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He left his card and a polite message for the girl, pressed a substantial tip on the reluctant landlord, and was soon rattling homeward up Chiswick high-road, feeling none the worse for his wetting, but, on the contrary, gifted with a keen appetite. He had sent his boat back to Maynard's. "What a pretty girl that was!" he reflected.
However, when it proved that the amusement was to be a ride in the park, it sounded rather attractive. The ride in the park, though conducted under rather formal conditions, proved very enjoyable to the four young Maynards. Grandpa Maynard's equipage was a Victoria with a span of fine horses.
And put in your picture, won't you? The one on my mantelpiece, I mean. Then I'll have it to kiss good-night to." Mrs. Maynard's voice choked a little, but she said: "Yes, dear, I will. Good-bye for now; we mustn't monopolize Mrs. Spencer's telephone." "Good-bye," said Midget, reluctantly, and hung up the receiver, feeling that now she was indeed an exile from her home.
Richard solicits a passport. Maynard's answer. The alarm given. King Richard's flight through Germany. Richard concealed near Vienna. His messenger. Torturing the messenger. The king a captive. The archduke imprisons Richard in Tiernsteign. The emperor buys the prisoner. It was now late in the season, and the autumnal gales had begun to blow.
Maynard pointed out the different business buildings, some of which they already recognized. They had to cross a downtown ferry, and soon they were speeding north through the streets of crowded traffic. As they neared Grandma Maynard's house in Fifth Avenue, Mrs. Maynard looked over her brood carefully to see if they were in proper order for presentation.
The ladies, after some cynical tittering, forgot them, and rejoiced in the spectacle of conjugal harmony afforded them: women are generous creatures, and there is hardly any offence which they are not willing another woman should forgive her husband, when once they have said that they do not see how she could ever forgive him. Mrs. Maynard's silence seemed insufficient to none but Mrs.
Maynard, of William, and the way he saves his soul, ma'am." Presently we heard that the head porter at Maynard's had left, and that William was head porter at twenty-three shillings a week. "He is really kind of over the man who drives the van," said Jane, "and him married, with three children."
The John and Pauline whaler put them ashore at Levuka, and I can tell you I went to bed with a bad head that night." "What did you do with Miss Maynard's I beg her pardon Mrs. Colonel Maclean's letter?" "Posted it to her, and this is what I got in reply," and he showed him the note he had exhibited to his friend Tom Craig. Barry read it with a smile of contempt. "What's the other news, Watson?"
From over the distance came the memory of Ma'm Maynard's words: "I tell you, Miss Mary, it has halways been so and it halways will: Everything that lives has its own natural enemy and a woman's natural enemy eet is man!" "No, sir!" said Mary to herself, as resolutely as ever, "I don't believe it.
He was a perpetual source of delight to the colonel, and one of the most loyal and devoted of subalterns, despite the fact that his locks were long silvered with the frosts of years and that he had fought through the war of the rebellion and risen to the rank of a field-officer in Maynard's old brigade.
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