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Crown 8vo. 6s. Of Mr. Benson's second novel the 'Birmingham Post' says it is 'well written, stimulating, unconventional, and, in a word, characteristic'; the 'National Observer congratulates Mr. Benson upon 'an exceptional achievement, and calls the book 'a notable advance on his previous work. M.M. DOWIE. GALLIA. By MÉNIE MURIEL DOWIE, Author of 'A Girl in the Carpathians. Second Edition.
Mrs Greenleaf sent me. She wants you to-day." "But, I can go there any time. I was there, not long ago; I would rather stay at home to-day with Graeme, thank you." "And what am I to say to Mrs Greenleaf? No, I'm not going without you. So, get ready and come with me." Menie pouted. "And Graeme had just consented to my staying at home quietly for the day."
From the result of his anxious enquiries, Hartley had reason to hope, that though Seringapatam was seventy-five miles more to the eastward than Bangalore, yet, by using diligence, he might have time to throw himself at the feet of Hyder, and beseech his interposition, before the meeting betwixt Tippoo and the Begum should decide the fate of Menie Gray.
The fate of Menie Gray, connected with such a man and such a woman, rushed on his fancy in the most horrid colours, and he was struggling through the throng to get to some place where he might collect his ideas, and consider what could be done for her protection, when a black attendant touched his arm, and at the same time slipped a card into his hand. It bore, "Miss Gray, Mrs.
The seal was very weak now, and Kesshoo knew that it would soon come to the surface and float and that then he could tow it in. He had not long to wait. The bladder bobbed about for a while and then was still. Kesshoo drew up the line, and paddled back to the ice raft, towing the big seal after him. "Catch this," he said to Menie. He threw him the end of the line.
Menie knew what the queer noise meant, for his father had told him all about seal hunting. It meant that a seal-hole was near, and that a seal had come up to breathe. It was the seal that made the "plopping" noise. Menie tried to keep the dogs still, but they wouldn't be kept still. They ran round with their noses on the snow, giving little anxious whines, and short, sharp barks.
Whether the tempest was more than Master Arthur could stand, or whether Lady Catherine, in her fury for she had no joke of a tongue and temper said something of Menie which drove the boy to finish the business in his own way, was long a disputed point in the servants' hall; but next morning he was missed in the castle, and in the course of my duties the same forenoon, I brought a letter from the village post-office, the reading of which sent the young ladies off in hysterics, and made Lady Catherine retire to her room for it announced that her heir of entail and the farmer's daughter were gone to get married in Glasgow.
While the Doctor formed this good-natured resolution, young Middlemas rushed to Nurse Jamieson's apartment, where poor Menie, to whom his presence always gave holyday feelings, hastened to exhibit, for his admiration, a new doll, of which she had made the acquisition.
When he got the first row done Menie said, "I can do that! Let me try." He took the knife and cut out a block. It wasn't nice and even like his father's blocks. "That will never do," his father said. "Your house will tumble down unless your blocks are true." He made the sides of the block straight by cutting off some of the snow.
And so they went on, jestingly. "Menie," said Arthur, suddenly, "what do you see in the fire?" Menie was gazing with darkening eyes, in among the red embers. She started when her brother spoke. "I see Oh! many things. I see our old garden at home, in Clayton, I mean and " "It must be an imaginary garden, then. I am sure you canna mind that." "Mind it! indeed I do.
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