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His name isn't Strange at all." "Ho! ho! What's up?" "Did you ever hear the name of Norrie Ford?" "Good Lord, yes! I can't quite remember Let's see. Norrie Ford? I know the name as well as I know my own. Wasn't that the case why, yes, it must have been wasn't that the case Wayne was mixed up in six or eight years ago?" "Yes, it was." "The fellow gave 'em all the slip, didn't he?" She nodded.
Look round, Norrie, and see for yourself; the mountains over there; and the water rolling up almost to our doors; and the grand roar of the waves in our ears; and those trees yonder; and this field with the sun on it; and the house, though it is a bit of a barrack, yet it is where my forebears were born. Oh, it's the best place on earth; it's O'Shanaghgan, and it's mine!
To those who loved him most that is, to all Lagonda Ledge he was growing handsomer every year, and even with this new expression his countenance wore a more kindly grace than ever before. "Norrie, your uncle was a strange man," Fenneben declared, as he and Elinor sat in the library on the evening of his return. "Naturally, I am unlike my stepbrothers, but I have not even understood them.
Norrie ought to know this, but who am I to say a word?" "Victor Burleigh, won't you release the fair princess from the tower?" a girl's voice called. Vic turned to see Elinor framed in the half-way window of the south turret. And in that dripping shadowy light, no frame could want a rarer picture. "I've fallen into the pit and am far on the road to perdition," Elinor said.
It was useless; she remained hidden. The Unser Fritz was now heading southwest, and "reeling off her ten knots an hour like clockwork," as Norrie put it. The Recife, that enormous barrier reef which blockades hundreds of miles of the Brazilian coast, caused no anxiety to Coke.
And often in this year he had wondered at Lloyd Fenneben's harsh judgment of her. Fondness of luxury seemed foreign to her, and womanly beauty of character made her always "Norrie the beloved." But Victor was true to Fenneben's demands and willing to try to live through the years after, if one year of happy association could be his now.
"Torchy," says he, shakin' me solemn by the hand, "I wish you the best of luck. If you'll take my advice, though, you won't mention this to anyone else." Oh, no, I didn't. That is, only to Norrie Bagby and one or two others that I managed to get a word with on the ride home. Vee was mighty sympathetic about the blisters and the way my back felt.
He requested also that Burgess would never mention this letter to his dear young niece, and he expressly stipulated that Norrie should graduate at Sunrise first. So there was smooth sailing at Sunrise for many months. Elinor was always charming, and Dr.
To a woman's eye he would have seemed the picture of an ideal husband. "Yes, I was in love once. I did n't marry because because I didn't." "How romantic! Was it unrequited, or money, or what?" Norrie asked, eagerly. "Or what," he answered, and her finer sense made her change the subject. "Say, Uncle Lloyd, Uncle Joshua says he wants me to marry." "What's he up to now? Tell me about it."
So they came alongside, under many craning heads of seamen and projecting mouths of guns; so they climbed on board somnambulous, and looked blindly about them at the tall spars, the white decks, and the crowding ship's company, and heard men as from far away, and answered them at random. And then a hand fell softly on Carthew's shoulder. "Why, Norrie, old chappie, where have you dropped from?
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