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Met half a dozen in general." "You know the man I mean the tall fellow, with a scar on his chin." "Oh, that fellow? I think his name is Nolly. He's a book agent, and I promised to buy some histories from him," and Baxter pretended to yawn, as if he was not especially interested. "You are not telling the truth, Baxter," answered Tom, undaunted by this show of nerve.
"Say, who told you that?" he demanded fiercely and caught Tom by the arm. "Let go of me, Dan Baxter." "I say, who told you that?" "I heard his name in the woods. He was with the man who robbed my brother Dick of his watch, when we were at home." "Stuff and nonsense!" growled the bully, but he was very pale, and his voice shook with emotion. "That man's name is William Nolly.
But, as stated before, Buddy and Nolly had made good use of their time, and no trace of them was to be found. "They have skipped out," said Mr. Laning. "To look for them will be worse than looking for spiders in a corn stack. I suppose you'll be getting back to Putnam Hall now?"
"I'm not positive, but when I met him and the thief in the woods, the thief, who was called Buddy, started to call that fellow Baxter, but the tall man wouldn't have it, and made him call him Nolly. His right name, I feel certain, is Arnold Baxter." "Then, if he isn't Baxter's father, he must be some close relative, otherwise he wouldn't give Baxter that money.
James's coffee-house, the proposition was made that each member present should write an epitaph on Goldsmith, and Garrick started with: Here is Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, and talked like poor Poll. Later, Goldsmith retaliated with epitaphs on his circle of club friends. His list of discriminating pictures was not complete when he died.
Entering by the back way, she tapped softly with the key at one of the cell-doors, and listened. There was no sound within: so she coughed and listened again. Still there was no reply: so she spoke. 'Nolly, dear? murmured Nancy in a gentle voice; 'Nolly?
He had scarcely reached his hiding-place before he heard the booming of the alarm-gun at the fort, which thrilled through his bosom with a joyful sound and gave a fresh impulse to all his energies, as it echoed from mountain-top to mountain and glen, on all the forest hills that bordered the then wild Valley of the Mohawk, and seemed to say, "Nolly is safe."
'And always put this in your pipe, Nolly, said the Dodger, as the Jew was heard unlocking the door above, 'if you don't take fogels and tickers 'What's the good of talking in that way? interposed Master Bates; 'he don't know what you mean.
This name has, even now, scarcely grown familiar to the eye and ear, but it proves to have been the real name of Émile Nolly, whose romances of modern life in the Extreme East had been widely read just before the war. Détanger was just thirty-four when the war broke out, and he was one of its early victims, dying at Blainville-sur-l'Eau on September 5.
Drawing her chair close to it, she sat there, for a little time, without speaking; but at length she raised her head, and looked round. 'I don't know what comes over me sometimes, said she, affecting to busy herself in arranging her dress; 'it's this damp dirty room, I think. Now, Nolly, dear, are you ready? 'Am I to go with you? asked Oliver. 'Yes. I have come from Bill, replied the girl.
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