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Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett. Griffin and Minchin's The Life of Robert Browning. Chesterton's Robert Browning. Sharp's Life of Browning. Symons's An Introduction to the Study of Browning. Foster's The Message of Robert Browning. Orr's A Handbook to the works of Robert Browning. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, A Memoir, by his son. Lyall's Tennyson.
I can't explain it. Nobody seems to know anything about her, except that she's from Boston and seems to have heaps of money." Jim was wiping his hands on the roller-towel behind the door. "I had a chance to annex a little more of Miss Orr's money today," he observed grimly. "But I haven't made up my mind yet whether to do it, or not." Fanny laughed and shrugged her shoulders.
Fanny had heard these various views of Miss Orr's conduct. She was still striving with indifferent success to rise above her jealousy, and to this end she never failed to champion Lydia's cause against all comers. Curiously enough, this course had finally brought her tranquillity of a sort and an utter unprotesting acquiescence. Mrs. Whittle had been overheard saying to Mrs.
One sees the "sea like an unbroken mirror all around the pine-girt, lonely shores of Orr's Island," and straightway comes "the heavy, hollow moan of the surf on the beach, like the wild, angry howl of some savage animal."
She was aware of the distinction she had already acquired in the eyes of Brookville from the mere fact of Lydia Orr's presence in her house. "If I do," she began cautiously, "I don't know as it's for me to say." "Don't fer pity's sake think I'm nosey," besought Abby Daggett almost tearfully.
He mentally resolves to study the child as minutely as possible, without betraying that he has any particular reason for being interested in him. Therefore, in the latter part of this mild November afternoon, which he has devoted to pastoral visiting, about two months after the funeral, he steps into his little sail-boat, and stretches away for the shores of Orr's Island.
One of that description was engaged after Orr's resignation was received, but he was driven off in a few weeks by an attack of fever and ague, which nearly shook him to atoms. Another, of more doubtful character, was subsequently engaged, but he was found by the attorney tipsy before eleven o'clock in the forenoon.
There is no more faithful portrayal of New England life than that which Mrs. Stowe gives in "The Pearl of Orr's Island." For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the publishers, A. L. BURT COMPANY, 52-58 Duane St., New York. Good Fiction Worth Reading.
Again came the long, mellow notes of the big engine, whistling a crossing. "Who's that?" said Alex suddenly, half turning from the window. The next moment with a cry of "He's at the station! Orr's at the Park station!" he darted to the calling instruments, and shot back an answer. The rest rushed after, and crowded about him. "I'm at the Park station," whirled the sounder. "I broke in.
If he has done what you suggest, given you but a portion of the money entrusted to him and altered the figures in the memorandum to suit the amount he brought you, then there is a discrepancy between this act and all the other acts of his life which I find it more difficult to reconcile than you did the two sets of figures in Mr. Orr's handwriting.
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