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Updated: June 21, 2025
She is half frantic at the idea that she must go on tomorrow afternoon and evening; yet the understudy is ill, and she felt it was too short notice to ask you to make a change now. But it occurred to me to come to see you about it. I want to ask you a favor. I want you to let me play Mrs. Penrose's part tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow night.
No doubt the comparative youthfulness of the nation will account for our backward condition in certain respects; but surely it is time to abandon this and every similar plea as an argument against any attempt at progress. We have not space, and for the reasons indicated we see no necessity, to discuss Dr. Penrose's positions in detail.
Penrose's field-glasses, but otherwise they had seen nothing that they could not have seen in Pennsylvania. Mr. Hicks' tales of the bears had aroused their interest to such a point that as soon as the camp site was selected they loaded their cameras and kodaks and set off immediately to get pictures while the light was favourable.
Among the scouts of Penrose's command were fifteen Mexicans, and between them and the American scouts there had existed a feud; when General Carr took command of the expedition uniting it with his own and I was made chief of all the scouts, this feud grew more intense, and the Mexicans often threatened to clean us out; but they postponed the undertaking from time to time, until one day, while we were all at the sutler's store, the long-expected fight took place, and resulted in the Mexicans getting severely beaten.
Jimmy flushed uncomfortably, remembering Lalage; then went hot at the thought of his own folly. He had only spoken to the girl once. Lalage Penrose's flat was on the second floor of a small block of flats in a narrow and grimy street.
And while the man listened to the story of his wife's adventures his mind went back to the scene in Ju Penrose's saloon, and the denial he had flung so heatedly at that philosophic cynic. Dug McFarlane was a picturesque creature. He was big in height and girth. He was also big in mind. And, which was much more important to the people of the Orrville ranching world, big in purse.
As they greeted each other like reunited brothers there was nothing in the manner of either to indicate that they had parted on any but the happiest terms, though Mr. Penrose's gaze wavered for an instant when he asked: "Is my room ready?" "Since the day before yesterday," replied Mr. Cone, turning to the key-rack. Then generously: "What kind of a summer did you have? I trust, a pleasant one."
"I can think of pictures intended to explain their captions," she said. "These picture language-books, the sort we use in the Service little line drawings, with a word or phrase under them." "Well, of course, if we found something like that," von Ohlmhorst began. "Michael Ventris found something like that, back in the Fifties," Hubert Penrose's voice broke in from directly behind her.
General Penrose had left this post three weeks previously with a command of some three hundred men. He had taken no wagons with him and his supply train was composed only of pack mules. General Carr was ordered to follow with supplies on his trail and overtake him as soon as possible. I was particularly anxious to catch up with Penrose's command, as my old friend Wild Bill was among his scouts.
"That's Penrose's family," whispered Mr Donnithorne to his guest. "What! the local's family?" Mr Donnithorne nodded. Soon after, a tall, gentlemanly man ascended the pulpit. The managing director was disappointed. He had come there to hear a miner preach, and behold, a clergyman! "Who is he?" inquired Clearemout. But Mr Donnithorne did not answer.
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