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The scanty description of Captains Irby and Mangles, the only one I had read, gave me no distinct idea of its position or appearance; and when, the other day, I first saw it looming grand and gray among the gray hills, more like a vast natural crystallization than the product of human art, I revelled in the novelty of that startling first impression.
She recalls his bringing her soon afterwards an article on her, written, he said, in an adoring tone by Laveleye in the "Revue des Deux Mondes," and directing her to a paper in "Fraser," by Miss Pauline Irby, a passionate lover of the "Slav ragamuffins," and a worshipper of Madame Novikoff.
"Now, what do you think of that for luck?" he exclaimed on catching sight of me; "Senator Irby, a stake-horse, to be beaten out by an old dog like Peytonia? It's enough to " "Peytonia!" I echoed breathlessly, "did Peytonia win?" "Of course she won. Did n't you see the race?"
Flora, we have seen, had been willing, eager, for them to come to arrive; not because Charlie, but because his captain, was one of the two. But Irby, never sure of her, and forever jealous of the ladies' man, had contrived, in a dull way, to detain the home-comers in mid-journey, with telegraphic orders to see here a commandant and there a factory of arms and hurry men and munitions to the front.
Constance gasped and Kincaid exclaimed, "Well! since when and from where, Steve Mandeville?" The rider sprang clanking to the ground and whipped out a document. All pressed round him. He gave his bride two furious kisses, held her in one arm and handed the missive to Kincaid: "With the compliment of Général Brodnax!" Irby edged toward Flora, drawn by a look.
The additional companies were: "Company E, from Laurens Captain M.M. Hunter. Company F, from Richland Captain D.B. Miller. Company G, from Fairfield Captain A.P. Irby. "Major James was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, and Captain W.G. Rice, as senior Captain, made Major, while Lieutenant J.M. Townsend was raised to the grade of Captain in place of Major Rice.
During my last stay in Montenegro I had been informed by Miss Irby one of the women who distinguish their English race by their angelic charity and works for humanity, and who, being engaged in benevolent work in Bosnia, became one of my firm allies that reports had been put in circulation in London against my probity and the trustworthiness of my correspondence, imputing to me indeed a conduct which would have excluded me from honorable society.
To the holder of the flag Hilary pointed out Anna, lingered for a word with his subaltern, and then followed the standard to the Callenders' balcony. "Charlie has two ribs broken, but is doing well," ran a page of the diary; "so well that Flora and Madame who bears fatigue wonderfully let Captain Irby take them, in the evening, to see the illumination.
Queer world. Can you be sure the next pair you meet walking together of a summer eve are as starry as they look? Lo, Constance and Miranda. Did the bride herself realize what a hunger of loneliness was hers? Or Anna and Irby, with Madame between them.
Miss Flora, the fate of all my uncle holds dear is hanging by a thread, a spider's web, a young girl's freak! If ever she gives him a certain turn of the hand, the right glance of her eye, he'll be at her feet and every hope I cherish " "Captain Irby," Flora softly asked with her tinge of accent, "is not this the third time?" "Yes, if you mean again that "
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