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Thou hast a gallant way with thee, and a noble art nobly born?" "We are of the tail of the nobility, good your Majesty. My father is a baronet one of the smaller lords by knight service Sir Richard Hendon of Hendon Hall, by Monk's Holm in Kent." "The name has escaped my memory. Go on tell me thy story."
Then, taking off his hat, he came towards him and said politely, "It was very kind of you to help the girls down." "This is Herr Holm, engineer and Egyptian," said Merle, "and this is father." "I hear we are neighbours," said Uthoug. "We're just going to have tea, so if you have nothing better to do, perhaps you will join us."
Then he nodded, said, "Good-bye hope we shall meet again," and walked off, his boots creaking slightly as he went. His easy manners, his gait, the tone of his voice, all seemed to irritate and humiliate Peer. Never mind just let him wait! Days passed, and weeks. Peer soon found another object to work for than getting the better of Ferdinand Holm.
Oh, this is the devil!" Lewis held his peace. He had forgotten the solidity of Marker's reputation. "What's the chances of the place?" Thwaite was asking. "I know your numbers and all that, but are they anything like prepared?" "I don't know," said Holm miserably. "They might get on all right, but everybody is pretty slack just now.
During a long visit at Holm Lacy in Herefordshire, he amused his leisure by copying from Vandyck, in crayons, a head of Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, which was still preserved there many years afterwards, and is said to have possessed considerable merit. For an account of Pope's skill in painting fans, see vol. I. page 201 of this work.
Mr. Holm has asked me to sing at his concert, and I should like to help him, if the school trustees do not object." "Why should they, Miss Wilton?" "Well, some people, you know, are so peculiar." "I assure you they will not care that is, if it will not interfere with your school duties." "As to that, not a moment. I need no rehearsals as I am used to that is I you see, I will sing some old song."
The sea, whether it lay idle or seethed with anger, continually filled his head with the humming of the world "over yonder," with a vague, mysterious song of happiness. One day, as he was on his way to the harbor, he met old thatcher Holm from Stone Farm.
They throw their nets out for sums like that, and one day they sent an agent to see me. Ten thousand was just enough for the first instalment, and now they have taken the hotel over again. Out of compassion, they let me keep this trash here." He suddenly turned his face away and wept; and then his wife came swiftly up to him. Holm drew Pelle away.
He smiled, and was quoting something about "love casting out fear," when he suddenly corrected himself, and grew silent. In that silence they swept on to the gates of Kingcombe Holm.
Hence the eye ranged over the northern ocean, while to the eastward appeared the isle of Noss, with the rocky Holm of Noss beyond, the abode of numberless sea-fowl, and to be reached by a rope-way cradle over a broad chasm of fearful depth.
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