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He replied that he had, a herd of thirty-two of them, counting the calves, but that they were over the Oliphant's River about five-and-twenty miles away, in a valley between some outlying hills and the rugged range of mountains, beyond which was situated Sekukuni's town. Moreover, in proof of his story he showed me spoor of the beasts heading in that direction which was quite a week old.
He goes down every week. I wonder where Mr. Oliphant's son can be?" Mrs. Edwards took in every word avidly while she ate. But she let the conversation drift off to Quogue, their acquaintances, and the difficulty of shopping in the summer. "Well, I must be going to get the train," exclaimed Mrs. Leicester at last.
To tell the truth, that poor gentleman would have given a finger off his hand for the chance, and retired to his room very dejected about the whole business so dejected that he fidgeted about his room a good while before he noticed a note addressed to himself, in Captain Oliphant's hand, lying on the table. He opened it and read
Oliphant's old-fashioned and charming novels and to speak of Petrograd as already "A Beleaguered City" beleaguered, moreover, in very much the same sense as that other old city was. From the very beginning of the war Petrograd was isolated isolated not by the facts of the war, its geographical position or any of the obvious causes, but simply by the contempt and hatred with which it was regarded.
"Thanks, Brandram. Come again soon." Captain Oliphant's concern at this untoward misadventure may well be imagined. He shed tears with the mother over their "dear one's" narrow escape, and censured in terms of righteous indignation all who had been parties to the hazardous expedition.
It is most wrong and most prejudicial to the real interests of the Faith that they should be tempted to put on a hypocritical profession in order to secure thereby the advantages of abnormal protection. Mr. Oliphant's 'Narrative' contains an interesting account of the places which he visited in the execution of this mission. Bruce, Robert, and Frederick, his three sons.
I am glad she will marry' I think she tried to say a name, but I could not catch it tell her to marry him, and that I am very glad." A sob broke from Maggie Oliphant's lips. "You might have told me before!" she said in a choked voice. THE great event of the term was to take place that evening. The Princess was to be acted by the girls of St.
Nesbitt, some years ago, read a paper on the subject before the Society of Antiquaries. Formerly there was in Venice another chair of St. Peter, of which there is a sketch from a photograph in Mrs. Oliphant's "Makers of Venice." Fragments only now remain, and these are preserved in the Church of St. Pietro, at Castello.
Now it was on the younger generation of the Kembles that the Queen bestowed her gracious countenance. These were halcyon days for society as well as for the stage, when, in Mrs. Oliphant's words, "the Queen was in the foreground of the national life, affecting it always for good, and setting an example of purity and virtue.
No one has ventured to dramatize Laurence Oliphant's brilliantly humorous "Autobiography of a Joint Stock Company" apologies if by slip of memory the title is given at all incorrectly.
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