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She was a child under six at this time, Jane Nettles was a woman between twenty and thirty, and the policeman she could not say what age he was; but she was the only one of the three that throbbed responsive to the beauty of the wonderful scene before them, or felt her being flooded with the glory of the hour. Meanwhile, what her parents would have called her education had begun.
"You are already pretty hard-worked. But it is really important that these dispatches should go through." "If you don't get a courier before four this afternoon, I'll be ready for business," I told him. "All I want is a fresh horse. Meanwhile I'll get a little more rest." It was not much of a rest, however, that I got. I went over to Hays City and had a "time" with the boys.
It was some days before Gordon was able to sit up, and meanwhile he learned that his assailant and rescuer had been every day to make inquiry about him, and his father, Mr. Wentworth, had written to Gordon's father and expressed his concern at the accident.
He was facetiously attired for the evening as a wild man of Borneo, and the most exacting stage manager after one look at his face would have acknowledged that any improvement in casting the part would have been quite impossible. Meanwhile the two principals held the real centre of the stage.
They had parted company for a couple of months, for Roderick was now a great man and beyond the need of going about with a keeper. But they were to meet again in Rome in the autumn, and then he should be able to send her more good news. Meanwhile, he was very happy in what Roderick had already done especially happy in the happiness it must have brought to her.
Meanwhile the mother wrote violent letters to the heads of the college, exposing family troubles in a way which called forth a remonstrance from even the lad himself.
Kaiser Karl meanwhile was rather short of heirs; which formed another of his real troubles, and involved him in much shadow-hunting.
Meanwhile the boarders were discussing matters from their point of view. "It's just what I expected," said Norman Hallett, a tall, well-built boy, who was the eldest in the school. "Once open the door only a chink and in pours the whole town." He waved a half-eaten crust to illustrate the pouring in. "West had better drop the name of Brincliffe, and call us Elmridge Grammar School at once.
Meanwhile the allies were dissipating their strength. A Russian corps, acting from Corfu as a base, and an English expedition from Malta, were jointly to attack St. Cyr in the south of Italy, raise the country at his rear and compel him to surrender. This plan was left helplessly flapping in the air by a convention which Napoleon imposed on the Neapolitan ambassador.
His comrade without any protest stretched himself in the leaves and soon slept soundly. Meanwhile Henry maintained vigilant watch. In order to keep his muscles elastic he rose and walked about a little at times, but he did not leave the shelter of the thick little grove that the shiftless one had called a bower.
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