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Except the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke of Kent was the only royal duke who was likely to have children in the regular line. The only daughter of George IV. had died in childhood.
By and by comes Will Howe to see us, and walked with me an hour in the garden, talking of my Lord's falling to business again, which I am glad of, and his coming to lie at his lodgings at White Hall again. The match between Sir J. Cutts and my Lady Jemimah, he says, is likely to go on; for which I am glad. In the Hall to-day Dr.
On the cruiser the jackies saw visions of a prize worth a million and a half of dollars; and the thought of so much prize-money to spend, or to send home, spurred them on. For several hours the chase seemed likely to be a long, stern one; but then the freshening wind filled the sails of the gunboat, and she began to overhaul the fugitive.
He might have to go right on to Christiania, no later than to-morrow to go to school there; and when he came back why, very likely the old mother might not be there any more. So all three of them were heavy-hearted, when the pock-marked good-wife, and the bow-legged old man, came down with him to the pier.
In what ways is one who has had private instruction likely to be a poorer citizen than one who has attended school? What conditions might cause some of those who go through school to be polluted instead of rectified? Whose fault would it be? What questions should we ask ourselves about the things that are being done in our schools?
There's lots of hard-luck stories that you've got to hear anyhow. The fellow that can keep his to himself is the fellow that's likely to get there." "Get there?" the vicar murmured reflectively, and Selden chuckled again. "Get where he started out to go to the White House, if you like. The fellows that have got there kept their hardluck stories quiet, I bet.
"There is rain falling there; and most likely we shall have a shower or two here by and by; and, as you have no waterproof, we may as well push on to a place of shelter where we can have our lunch.
At the same moment von Horn was leading Virginia Maxon farther and farther from the north campong where resistance, if there was to be any, would be most likely to occur. At his superior's cough Bududreen had signalled silently to the men within the enclosure, and a moment later six savage lascars crept stealthily to his side.
This aspiration seemed the more likely to be fulfilled, when within a week or so the Patmans heard from the family of Tom's first wife, who held out prospects of work for himself, and a home for Katty and his father a proposal which was gladly accepted.
"When I first heard of it, I thought it quite likely. Then when I read your letter my doubts vanished." He saw that he had not been judicious, for there was, for the first time, a trace of hardness in the girl's expression. "He showed you that?" she asked. "One small part of it," assured Wyllard.
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