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Now I am punished, as the wicked always are, punished over and over again. Why did I do it? Why? Why?" Here a look of terror came into her eyes; these looked helplessly about the room, as if nothing could save her from the torment that pursued her. "He is ill; very ill. His doctor told me. How long do you think he will live?" "Pritchett?" asked Devitt. "Yes, when he came down to Swanage.
Pritchett humbly kept himself in one corner. The lawyer took the head of the table, and broke open the envelope which contained the will with a degree of gusto which showed that the occupation was not disagreeable to him. "Mr. Bertram," said he, "will you not take a chair?" "Thank you, no; I'll stand here, if you please," said George.
It's worth a few grapes and turkeys." And Mr. Pritchett shook his head and wrung his hands; for he saw that nothing he said produced any effect. George went to Hadley at last without ducks or pigeons, grapes or turkeys. He was very much amused however with the perpetual industry of his friend. "Labor omnia vincit improbus" said he to himself.
When the little girls in school asked for the Elsie books, she answered with a glow of pride that the library did not possess one of those silly stories, and offered as substitute, "Greek Myths for Children." Squire Pritchett came, in a great hurry, one morning, and asked for his favorite condensed handbook of geology, in order to identify a stone.
The "great red spot" was first observed by Niesten, Pritchett, and Tempel, in 1878, as a rosy cloud attached to a whitish zone beneath the dark southern equatorial band, shaped like the new war balloons, 30,000 miles long and 7,000 miles across. The next year it was brick-red.
"Good-bye, then, George," said Sir Lionel. "I suppose I shall see you before I leave town. I must say, you have made a bad affair of this will." "Good-bye, Mr. George; good-bye," said Mr. Pritchett. "Make my dutiful compliments to Miss Baker and to the other lady." "Yes, I will, Mr. Pritchett." "Ah, dear! well. You might have had it all, instead of the fishmongers' children, if you had chosen, Mr.
"A beautiful day outwardly, Sir Lionel," sighed Mr. Pritchett. "But the occasion is not comfortable. We must all die, though; all of us, Mr. George." "But we shall not all of us leave such a will as that behind us," said Mr. Stickatit. "Come, gentlemen, are we ready? Shall we sit down?" George got a chair for his father, and put it down opposite to that of Sir Henry's. Mr.
But there remained the journey to Hadley. It had always been his custom to go to Mr. Pritchett in the city before he went to his uncle's house, and he did so now. Everybody who wished to see Mr. Bertram always went to Mr. Pritchett first, and Mr. Pritchett would usually send some avant-courier to warn his patron of the invasion. "Ah, Mr.
Pritchett, not finding him at home, had gone to a neighbouring tavern "to get a bit of dinner," as he told the woman at the chambers; and stated, that he should go on calling till he did find Mr. George. And in this way, on his third or fourth visit, Mr. George was found. Mr. Pritchett was dressed in his best, and was very sad and solemn. "Mr.
So much, in some sort of way, Bertram had learnt before he left Southampton. His first business in London was to call on Mr. Pritchett. "Oh, master George! oh, master George!" began that worthy man, as soon as he saw him. His tone had never been so lachrymose, nor his face so full of woe. "Oh, master George!" Bertram in his kindest way asked after his uncle.
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