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James or, as his followers called him, "Jimmy" Medland was forty-one years of age, once an engineer, now a politician, by profession, a tall, loose-limbed, slouching man, with stiff black hair and a shaven face. His features were large and had been clear-cut, but by now they had grown coarser, and his deep-set eyes, under heavy lids and bushy eyebrows, alone survived unimpaired by time and life.
"Not in that hat!" implored Daisy. "Certainly," answered Norburn, though it is doubtful if he had in truth intended to do so, but for Daisy's taunts. A tragic silence followed. At last, Miss Medland exclaimed, "What will Lady Eynesford think of my friends?" "I didn't know you cared so much for what Lady Eynesford thought. Besides, I need not present myself in that character."
Lady Eynesford, Eleanor Scaife, and Alicia were standing at the gate. They had hardly seen the procession turn a corner and come into sight before Dick galloped up. "What is it, Dick?" cried Lady Eynesford. "Willie's not hurt?" "No it's it's Mr. Medland." Eleanor was standing by Alicia, and she felt a sudden clutch on her arm. "What has happened?" she asked.
He declined his wife's invitation to regard the matter in the most serious light, or to attribute any heinous offence to the Premier, contenting himself with remarking that Medland had a more powerful motive to maintain order than any one else; he also ventured to suggest that the best way of considering the question was not through a mist of prejudice against the Premier and all his belongings.
He paused and added "And the worst of it, I am rather like a criminal and " He paused abruptly. A thought struck him and made him frown angrily at his folly. It was stupid to think of himself as love-sick, even in jest. He had not come to that. And to think of himself as a lover was not a thought that carried pleasant memories to Mr. Medland.
The English illogicality which hung obstinately round even such gifted men as Medland and le jeune Norburn, so oppressed François who could not see why, if you might hint at cudgels in the background, you should not use them that, on his way to his next committee, he turned into a tavern to refresh his spirit.
I must say I heartily agree, and of course it could easily be managed, if Medland liked. Perry would do it in a minute. I really don't see why the best berth in the colony is to be handed over to some hungry failure from London. But no doubt you'll agree with Medland." "Oh, I don't know," said Coxon. "It seems to me rather a point where the Bar here ought to assert itself."
In front of the trenches machine guns hidden in barns and houses ripped the top of the parapets of the hastily-formed trenches held by the Toronto Regiment. Here Lieutenant "Bill" Jarvis of Toronto died the death of a hero. Medland, another of the Toronto boys much loved by his men, was hit.
Women can't understand constitutional obligations." "She said she wouldn't have him to the house," remarked Dick. "Oh, Eleanor Scaife must persuade her. I wish you'd go and tell them, Dick. I'm expecting Medland in half-an-hour. I wish I was out of it. I distrust these fellows, both them and their policy." "And yet you'll have to be civil to them." "Civil!
Medland," said an officious probationer, "he jumped over the rail and broke it." He walked up to the offender all listened for the storm. He calmly said, "Mr. Medland, you are fond of jumping go to Sadler's Wells it is the best academy in the world for improving agility." A student as he passed held up his drawing, and said confidently, "Here, sir I finished it without using a crumb of bread."
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