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To Oswald's tense perception the general tenor is along severely orthodox lines, but as to occult verities the style appears flippantly superficial. Many comments upon "rewards of virtue" and "refined craft in uprightness" seem gayly ironical. Such jar upon Oswald's strained sense. Still that larger, if not better, view makes him less exacting.
That's better, thought Randolph, watching. No more of this "miracle" nonsense. It was barely 10:00 a.m. next morning when Randolph's phone rang. "Randolph, here," he said, and heard Oswald's voice without preliminary. "They've gone." "Who's gone?" "The tenants of the building. Just picked up their duds and left. I've put dicks on the case, and one family has moved in with relatives in the Bronx.
She received her husband's nephew with the friendly, yet dignified, bearing which it was fitting Sir Oswald's wife should display towards his kinsman; and the scrutinizing eyes of the young man sought in vain to detect some secret hidden beneath that placid and patrician exterior. "The woman is a mystery," he thought; "one would think she were some princess in disguise.
As they approached, the inhabitants of the district round Alnwick began to pour into the castle; but orders were issued that all the fighting men should join the force of Sir Robert Umfraville, the sheriff of the district, who was gathering a force to give the Scots battle. "I fear that there is small chance of the Scots making their way hither," Oswald's instructor said, in lugubrious tones.
Corinne feared for the effects of Oswald's grief, which vented itself in torrents of tears, and suffered the bitterest pangs at beholding him in this condition, not perceiving that she herself was as much afflicted as he. "Yes," said he, stretching his hand to her, "dear friend of my heart, thy tears are mingled with mine.
This argument of Oswald's was so strong and powerful his arguments are often that, as I daresay you have noticed that the others agreed. It was Oswald, too, who showed his artless brothers why they had much better not take the deserted perambulator home with them.
EDINBURGH, Dec. 7th, 1786, HONOURED SIR, I have paid every attention to your commands, but can only say what perhaps you will have heard before this reach you, that Muirkirklands were bought by a John Gordon, W.S., but for whom I know not; Mauchlands, Haugh Miln, etc., by a Frederick Fotheringham, supposed to be for Ballochmyle Laird, and Adam-hill and Shawood were bought for Oswald's folks.
When on board Oswald discards his long duster and broad brim. No one recognizes in his dignified air of indifference the personnel of that drooping pedestrian who had electrified onlookers with such skillful sledge-hammer blows, so disastrous to bully insolence and official conceit. Gradually Oswald's tense faculties relax, and an overwhelming reactive despondency takes possession of his being.
Millbank, moving. 'I thought, sir, being here only for a day, and as a friend of your son Mr. Millbank stopped and said, 'Oh! a friend of Oswald's, eh? What, at Eton? 'Yes, sir, at Eton; and I had hoped perhaps to have found him here. 'I am very much engaged, sir, at this moment, said Mr. Millbank; 'I am sorry I cannot pay you any personal attention, but my clerk will show you everything. Mr.
She spent that night in my room, nursing a sick old man, who was mad with the tortures of rheumatic gout, and weeping over Sir Oswald's refusal to believe in her innocence. "You'll ask, perhaps, how she came to be in my apartments on that night. I'll answer you in a few words. Before leaving the castle she came to my room, and asked my old servant to admit her.
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