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Wasn't a bad match. And that was all the comment Reece made on the situation. Gethryn went over to the chapel that morning with an empty sinking feeling inside him. He was quite determined to offer no single word of explanation, and he felt that that made the prospect all the worse. There was a vast uncertainty in his mind as to what was going to happen.
This Welsh-English stock is not soft stuff to manage. When he makes that line with his lips that looks like a red-hot razor edge, his poor wife will wish to leave this earth and take to the bluffs." "You appear to think a great deal about Monsieur Reece Zhone and his future wife," said Angélique mischievously.
The worthy master who presided over these Christmas galas, and had the honor to teach John Sterling his reading and writing, was an elderly Mr. Beyond the Reece sphere of tuition John Sterling did not go in this locality.
"Not exactly," said the new arrival. "Don't you remember a little idiot who was your fag at Harton, and used to boil your eggs hard and burn your toast, for which you very properly corrected him?" "What, Strachan!" cried Captain Reece. "Impossible! You can't be Tom Strachan!" "As sure as you are Dodger Reece. I should not have dared to call you that to your face then, though."
Though at her right sat G. Reece Stoddard, a most desirable and distinguished young bachelor, the all-important left held only Charley Paulson. Charley lacked height, beauty, and social shrewdness, and in her new enlightenment Bernice decided that his only qualification to be her partner was that he had never been stuck with her.
There's Captain Reece overboard and shoving; I must try and get to him. Stand by the rope, men, and haul away like blazes when she shifts."
"Yes, I was; but I soon got all right." "Is not Edwards in your battalion?" "Yes, he is; do you know him?" "Very well; we were at Sandhurst together." And this discovery of a common friend made these two feel like comrades at once. "Well, Strachan," said Reece, coming up, "are you ready to pilot us to- night?" "Perfectly ready, sir," replied Strachan.
Between Needless Alley and the house now occupied by Messrs. Reece and Harris, as offices, were three old-fashioned and rather dingy looking shops, of which I can tell a curious story. Rather more than twenty years ago, the late Mr. Samuel Haines acquired the lease of these three houses, which had a few years to run. The freehold belonged to the Grammar School. Mr. Haines proposed to Messrs.
"He's a good little feller, Percy," she said. "And so he knows your sister. Well, ain't that nice!" Bailey did not reply. And to the feast of reason and flow of soul that went on at the table during the rest of the meal he contributed so little that Miss Reece, in conversation that night with her friend alluded to him, not without justice, first as "that stiff," and, later, as "a dead one."
This Reece fixed upon as the most favourable spot for his mine, and here the gun-cotton was placed in the position he deemed most adapted for a favourable explosion, and connected by a wire, which there was no great delay or difficulty in concealing in the sandy soil with the zereba, and so with the electric battery.
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