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And I should like to know if there is anything in life more bitter than the sense, even momentary, of loss of self-mastery. Well, as I remarked a few moments since, the less I think about it the better, considering my unfortunate peculiarities. I will go and see Miss Penrhyn to-morrow; that will be sufficiently distracting for the present."
He was a man of rapid thought, and these reflections chased each other through his mind much more quickly than I have been able to take them down, and Miss Penrhyn had averted her gaze and was playing nervously with some flowers in a basket on a pedestal beside her.
"Got everyone stirred up, I suppose? Tell me, though, how are people taking it?" "If you mean the public in general," says Mr. Robert, "I think they are bearing up nobly. But your mother and Betty " "By George!" breaks in Penrhyn. "That's so! They might be rather disturbed. I I never thought about them." "Didn't, eh?" says Mr. Robert. "No, you wouldn't.
Shall I go armed?" "She is not my wife, thank God! If she were " "For heaven's sake, Harold, explain yourself. Can it be possible that Miss Penrhyn is like too many other women?" Dartmouth sprang to his feet, his face white to the lips. "How dare you say such a thing?" he exclaimed. "If it were any other man but you, I'd blow out his brains."
A railway conveys the slate about six miles, to the shores of the Menai Straits; and upwards of 70,000 tons of slate are annually exported, the income derived from them being 250,000 pounds per annum. They are the property of the noble owner of the magnificent Penrhyn Castle.
I notice a great interest in all beautiful materials throughout the pages of this journal; the kind of wood used for the suites of furniture is invariably mentioned, as, for example, the chairs of solid ebony in the dining-room at Penrhyn Castle, the old oak in the dining-room at Trelacre, and the light oak in the drawing-room, the carved oak ceilings and pillars at Penrhyn, and the use of stone from St.
But although I did not know that I was in the vault at Rhyd-Alwyn, and that my name was Weir Penrhyn, I knew that I was laid out as a corpse, and that the dead were about me. Child as I was, it seemed to me that I must go frantic with the horror of the thing, stretched out in that ghastly place, a storm roaring about me, bound hand and foot, unable to cry for help.
She started sharply, but rose to her feet and put out her hand: "Good-bye," she said. He lifted her hand to his lips, then the portière fell behind him and she was alone. He went directly to the ball-room and asked Hollington to present him to Miss Penrhyn.
South, the: Emerson's preaching tour, 53; Rebellion, 305, 407. Southerners, in college, 47. Sparks, Jared, literary rank, 33. Spenser, Edmund: stanza, 335, 338; soul making body, 391; mother-wit, 404. Spinoza, influence, 173, 380. Spirit and matter, 100, 101. Spiritualism, 296. Sprague, William Buel, Annals of the American Pulpit, 10-12. Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, on American religion, 414.
"But this method would be so thoroughly cold-blooded, heartless," protests Mr. Robert. "Wouldn't stop Whitey, though," says I. "Then we must do our best to find Penrhyn," says he. "Sure!" says I. "Sleuth stuff. How about startin' at his rooms and interviewin' his man?" "Good!" says Mr. Robert. "We will go there at once." We did.
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