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"They told me it was a sure thing and I wouldn't be in this mess if I hadn't thought it was.... You boys talk it over between you. I'm going to ask Mr. Curry if he wants to buy a horse. He can have him for half what he cost me." Hopwood turned up his collar and departed; the two conspirators listened until his footsteps died away down the row of stables.
'This affair of the child in Rosario is probably a mare's nest, said Mr. Purvis in his hopeless way, as he closed his pocket-book and put a strap round it. 'Well, at least find out all you can about him, said Peter, as Hopwood appeared with coffee, and Ross and Toffy joined them and sat down under the paraiso trees.
In his search for clues he had even taken the hint from Merriman's newspaper and bought a copy of The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, but though he saw that this clever story might easily have inspired the crime, he could find from it no help towards its solution. He had also paid a flying visit to the manager of the Hopwood Manufacturing Company in Sheffield, where Coburn had been employed.
What I mean is that they've had that seat for nearly eight years and now to be turned out! But I assure you, Paul, from what Linda Maxse said to me yesterday I believe she intends that, I do indeed. She thinks Miss Beats and Miss Hopwood will get used to sitting somewhere else after two Sundays. 'I'm sure they won't mind poor old things, she said only yesterday. 'Poor old things. Just fancy!
While Dee took no part in the affair except that he "sharply reproved and straitly examined" Hartley, he lent Mr. Hopwood, the justice of the peace before whom Hartley was brought, his copy of the book of Wierus, then the collections of exorcisms known as the Flagellum Dæmonum and the Fustis Dæmonum, and finally the famous Malleus Maleficarum.
If I got to fooling with them speed powders I might give him too much and have him climbing a tree on the way to the post.... Cheese it! Here comes the boss!" Hopwood entered, shaking the water from the brim of his hat, his lower lip sagging and an angry light in his eye. "Well," asked the Kid from the doorway, "what did Curry say?" "Umph!" grunted the fat man, disgustedly.
Jockey Gillis bowed and saluted. "Judges, can I go now?" said he. "Yes," said the presiding judge, "and don't come back. You're warned off, understand?" "Judges," whined Jockey Gillis, "I ain't done a thing wrong. That old horse, he " "Git!" said the presiding judge. "Now where is that man Hopwood? If he bet much money on this race " The Bald-faced Kid was waiting at the paddock gate.
Shapcott gave bail for me; but I was taken into his Family, and treated with the most Loving Kindness, till the fearful intelligence came that I, with two hundred other Convicts, had been "Taken up" for Transportation by Sir Basil Hopwood, a rich Merchant and Alderman of London, who paid a certain Sum a head for us to the King's Government for taking us to America, where he might make what profit he pleased, by selling our wretched Carcasses to be Slaves to the Planters.
In the main he has relied on his own cleverness to delight our ears for two hours with brilliant conversation. There is, it should be noted, in conclusion, nothing essentially American about either of these young authors. Both Mr. Hopwood and Mr. Moeller might have written for the foreign stage. Several of Mr.
In Devonshire and Wales the last sign of him in his purity was perhaps when Captain Hopwood hunted a small pack of hounds very similar in character on the fitch or pole-cat; the modus operandi being to find the foraging grounds of the animal, and then on a line that might be two days old hunt him to his lair, often enough ten or twelve miles off.
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