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They encroach so much on the space in the narrow chancel that a most curious method for lengthening the communion-rail has been resorted to that of bringing forward from the centre a long narrow space enclosed with the rails. From the pulpit Laurence Sterne preached when he was incumbent here for the last eight years of his life.
We are not all fresh from the wilderness, added the stately damsel who, having Mayflower ancestors, felt that she was the equal of all the crowned heads of Europe. 'Hush, she's coming! Oh, my heart, what a bonnet! cried the gay girl in a stage whisper; and every eye was demurely fixed upon the busy hands as the door opened to admit Mrs Laurence and her guest.
My housekeeper is always bewailing my lack of appreciation of what she calls comfort" taking out his pocket-book as he spoke, and putting it on to the dressing-table before removing his coat. Laurence took quick note of the position of the book upon the table.
By that time the marquis and Laurence were leaving France by way of Besancon with the diplomatic passport. Laurence crossed Switzerland in the first days of October, without paying the slightest attention to that glorious land. She lay back in the carriage in the torpor which overtakes a criminal on the eve of his execution.
Happily for her peace, the story was not long delayed: she learnt it that evening. This was the scene in Mr. Laurence Fairfax's study.
Chiltern is the last man in the world to whom I would wish to trust the happiness of a woman for whom I cared." "Chiltern is a very good fellow," said Laurence Fitzgibbon. "Just a little wild," said Mrs. Bonteen. "And never had a shilling in his pocket in his life," said her husband. "I regard him as simply a madman," said Lord Fawn. "I do so wish I knew him," said Madame Max Goesler.
When these nine persons came to actually observe each other, for in all meetings, even in the bosom of families, there comes a moment when friends observe those from whom they have been long parted, the first glance which Adrien d'Hauteserre cast upon Laurence seemed to his mother and to the abbe to betray love.
For a luxurious boy, he is a luxurious boy the cousin I mean. It appears that he has made a fortune in Canada." "Truly!" said Sophia, with politeness. Laurence's hand was playing on the edge of the bed, and Sophia observed for the first time that it bore a wedding-ring. "You remark my ring?" Laurence laughed. "That is he the cousin. 'What! he said, 'you do not wear an alliance?
"Did you also get to thinking," said Laurence, crisply, "that I'm just about making my salt at present, and still you're suggesting that I tie a dead old newspaper about my neck and jump overboard? One might fancy you hankered to add my obituary to your collection!" he finished with a touch of tartness. The Butterfly Man smiled ever so gently.
As I expected, I was not long without a visit from Laurence Kehoe's lieutenants. Horn and Cousens, detective officers, called upon me to make enquiries about the revolvers which, they said, "Arthur had left with me." I need scarcely say they gained nothing by their visitation.
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