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If you don't mind I'd like to hear a little more o' your Mr. Vickery. It's safe with me, you see." "Why did Vickery run," I began, but Pyecroft's smile made me turn my question to "Who was she?" "She kep' a little hotel at Hauraki near Auckland," said Pyecroft. "By Gawd!" roared Pritchard, slapping his hand on his leg. "Not Mrs. Bathurst!"
Pritchard, lately executed for murder, had no lack of that invention, which is, as it were, the intellect of the imagination its lowest form. One of the clergymen who, at his own request, attended the prisoner, went through indescribable horrors in the vain endeavour to induce the man simply to cease from lying: one invention after another followed the most earnest asseverations of truth.
The German Ulrici, whose descriptive epithets for Portia are "roguish and intellectual," would doubtless have found his ideal of the part fulfilled in Clive. The Nerissa that night was Mrs. Pritchard, then also thirty years old, but not so famous as she afterward became. Sarah Siddons, to whom the sceptre passed, was only five years old when Woffington died.
Since this was written, they have been taken into the European family by the Treaty of 1856, and the Sultan has become a Knight of the Garter. This strange phenomenon is not for certain to the advantage of their political position. Gibbon. Thornton, ii. 89; Formby, p. 24; Eclectic Rev., Dec., 1828. Pritchard. Cardinal Fisher, in his Assert. Luther.
"Yes, sir," replied Bobby. The judge lowered his voice so that only Bobby could hear. "Do you know who murdered Mr. Pritchard?" "Yes, sir," replied Bobby in the same tone, "I do." "Who was it?" "I don't know his name. He's sitting " "I thought so," interrupted the judge. "Mr. Sheriff," he called sharply. That official approached.
"I caught a bit and a glimpse at a distance just enough to tantalize me." Elsie, who admired Mr. Graham immensely, was seized with sudden diffidence. He was a connoisseur in all matters of art. Suppose he should say right before Miss Pritchard, that she was only a silly tomboy, or whatever such a gentleman would say to express that idea? She glanced irresolutely at Miss Pritchard.
'But what beats me about the stars, he observed plaintively, 'is how we come to know their names. This question, or rather the somewhat similar question, 'How did the constellations come by their very peculiar names? has puzzled Professor Pritchard and other astronomers more serious than Artemus Ward.
Elizabeth smiled, and waved her hand to the solitary figure. "Our friend Mr. Pritchard again," she remarked. "Well, it is really a curious meeting, isn't it? I wonder," she lifted her head to his and her eyes called him closer to hers "have you forgotten everything?" He pointed over the roofs of the houses. His back was to the river and he pointed westward.
He was in the habit of spending the greater part of his time in the public-house, from which he was generally trundled home in a wheel- barrow in a state of utter insensibility. God, however, who is aware of what every man is capable of, had reserved Rees Pritchard for great and noble things, and brought about his conversion in a very remarkable manner.
"Pray tell me why you want to hear it again, if you have such scant respect for it?" Miss Pritchard smiled. "If you must know, child, I want to listen more critically this time. I'm quite sure I must have praised it far above its deserts. And now that I understand the situation I ought to be a better judge." Despite her lightness of tone, Miss Pritchard was really desirous of applying the test.
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