as I used to do from old Holbrook." "I fancy not, Mark," his father said with a smile. "I am not against wholesome discipline, but I think it can be carried too far; at any rate, I hope you will be just as obedient to Mr. Bastow as if he always had a cane on the table beside him."
I was much pleased with the late resolution awarding Franklin medals to the colored pupils of the grammar school; and I was still more pleased with the laudable project, originated by Josiah Holbrook, Esq., for the establishment of a colored Lyceum.
'I have told him nothing about the good fortune that has come to me, Nelly, she said; 'I have only written to him, begging him to return as quickly as possible, and he will be here to-morrow by the afternoon express. Mr. Holbrook is a great walker, and generally walks from Malsham here, by a shorter way than the high-road, across some fields and by the river-bank.
Still, this time the boy resolutely refused to confess that he had thrown a bit of paper that day, and went back to his seat with smarting hands and the stern words of his teacher ringing in his ears. What a heavy, bitter heart the poor boy carried out from the schoolroom that afternoon, he felt as though he almost hated every scholar there, quite hated Ellis Holbrook. Mr.
"Your knowledge of this man Holbrook." "What makes you suppose that I have any knowledge of him?" "The fact that he is a friend of Sir David Forster's. The house in which I found Marian belongs to Sir David, and was lent by him to Mr. Holbrook." "I do not know every friend of Forster's. He is a man who picks up his acquaintance in the highways and byways, and drops them when he is tired of them."
When a book about the literature of the eighteen-nineties was given by Mr. Holbrook Jackson to the world, I looked eagerly in the index for Soames, Enoch. It was as I feared: he was not there. But everybody else was. Many writers whom I had quite forgotten, or remembered but faintly, lived again for me, they and their work, in Mr. Holbrook Jackson's pages.
"Tell Howard and Kitty to be sure and come; they can put their visit a few weeks earlier as well as not. "Oh, by the way, if you have heard from Ellis Holbrook lately, you are singing 'Glory Hallelujah' by this time! "I am writing this in the counting-room, and am in a great hurry, though you wouldn't think it. Shall expect you by the third, certainly. "Yours, etc.,
I heartily wish that I could be of use to you in this matter; but there is very little chance of that; and, believe me, there is only one rational course open to you, which is, to forget Miss Nowell, or Mrs. Holbrook, with all possible assiduity." Gilbert smiled, a melancholy incredulous smile.
We've learned all we wish to know and you need have no fear, Chuan Kai, that any harm will come to you." The Oriental had shown clearly that the mining engineer had hit upon the truth; there was no necessity of wasting more time in Greensboro. A little later Teeny-bits and Wolcott Norris were in the Hamilton station greeting Pa Holbrook, who insisted on taking them home to supper.
You will be so good as to let me have a line immediately, at that address, if you obtain any tidings of Mrs. Holbrook." "I will do so." A hansom carried Gilbert Fenton to the Temple, without loss of time.
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