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He'll do a great deal less harm trotting round the Reserve braced up against old Ormiston." So Elgin was left to the capable hands of the boys, for the furtherance of the Liberal interest and the sacred cause of imperialism. Mr Farquharson, whose experience was longer and whose nose presumably shorter than the candidate's, never abandoned the Town Ward.
"That was a very good sight in its way," said Mr. Parker, "but we can hardly hope to compete with the sun, my dear: he has all his materials within himself, and we have to pay for them." "Do you know, Miss Ormiston," said Mrs.
Would he, Roger Ormiston, one day, find himself thus weak and broken; his body now so lively a source of various enjoyment degraded into a pest-house, a mere dwelling-place of suffering and corruption? The young man gripped the high, narrow mantel-shelf with both hands and pressed his forehead down between them. He really had not the nerve to watch what was going forward over there any longer.
Are you quite sure, Sir Norman, that you have not?" "Seen him? Don't be absurd, Ormiston! Do you think I could ever forget such a face as that?" "It would not be easy, I confess. One does not see such every day. And yet and yet it is most extraordinary!"
He could be excellent company when he pleased. He had laid aside his roughness of manner and been excellent company to-night. Next him was Ormiston, while the seats immediately below were occupied by the men-servants, Winter at their head. Opposite to Richard, across the chapel, sat Lady Calmady.
Nothing nearly so good at Whitney this autumn. Excellent fellow my head gardener, but rather past his work no enterprise, can't make him go in for new ideas." Mr. Ormiston, leaning across Dr. Knott, addressed himself to Ludovic, while casting occasional and rather anxious glances upon his daughter. Thus did voices rise, mingle, and the talk get fairly upon its legs again.
And you will find it as sweet to look back upon as you have to look forward to," said La Masque, derisively. "If you are wise for yourself, Mr. Ormiston, you will pause here, and give me back that fatal word." "Never, madame! And surely you will not be so pitilessly cruel as to draw back, now?"
Mentally, she bade adieu to all her friends before beginning to prepare for her melancholy fate to her handsome lover, to his gallant friend Ormiston, to her poor nurse, Prudence, and to her mysterious visitor, La Masque. La Masque! Ah! that name awoke a new chord of recollection the casket, she had it with her yet.
And thence, while Ormiston and Mary sauntered slowly on ahead, the men Winter in mufti, oblivious of plate-cleaning and cellarage, and the onerous duties of his high estate, Stamp, the water-bailiff, and Moorcock, one of the under-keepers had carried him across the great green levels.
Forgive a biblical form of address a reminiscence merely of my father's morning ministrations to my unmarried sisters, the footmen, and the maids. He reads them the most surprising little histories at times, which make me positively blush but that's a detail. To account for my invasion of your idyllic solitude I learned incidentally you proposed coming here from Ormiston this week.
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