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"That's just what I find it so hard to do!" confessed young Nisbet. "I'm a stupid sort of lout, you know, Miss Rathbawne. I've never had half a chance to practice talking to dames, and where other lads fuss like experts, I just can't make good. I foozle every stroke. I'm an ass that's all!" "You're nothing of the sort!" said Dorothy indignantly. "You're an extremely attractive young man!"
From Charteris he would now be separated by the whole breadth of Agpur, unless they both journeyed far to the south-west, where for a short distance the boundaries of Darwan and Habshiabad ran along opposite banks of the river Tindar, while of Nisbet and Cowper in Agpur itself it was unlikely that he would see anything, as the frontier dispute with which they were to deal concerned the other side of the state.
The Power of the Spirit: An Address to the Clergy. By WILLIAM LAW. With additional Extracts and an Introduction by Rev. A. M. James Nisbet & Co. 2s. 6d. The Divine Indwelling. Selections from the Letters of William Law. With Introduction by A. M. James Nisbet & Co. XI. p. 136 There is a question, the deepest of all, on which I have not entered in this book.
Nisbet and Cowper still slept in their desecrated grave in the precincts of Ratan Singh's tomb, not because the mind of General Speathley had yielded in the least to Gerrard's arguments, but on account of the opportune arrival of the ammunition for which the army had been waiting, and which enabled active work to begin at once.
The great room, with its costly furnishings, the tea-table crowded with silver and fragile porcelain, the kettle purring contentedly above the iridescent flame of the alcohol lamp, above all, the subtle, indefinable suggestion of femininity which unknowably pervaded his surroundings, all these enthralled young Nisbet beyond expression, and awed him immeasurably, into the bargain.
Nisbet will think you bring people up by throwing them down!" "And slang! Dorothy!" "I always think," said Mrs. Wynyard, "that Dorothy should have had a fairy godmother, to promise that every time she uttered a word of slang a pearl should pop out of her mouth. We should have all been wearing triple strings down to our knees within a week after she learned to talk."
There is that august tribunal over which at one time reigned Scott's genial friend Ballantyne, succeeded by the sententious Tait, himself a man of taste and a collector, and since presided over by the great Nisbet, whose hand has dropped the ensign of office even before the present lot has an opportunity of obtaining from it the crowning honour.
Then, as the trio on the balcony stepped in through the window, he turned suddenly and superlatively scarlet. As has been said, young Nisbet was accustomed to getting what he wanted. In this instance what he had wanted happened to be that the Adjutant should choose him from the guard detail as Colonel's orderly.
Nisbet, but really dinner at seven, you know, and this child must be thinking about dressing. She takes ages!" Mrs. Rathbawne folded her fat hands, and stood waiting, at the conservatory door. Young Nisbet rose. "Of course!" he said. "I'm always so stupid about these things. Good-by, Miss Rathbawne.
Sublimely unconscious of the depression induced by her advent, she continued to talk, as she pulled off her gloves, which were a size too small, and came away with reluctance, leaving imprints of the stitching on her pudgy pink hands. Young Nisbet surveyed her with a kind of mute despair.
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