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"How do you know?" and Lorimer began to brush his stiff curly hair with a sort of vicious vigor. "How can you tell? I'm not a spiritualist, nor any sort of a humbug at all, I hope, but I sometimes indulge in presentiments. Before we started on this cruise, I was haunted by that dismal old ballad of Sir Patrick Spens " 'The King's daughter of Norroway 'Tis thou maun bring her hame!
"The place is a pig-sty!" declared Mr. Lorimer, roused out of all complacence and casting dainty phraseology to the winds. "And you, sir," he addressed his second son, "wholly unfit for civilized society. Go upstairs, and if you have any appetite left after this disgusting exhibition satisfy it in the nursery!"
Is there any means whatever by which I can annul the bargain? "'Smithson bid beneath your limit, and then bought it acting as broker for Mr. Lorimer, was the answer. 'I have applied for a record of conveyance, and the sale was made by your orders. It cannot be canceled now without the consent of the purchaser, and a new record.
"Worrying in" is scarcely the term to apply to the polite but determined manner in which George Lorimer coolly elbows a passage among the heaving bare shoulders, backs, fat arms, and long trains that seriously obstruct his passage, but after some trouble he succeeds in his efforts to reach his fair hostess, who receives him with rather a supercilious uplifting of her delicate eyebrows.
'Directly the season is over I shall give up housekeeping and take a lodging at Bath, said Colonel Lorimer. 'If you don't like Bath all the year round you can stay with your sisters. 'That is the last thing I am likely to do, answered Georgina; 'my sisters were barely endurable when they were single and poor. They are quite intolerable now they are married and rich.
The other entertainments in the course of a year cover such a variety of subjects that every one is sure to find something to his liking. Among the lectures given in one year were: "Changes and Chances," by Dr. George C. Lorimer. "The Greek Church," by Charles Emory Smith. "Ancient Greece," by Professor Leotsakos, of the University of Athens.
He lifted his eyes from the fire, looked at her steadily for a minute, and then stared into the fire again. She grew restless with the stillness. "And we thought perhaps you could say something." "To ?" he asked, without raising his eyes. "To Mr. Lorimer." "What could I say?" "Something to break it off." In spite of himself, he laughed outright. "Would you advise threats or bribery, Miss Gannion?
'It's no good jawing about it, he said, 'there isn't a word to say for the man. He hasn't a leg to stand on. Why, it would be bad enough in a House or form match even, but when it comes to first matches ! Here words failed Lorimer. 'Not at all, said Pringle, unmoved. 'There are heaps of reasons, jolly good reasons, why he might have gone away. 'Such as? said Lorimer.
I never knew the rights of it till I saw the brother to-night." "Very praiseworthy family confidence!" "Camilla, you know I object to that tone." "So do most young ladies, my dear at least by word." "And once for all, you need have no fancies about Mr. Lorimer Strangeways.
They were walking slowly along a little winding path that led to the orchard, which was situated at some little distance from the house. The girl's head was bent, and Philip was talking to her with evident eagerness. Lorimer looked after them earnestly, and his honest eyes were full of trouble. "God bless them both!" he murmured half aloud. "There's no harm in saying that, any how! Dear old Phil!
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