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Pett at length, with the air of a man who has been solving a problem. "It's your red hair that makes you like this, Ann. Your father has red hair, too." Ann laughed. "It's not my fault that I have red hair, uncle Peter. It's my misfortune." Mr. Pett shook his head. "Other people's misfortune, too!" he said. London brooded under a grey sky.
He picked one up at random and opened it. He threw it down disgustedly. It was poetry. This man Pett appeared to have a perfect obsession for poetry. One would never have suspected it, to look at him.
Pett by water to view Wood's masts that he proffers to sell, which we found bad, and so to Deptford to look over some businesses, and so home and I to my office, all our talk being upon Sir J. M. and Sir W. B.'s base carriage against him at their late being at Chatham, which I am sorry to hear, but I doubt not but we shall fling Sir W. B. upon his back ere long.
The sudden silence had the effect of emphasising the strange noise and rendering it more distinct, thus enabling it to carry its message to one at least of the listeners. Mrs. Pett, after a moment of strained attention in which time seemed to her to stand still, uttered a wailing cry and leaped for the door.
"Hush!" said Ruth softly. "I had no such thought." "And if you had, you would not have cared," said Diana, eyeing her again long and steadily. "Mamma you really must forgive mamma. If you knew them, there was never a Pett that was not impayable. Mamma spoke of asking your price. . . . As if, for any price, he would give you up!" "I have no price to ask, of him or of any one."
Coventry and Sir John Minnes, and then to the Duke, and after he was ready, to his closet, where I did give him my usual account of matters, and afterwards, upon Sir J. Minnes' desire to have one to assist him in his employment, Sir W. Pen is appointed to be his, and Mr. Pett to be the Surveyor's assistant. Mr.
But now she felt afraid. This new Peter intimidated her. To this remarkable metamorphosis in Mr. Peter Pett several causes had contributed. In the first place, the sudden dismissal of Jerry Mitchell had obliged him to go two days without the physical exercises to which his system had become accustomed, and this had produced a heavy, irritable condition of body and mind.
Now this Eurasian girl had been strangled with a silk handkerchief and if that handkerchief could only have been traced to Pett, she'd have been found guilty. But, as I said, she was found not guilty and she left her place at once and evidently returned to England. That's all, sir." "Stobb has a matter that might be mentioned," said Carfax, glancing at the other inquiry agent.
"I never expected you would receive me like this. I thought I must have made myself rather unpopular." Mr. Pett buried the past with a gesture. "When did you land?" he asked. "This morning. On the Caronia . . ." "Good passage?" "Excellent." There was a silence. It seemed to Jimmy that Mr.
Wiles had some beer and ale brought me, and a good piece of roast beef from somebody's table, and eat well at two, and after dinner into the garden to shew Creed, and I must confess it must needs be thought a sorrowful thing for a man that hath taken so much pains to make a place neat to lose it as Commissioner Pett must now this.
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