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He will part from her calmly, and fancy she is happy to get back to her music and her poultry and her flower-garden. He did not even ride part of the way homewards by the side of his friend's carriage. He had some other party arranged for, that afternoon, and when he returned thence, the good Lamberts were gone from Tunbridge Wells.
When the evening came, and the witching hour was there, Ada and Edith appeared at the barracks as bright as their second-hand finery could make them. They had awarded to them something of especial glory as being boycotted heroines, and were regarded with a certain amount of envy by the Miss Blakes, Miss Bodkins, Miss Lamberts, Miss Ffrenchs, and Miss Parsons of the neighbourhood.
The "Lamberts" rank among Thackeray's best character sketches. I. Harry Warrington Comes Home One summer morning in the year 1756, and in the reign of his Majesty King George the Second, the Young Rachel, Virginian ship, Edward Franks, master, came up the Avon river on her happy return from her annual voyage to the Potomac.
"Something grave has happened, madam," says the chaplain. "Oh! The boy is always getting into scrapes! I suppose he has been falling in love with one of those country girls what are their names, Lamberts? with whom he is ever dawdling about. He has been doing no good here for some time.
The little crowd had gathered in the immediate neighborhood of the forge, and de Chavasse, from where he now stood, could not see the entrance of the lean-to, only the blank side wall of the shed, and the front of the Lamberts' cottage, the doors and windows of which were hermetically closed.
"Bad as he is, I can't help remembering that he is my brother." "And the head of the Lamberts," added her husband gravely. "You may be sure that I shall try and save the name from disgrace." "It's a dismal ending to our honeymoon." "Let us look upon it as the last hedge of trouble which has to be jumped." Agnes laughed at this quaint way of putting things, and cheered up.
Clarke's family." "I must find them. Clarke has committed suicide, and it is necessary to notify his friends and " Morton's brain blurred with the force of this blow, "You don't mean it! When did it happen?" "About an hour ago. We must find the Lamberts, and if you can give us any information " "Who are you?" "I'm a representative of The Recorder. Can I see you for a few minutes, Dr. Serviss?"
"The governor, I'm sorry to say, has a weakness for toddy, and I've retired him. He boards in White Plains with Patsy Cline summers, and relapses winters." Serviss changed the subject. "By-the-way, I want to ask you about this man Clarke. What kind of a chap is he?" Britt's answer was languid but adequate. "Three parts fakir and the rest fanatic." "I was afraid so and the Lamberts, what of them?"
"Meseems that 'tis somewhat strange," he said quite calmly, even lightly, to Squire Boatfield who seemed to be preparing to go, "that these people the Lamberts who alone knew the ... the murdered man intimately, should keep so persistently, so determinedly out of the way."
But lunch time came, and lunch time went by, without any trace or track of Tavia being discovered. Finally Dorothy broke down, and went to her own room. Cologne followed her, and there, in the secret nook in the big camp farm, the two girls discussed every possible clause of the case, and tried with heroic effort to shed some light on the mystery. "Was it the Lamberts? Or could it be "
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