Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 17, 2025
As she entered on this occasion she happened to overhear two women talking in a corner behind a screen erected to conceal wraps. "Oh, here comes Mrs. Cowperwood," said one. "She's the street-railway magnate's wife. Last winter and spring he was running with that Platow girl of the Garrick Players, you know." The other nodded, studying Aileen's splendiferous green velvet gown with envy.
Precisely in the same way as Croffut makes no mention of Vanderbilt's share in the mail subsidy frauds, but, on the contrary, ascribes to Vanderbilt the most splendid patriotism in his mail carrying operations, so do Croffut and other writers unctuously dilate upon the old magnate's patriotic services during the Civil War.
The next day it was known all over the village that the Squire had left town, without giving out definitely when he would return. "Squire's kinder obstinit, but arter all he knows w'en he's licked," observed Abner, which was substantially the view generally taken of the magnate's retirement from the field.
Soon after dinner Otley, whose seat had been between the steel magnate's wife and her daughter, went outside on the veranda alone. He was in no mood for bridge and preferred a breath of air outside.
This was another revelation, and upset the other half of my fictitious combination. I had imagined that my countryman had won the love of some South American magnate's daughter, and in this way had become the possessor of his innumerable millions. Mr. Dumany might have read my thoughts in my face, for he smiled and said
Frederick Grierson, and in spite of the fact that it has since become notorious in the eyes of a virtue-stricken public, it was entered into with all innocence at the time: most of the men who were present at the "magnate's" table at the Boyne Club the day Mr. Grierson broached it will vouch for this. He casually asked Mr.
First it stirred me up; then it pointed at the Sappho; then it indicated that there is One above, and then it went out." He headed the launch straight for the Sappho, and began to wonder what one had to do to get aboard of a magnate's yacht at night. He turned to the engineer. "Gryce," he said, "what do you know about yachts?" "What about 'em?" Gryce answered sulkily.
"How do you know they're going to break into the house to-night?" he demanded of Burke; "or do you only think they're going to break into the house?" "I know they are." The Inspector's harsh voice brought out the words boastfully. "I fixed it." "You did!" There was wonder in the magnate's exclamation. "Sure," Burke declared complacently, "did it through a stool-pigeon."
You can harangue me afterwards. The doors are locked, no doubt; you need not fear that she will get away, or I either, seeing the costume we wear." The two functionaries bowed to the magnate's injunctions. "You, come here, miserable cur!" said Hulot in a low voice to Marneffe, taking him by the arm and drawing him closer. "It is not I, but you, who will be the murderer!
But the time for the trip the end of August had been unfortunately chosen. And, as she returned ornamented with scratches administered by the tenor's pursuing wife no one believed her. Next winter she ruined a counsellor of a legation and magnate's son so thoroughly that he decamped to an unfrequented equatorial region, leaving behind him numerous promissory notes of questionable value.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking