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"I suppose we must believe that Gloy is all right," said Lowrie, "so we needn't concern ourselves about his life at the present time." "He says he is still the prisoner," said Yaspard musingly; then after a long pause he added, "Look here, boys, we might as well go on with this night's performance as far as we can without our captive. "All serene," was Lowrie's reply; and Gibbie added, "Just so."
There were some portraits in heavy old gilt men with florid faces and tied hair, and the delicate replicas of high-breasted women in brocades. There was, plainly, an air of the exceptional in Amelia Lowrie's conduction of Linda to her room. She waited at the door while the other moved forward to the center of a chamber empty of all the luxury Linda had grown to demand.
I can't say that we will take the men outside every holiday, but the experiment was a success and will be tried again." What the glimpse of a world outside the prison walls meant for the prisoners can be appreciated by readers of "The Bulletin" who have read Donald Lowrie's narrative of life within the prison walls. The Admission Day game marked a new epoch in the history of California prisons.
"Brian, run up to Micky Lowrie's for your father, An' see, Brian, don't say who's wantin' him, till we give him a start. Mary, come here, acushla," she added to her eldest daughter in a whisper "take these two bottles an' fly up to Peggy Finigan's for the full o' them o' whiskey. Now be back before you're there, or if you don't, that I mightn't, but you'll see what you'll get.
Better to die than be shamed in the mountain country. He hurried to the window for another look into the street, and he found that Sinclair had disappeared. Lowrie's knees buckled under his weight. He went over to the bed, with short steps like a drunken man, and lowered himself down on it. Sinclair had gone into the hotel, and doubtless that meant that he had grown impatient.
In "Little Lord Fauntleroy" the author of "That Lass o' Lowrie's" has given us a book which is absolutely certain to become one of the few real classics in the literature for children.
You must have shifted your quarters. Here is your address," said Mr. Brandon, taking out his pocket-book "'Peggy Walker, at Mr. Thomas Lowrie's, Swinton, shire. I was going to see you to-morrow, but you have saved me a journey to no purpose." "I brought the bairns into the town for better schooling, and on account of Tam; and grandfather finds it agrees brawly with him, too.
Even now she was keeping up, partly for Tom Lowrie's sake, and partly for her own gratification, some of those branches of learning that were likely to be useful to him, and corresponding with him every week on those subjects. Mrs. Phillips sighed, and said she had been married at sixteen, and had been very little at school all her life.
Yet still I knew it looked like, ah, very like a man catching a whale with a fish hook secured to his own person, when there were a hundred chances to one that the whale had caught him. I replied that the St. Cloud Visiter would support Mr. Buchanan's administration, since it could not live without Gen. Lowrie's assistance, and such was his ultimatum.
She was unable to define the change; but it was unmistakable Stella Condon seemed a little old-fashioned. When now, to Lowrie's wife, Linda was unmistakably out-of-date. Lowrie, fast accomplishing all that had been predicted for him, had married a girl incomprehensible to his mother. Observing this later feminine development she had the baffled feeling of inspecting a creature of a new order.
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