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He reclined on a long chair, supported by pillows cunningly set for him by the deft hands of Leduc, and took his ease and indulged his day-dreams in Lord Ostermore's garden.
And, indeed, no sooner was the idea conceived than it quickened into a resolve upon which he set out to act. He bade Leduc call a chair, and, dressed in mourning, but with his habitual care, he had himself carried to Lincoln's Inn Fields. Engrossed as he was in his own thoughts, he paid little heed to the hum of excitement about the threshold of Stretton House.
Shortly after the players' arrival began the celebrated Leduc matches, attracting noted men and women from all over the South. The hotels were crowded, the lodging-houses filled, while many of the large homes hospitably opened their doors to visiting friends.
Rotherby ignored the insult. "We shall see, then, whether you can do anything more than talk." "I hope that your lordship, too, is master of other accomplishments. As a talker, I do not find you very gifted. But perhaps Leduc will be less exigent than I." "Bah!" his lordship flung at him, and went out, cursing him profusely, Gaskell following at his master's heels.
Leduc? Leduc? Don't remember that name. The boy is waiting for his money. A dollar and thirteen cents. Has nobody got thirteen cents? Don't keep that boy waiting, how do we know what messages he has got to carry? The boy had another message to carry.
Caryll blinked foolishly. "My wits are very dull, I fear," said he. "I still cannot understand." "Then I'll make it all clear to you," said his lordship. Leduc appeared at the arbor entrance. "What now?" asked Mr. Caryll. "Her ladyship is approaching, sir," answered Leduc the vigilant. Lord Ostermore and Mr.
The spy looked at him with a moody eye, plucking thoughtfully at his lip with thumb and forefinger. Then he brightened suddenly. "There's your man," said he, flashing a quick eye upon Leduc, who looked up with a quiet smile. "True," said Mr. Caryll, "and there's my portmantle above-stairs, and my saddle on my horse in the stables.
Now I am an invalid no longer." "But the doctor " she began. "The doctor, ma'am, is disposed of already," he assured her. "Very definitely disposed of. Ask Leduc. He will tell you." "Not a doubt of that," she answered. "Leduc talks too much." "You have a spite against him for the information he gave me on the score of how and by whom I was nursed.
A noted European chemist, Dr. Leduc, has produced what he calls "osmotic growths," from purely unorganized mineral matter growths in form like seaweed and polyps and corals and trees. His seeds are fragments of calcium chloride, and his soil is a solution of the alkaline carbonates, phosphates, or silicates.
She started at the cold softness of the tones of his voice. "Leduc," he said, "just a minute it will hardly take longer." The man turned quickly at the sound of the voice at his side, and for the space of seconds the two big men faced each other on the packed snow of the skidway.
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