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His father called on Archibald, Duke of Argyll, an old campaigner with Marlborough. 'My Lord, said the Duke, 'I like your son; this boy must not be shot at for three shillings and sixpence a day. This scene reads like a pre-arranged affair calculated to flatter the erratic Bozzy out of his warlike schemes, for which it is clear he was never fitted.
But, to Jim's intense annoyance, the signal, when translated, seemed to have no meaning, and he realised that the corvette was making a private and pre-arranged signal, which he was, of course, unable to read. "Confound it, Aranjuez!" he exclaimed, angrily, to his second lieutenant, "what are we to do now? I did not anticipate this; and if we are not careful he will take alarm and sheer off.
They came to a grove of big pine trees, which rose two or three feet thick, like church arches, and covered the ground beneath them with a soft, brown carpet. It was a well-known picnic place, and here all the cars were gathering by appointment. Evidently it had all been pre-arranged, with that efficiency which is the pride of 100% Americans.
I I knew enough at last about this man to make him give me a written statement that it was a pre-arranged plan to rob Skarbolov. That would substantiate my story. And" she looked again at Danglar; the man was still crouched there, eying her with that same mad light in his eyes "and he must be made to to do it now for " "But why didn't you ask me?" cried the Adventurer.
Her fears and her difficulties were immediately before him. Her fears, he had no courage, no confidence to attempt the removal of; he listened to them in silent despondence; but her difficulties were instantly obviated, for with a readiness that seemed to speak the occasion, and the service pre-arranged in his mind, he offered himself as the messenger who should fetch Mrs. Dashwood.
How those blinking lights in the well-remembered windows of the Parmly home held Jack's eyes, once he sighted them! Never before in all his life had he felt such a delicious thrill creep over him from head to toe. Knocking on the door he and his chums carried out their pre-arranged plan.
Naturally I am opposed to your pre-arranged marriages and all that sort of thing, but still I appreciate what it means as a safe- guard to the crown you support. I sincerely hope that Robin may find his love-mate in the small circle you draw for him, but I fear it isn't likely. He is young, romantic, impressionable, and he abhors the thought of marriage without love.
'It was evidently pre-arranged, said the latter, after recounting certain details in a tone of confidence. 'I was quite shocked. On his part such conduct is nothing less than disgraceful. Adela, of course, cannot be expected to know. 'I must tell her, was the reply. Adela was sitting rather dreamily in her bedroom a couple of hours later when her mother entered.
According to the official British statements this involved a force of "2970 British troops of all ranks and services and some 6,000 Indian troops and their followers." About one o'clock in the afternoon of April 29, 1916, a pre-arranged signal from the wireless indicated that the wireless had been destroyed.
I followed him with my eyes till he disappeared into the ante-chamber of the monk's cell, and he, blowing his nose three times, gave me the pre-arranged signal that all was right, which was confirmed by the appearance of Lawrence in a few moments afterwards.
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