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"You were not disappointed because you couldn't reach the top?" Miss Jardine laughed. "Helen was. She makes it a rule to accomplish what she undertakes. I wasn't disappointed then, though I am now. Perhaps one really enjoys mountaineering best afterwards. You like to think how adventurous you have been, but it's sometimes difficult while the adventure's going on." "That's true," Festing agreed.
The landlord knew it well a quaint cottage with a pretty garden. Old Miss Alison Jardine was living in it when he came first to Priorsford; dead now, but the young folk were still in it. "Young folk?" said Peter Reid. "Yes," said the landlord, "Miss Jean Jardine and her brothers. Orphans, I'm told. Father an Anglo-Indian. Nice people? Oh, very. Quiet and inoffensive.
Jardine, smiling; 'but it is pleasant to see boys enjoy life so thoroughly. They are fond of all open air amusements, and they are keen observers, and I find that they think a good deal, which is a stage towards work. 'They are not utterly idiotic, sighed Bessie; 'but they never read, and they break things in a dreadful way.
"You're the second woman," remarked Strickland, "who's said that to-day," and told her of Mother Binning. Mrs. Jardine pushed back a fallen ember with the toe of her shoe. "I don't know whether she sees or only thinks she sees. Some do the tane and some do the tither. Here's the laird." Two men entered together a large man and a small man.
For myself I do not care much for French novels. I like the Russians best. Sincerely yours, "Karen Woodruff." "Les Solitudes, "April 2nd. "Dear Mr. Jardine, You make a charming picture of the primroses in the blue and white bowls for me. And of your view over the park. London can be so beautiful; I, too, care for it very much.
"I have received two hundred francs from a patient, and I am going to risk them at play. Two hundred francs will not pay Jardine or the others, but with them I may win several thousands of francs." "Oh! Poor dear! How desperate you must be you, such as you are, to have such an idea!" "Am I wrong?" "Never wrong to my eyes, to my heart, to my love. O my beloved, may fortune be with you!"
Alexander Jardine, standing at the edge of the emerald, watched it. He could not sleep. The first nights in the Garland he with the others had slept profoundly. But now there was recuperation, strength again. Around swept the circle of the desert. Above him he saw Canopus. He ceased to look directly at the moon, or the desert, or Canopus.
Sometimes the girl allowed herself to slide, sometimes she ran a few yards and sprang, but she did not stumble or lose her balance. Miss Jardine was cautious, and Festing kept near her, carrying her sack. At the bottom they came to a wide belt of massive stones, fallen from the heights above, and their progress was slow.
Your arm, good. And while he is supposed to be feeling the pulse of the patient with one hand, with the other he is writing his prescription: 'Vomitive, purgative, forty sous; and he hurries away, his diagnosis having taken less than five minutes; he had no time to waste. I object to the Hotel du Senat because I have had enough of it, and it was there that Jardine tempted me with his proposals.
Jardine" Mrs. Jardine was the keeper of the boarding-house "she'll tell you a thing or two about my being able to keep men from annoying me." Barbara did, afterwards, ask Mrs. Jardine, and obtained a few sidelights on Liosha's defensive methods. What they lacked in subtlety they made up in physical effectiveness.
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