Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 7, 2025
Houseman's head-quarters, and messages were coming and going all day, on matters connected with the defence. Just at sunset, up rattled a post-chaise, and the clerk got out and came haggard and bloodshot before his employer. "The witness has disappeared, sir. Left home last Tuesday, with her child, and has never been seen nor heard of since." Here was a terrible blow.
One does not bring up girls to toss them down into the first houseman's place that opens its doors, and one does not manage an estate for forty years only to hand the whole over to the first one who makes a fool of the girl. My daughter made herself ridiculous until she was allowed to marry a vagabond.
The Student, who had diverged from the path at Houseman's direction, now paused at a place where the matted bushes seemed to forbid any farther progress; and said, for the first time breaking the silence, "We cannot proceed; shall this be the place of our conference?" "No," said Houseman, "we had better pierce the bushes. I know the way, but will not lead it." "And wherefore?"
Let us in, and try what heavenly comfort there is in prayer." "Prayer! pooh! I am Richard Houseman!" "Lives there one man for whom prayer is unavailing?" "Out, canter, out! My pretty Jane! And she laid her head on my bosom, and looked up in my face, and so died!" "Come," said the curate, placing his hand on Houseman's arm, "come." But stay, don't bring in my name; you understand.
She had not looked at it a moment, when she uttered a loud cry, and pointed at its feet with quivering hand. With this she fell into violent hysterics, and was carried out of the room at Houseman's earnest entreaty. As soon as she was gone, Mr. Houseman, being freed from his fear that his client would commit herself irretrievably, recovered a show of composure, and his wits went keenly to work.
Nor to Walter was the scene without something more impressive and thrilling than its mere pathos alone. He, now standing beside the corpse of Houseman's child, was son to the man of whose murder Houseman had been suspected. The childless and the fatherless, might there be no retribution here?
"Gotta get acquainted with a guy, ain't you?" Then his wife, a thin, washed-out little woman, embarrassed the little clerk greatly by saying gravely: "Mr. Neal, you're a good man." Her eyes were on the little cripple. In the same vein was the comment of the office force at Fields, Jones & Houseman's on the occasion of Arnold's injury in the elevator accident, when Mr.
"That is in summer," pleaded Erica; "however, you have my secret, as you say, a thing which is no secret at home. We all think that Hund bears such a grudge against Rolf, for having got the houseman's place " "And for nothing else?" "That," continued Erica, "he would be glad to to " "To get rid of Rolf, and be a houseman, and get betrothed instead of him. Well: Hund is balked for this time.
So Madame Erlingsen was well pleased that Erica was betrothed; and she could only have been better satisfied if she had been married at once. For this marrying, however, the young people must wait. There was no house, or houseman's place, vacant for them at present. There was a prospect, however.
But even to the moment of his coming here he had thought of going to sea and becoming a captain; perhaps a pirate, and acquiring enormous riches; now he gave up first the riches, then the pirate, then the captain, then the mate; he paused at sailor, at the utmost boatswain; indeed, it was possible that he would not go to sea at all, but would take a houseman's place on his father's gard.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking