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'Do you feel bound to give Poulter the refusal! for if it is really a good instrument, it ought to be worth more than that. 'Poulter has been very good to me. He taught me to play on it, said Lance; 'that is, he showed me a little; but Robin made me lock it up and give her the key all last spring, for fear of hindering my mugging; and I can't touch her now, so she has been very little use to me.
She had no eyes for the dancers, these not interesting her; her attention, of which she had plenty to spare, was fixed upon the kindly, beaming face and the agile limbs of Mr Poulter. It was a pleasure to watch him, he so thoroughly enjoyed his work; he could not take enough pains to instruct his pupils in the steps that they should take. Miss Nippett sat beside Mavis.
He sank into my best armchair, and placed his bag on the floor beside him. "Since we met in the afternoon," he said, "I have written a letter to your dean, expressing the great pleasure I felt in listening to your choir, and at the same time I inclosed a five-pound note, which I begged him to divide among the choir boys and men, from Alexander Poulter, Esq., of Poulter's Pills.
When a move was made to the ballroom, Miss Nippett whispered to Mavis: "If Mr Poulter wins the great cotillion prize competition 'e's goin' in for, I 'ope to stand 'Turpsichor' a clean, and a new coat of paint."
Poulter, have latterly at any rate been in your direction without excesses, of course; but both you and I admit that the Church is ample enough to embrace the other great parties so long as there is agreement in essentials. Unity, unity! Mrs. Mudge's ardour, we must confess, proves her sincerity. Mr. Goacher took another glass of Mrs. Mudge's wine.
I shalt be thankful to see the last of you! and she flung herself out of the room. 'What do you think of that? said Mrs. Poulter. 'It is beyond comment. We cannot remain another night. Mr. Goacher and Miss Taggart agreed, and Miss Taggart was commissioned at once to engage rooms. When she had gone Mr. Goacher was compelled to explain that he was in a difficulty. 'Of course, my dear Mrs.
The young dog calculated the effect as well as if he had been a philosopher. "Well," said Mr. Poulter, with still deeper gravity, "you must keep it out of sight, you know." "Oh yes, I'll keep it under the bed," said Tom, eagerly, "or else at the bottom of my large box." "And let me see, now, whether you can draw it out of the sheath without hurting yourself."
Mudge, you forget that there is hardly enough to go round. For my part, though, I care nothing about it. 'If I had thought you did, Mrs. Poulter, I am sure I should not have dared to ask for it. 'I believe, said Miss Taggart, 'that the office of fat in diet is to preserve heat.
Poulter, she heard, and to her amazement, she found that Gillian and Mysie, as well as their brothers, had Latin lessons in the dining-room with the curate. The two girls and Fergus only went to him every other day, Wilfred every day, as Gillian was learning Greek and mathematics. What was Dolores to do? 'Have you done any Latin, my dear? asked her aunt. 'Not yet.
The poor landlady, habitually crushed by the anticipation of quarter-day into fear of contradiction or offence, flamed up with sudden passion. 'Sir, she cried, 'Helen is my friend, my dearest friend. How dare you! you a clergyman! I let you and Mrs. Poulter know that she is as pure and good as you are yes, and a thousand times better than you are with your hateful insinuations.
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