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There was encouragement in the thought that he knew the number in Great Titchfield Street; was aware that she walked thence to Praed Street. And each evening on the way home a straw hat temporarily imposed upon her, a tall boyish figure and an eager method of walking deceived. At Praed Street, Mrs.
For it implies a too low estimate of what is fresh and strong and of real merit in the independent life of the nation. Colonists need a little more of the philosophic and common-sense spirit which can look upon deficiencies and crudities merely as phases in the natural evolution of society in a new land. This is what Mrs. Praed has endeavoured to teach in some of her stories.
Well, it's this way and I'll begin at the beginning." The old gentleman sat in an attitude of patient and watchful attention while Purdie, occasionally prompted and supplemented by Lauriston, told the whole story of the Praed Street affair, from Lauriston's first visit to the pawnshop up to the events of that morning.
"For the moment," protested Henry Douglass, "I find myself wishing, dear, that you were not quite so sensible. We will talk about this again, won't we? Let me call at Praed Street." "Rather you didn't," said Gertie, "if you don't mind, because I shall never change my decision. And I wish I could explain how sorry I am it hasn't all come right." She looked up at him with tears in her eyes.
Praed to the North American Review in 1890. 'Analysis, not action, she notes as the prevailing characteristic of the fiction produced by female writers, 'as it is also of our modern social life. But, 'to dissect human nature under its society swathings needs, she adds, 'the skill of a Balzac or a Thackeray, while the feminine counterpart of a Balzac or a Thackeray is difficult to find.
But they certainly seem to me to fail in redeeming their dose of rancor and misrepresentation by any sufficient evidence of genius such as, to my taste, saves not only the party journalism in verse and prose of Swift and Canning and Praed on one side, but that of Wolcot and Moore and Sydney Smith on the other.
A very precocious child, he was at first privately educated, but entered Trinity College, Cambridge, at the age of eighteen. Here he fell in with a set somewhat but not much less distinguished than that of the famous time, about ten years later, of which Tennyson was the centre a set the most brilliant member of which, besides Macaulay, was the poet Praed.
Queensland, the scene of Mrs. Praed's colonial experience and the 'Leichardt's Land' of her stories, differs notably from the rest of Australia only in climate; its social and political conditions are essentially the same in character as those in the rest of the country. Like several of her heroines, Mrs. Praed alternated life in the country with the gaieties of the capital.
The transactions were carried out in his name. It was he, chiefly, who conducted them he was as good and keen a judge of diamonds as any man I ever knew and no one here was aware that I was concerned in them. I never went to his shop in Praed Street but twice if it was absolutely necessary for him to see me, we met in the City, at a private office which I have there.
"Don't, please, think I'm asking idle and purposeless questions," she said. "Have you been long in London?" "A few days only," answered the stranger, readily enough. "Have you read of what's already called the Praed Street Murder in the papers?" continued Zillah. "Yes I read that," the stranger said, his face growing serious. "The affair of the old man the pawnbroker with the odd name. Yes!"
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