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"Of course I know you are extremely busy, but have you no assistant who could do it?" "What did you say her name is? Miss Inwood?" "Oh! And will the young lady translate the inscription at once if I send a copy of it to her by messenger?" "Thank you very much, Professor. I will send a messenger to Miss Inwood with a copy of the inscription. Good-by."
Having crossed thus at one fortunate stroke the frontiers of social observance, to which Clarice had but edged her way in the right of being a Thatcher Inwood, Peter ventured on Friday to suggest by telephone that since dinner must be late, the ladies should meet him at what he had taken pains to ascertain was the correct one of huge uptown hotels, for tea before starting. It was Mrs.
The next moment, close to the net, I saw a ball rebound in mid-air and empty space, and at the same instant, a score of feet away, Paul Tichlorne emitted a rainbow flash. It could not be he from whom the ball had rebounded, and with sickening dread I realized that Lloyd Inwood had come upon the scene.
No, she fell in love at first sight; fell in love with a young man whom she never before had seen, never again beheld and never forgot. Do you still follow me, Miss Inwood?" She made the slightest motion with her lips. "No," mused the Tracer of Lost Persons, "she never forgot him. I am not sure, but I think she sometimes dreamed of him. She dreamed of him awake, too.
"And I have told you I've five hundred that says it's not in that paper," Pentfield answered, at the same time throwing a heavy sack of dust on the table. "I am sorry to take your money," was the retort, as Inwood thrust the newspaper into Pentfield's hand. Pentfield saw, though he could not quite bring himself to believe.
This Lawrence Pentfield did at the end of two hours' plunging, when the dealer bit the end off a fresh cigar and struck a match as he announced that the bank was broken. Pentfield cashed in for forty thousand, shook hands with Nick Inwood, and stated that it was the last time he would ever play at his game or at anybody's else's. No one knew nor guessed that he had been hit, much less hit hard.
He glanced coolly from face to face to note any vagrant signs of the game that was being played upon him, but beyond a healthy curiosity the faces betrayed nothing. Then he turned to the gambler and said in cold, even tones: "Inwood, I've got an even five hundred here that says the print of what you have just said is not in that paper." The gambler looked at him in quizzical surprise.
These verses are surely on the way to some poetic interpretation of the changed seasons which shall fix the devotions of the future in classic form. From "The Christian Year Beneath the Southern Cross," by the Rev. F. R. Inwood.
"This way," said the Tracer, smilingly taking the pencil from his fingers, and he wrote: I NEVER SAW YOU BUT ONCE. I LOVE YOU. EDITH INWOOD. Then he laid the pencil on the table and walked to the window. Once or twice he fancied that he heard incoherent sounds behind him. And after a while he turned, retracing his steps leisurely.
The first ship which, according to our present ideas, could properly be considered a frigate, was the Southampton, built at Rotherhithe in the year 1757 by Mr Robert Inwood, according to a draft of Sir Thomas Slade, one of the surveyors of the navy. She measured 671 tons, and mounted 26 12-pounders on the main-deck, 4 6-pounders on the quarter-deck, and 2 6-pounders on the forecastle.
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