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"If you come to the Settlement between four and five on Friday week," he said, "inquiries will be made." The man stepped back into the snow with a not ungraceful gesture as of apology; he had frosty silver hair, and his lean face, though in shadow, seemed to wear something like a smile. As Vernon-Smith stepped briskly into the street, the man stooped down as if to do up his bootlace.
It is worthy the pen of the most profound Christian philosopher. Ed. The more extensive our inquiries are into the wonders of creation, the more deeply will our souls be humbled. The answer to the inquiry, "What is man?" can then, and only then, be made in the language of Isaiah, "Nothing vanity a drop of a bucket the small dust of the balance," 40:15. Ed.
Then after full inquiries it was decided that she should have her will, and follow out her medical course of study, provided she could find a satisfactory person to board with. She proposed, and her mother consented, that the two Miss Rays should be her chaperons, of course with liberal payment.
Then she spoke from her new habitation nine hundred miles away, in these meagre words: 'Are settled at the address given. Can now attend to any inquiry about the building. The pointed implication that she could attend to inquiries about nothing else, breathed of the veritable Paula so distinctly that he could forgive its sauciness. His reply was soon despatched:
Next morning, however, Madelon had a cold, a pane of glass was found in fragments on the gravel walk beneath the window, a skull was discovered, lying among the long grass on the lawn; one can fancy the exclamations, the inquiries, the commotion.
And while she was gone, we will briefly go back and state what had been hitherto the results of Mr Slope's meditations on his scheme of matrimony. His inquiries as to the widow's income had at any rate been so far successful as to induce him to determine to go on with the speculation. As regarded Mr Harding, he had also resolved to do what he could without injury to himself.
"I promise," I answered presently. "That will do," said Mr. Strong, as he led the way to the door. I need not dwell upon the further events of that evening, inasmuch as they were almost a repetition of those of the previous night. Mrs. Strong received me kindly in her faded fashion, and, after a few inquiries about the trial, sought refuge in her favourite topic of the lost Tribes.
Possibly Violet wants to make some inquiries concerning her twin brother, how he behaves, and if he has developed any rash spirit calculated to get him into trouble. I remember telling her that if she felt anxious just to drop me a line, and I'd answer." Frank unblushingly took the envelope from the extended fingers of Will. "Open it!" commanded Bluff. "You'll have to excuse me, fellows.
P.M. Several of us were a little time ago called out one by one to answer inquiries with regard to our offences. We replied we could not comply with military requisitions. P.D., being last, was asked if he would die first, and replied promptly but mildly, Yes.
That evening when, as usual, the tutor looked in to say good night to his ward, Roger said rather gloomily "I suppose you object to my going to London?" "On the contrary, I rather envy you." "Of course you understand I am going up to make inquiries?" "Naturally. With Captain Oliphant's assistance?" "No. I'm not inclined to tell him anything at present.
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