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"No, Captain Nichol," said the banker, gravely and sadly, "I've no questions to ask. Good-by for the present." Nichol nodded a careless dismissal and resumed his reminiscences with Jackson, whose eager curiosity and readiness to laugh were much more to his mind. Following the noise made by closing the door, Helen's voice rang up from the hall below, "Papa!"
Lecky's reminiscences The question of the Irish Church The Independence of Belgium Lord John on the claims of the Vatican Letters to Mr. Chichester Fortescue His scheme for the better government of Ireland Lord Selborne's estimate of Lord John's public career Frank admissions As his private secretaries saw him.
"Ranz des Vaches," said Medora: "a sort of thing the Alpine what's-his-name sings." "It's for atmosphere," said Bond, on the defensive. "Let the pasture furnish its own atmosphere. And you had something about a certain breed of cattle near Rome Rome, was it?" "Roman Campagna. Travel reminiscences." "Travel is a mistake," declared Abner. "So it is," broke in Clytie.
On the ensuing evening a much greater number attended. Altogether the demonstration, in numbers, was a failure. Griswold's Republican Court, page 350. Old New York, or Reminiscences of the past Sixty Years, pages 115-119, inclusive. Hamilton's Works, v. 566. Life of Washington, v. 164.
There was something of the immutable quality of eternity in the slow moments of his complete restfulness. He was very quiet and easy amongst his vivid reminiscences which he mistook joyfully for images of an undoubted future. He cared for no one.
"Oh, yes," said Fanny, "I am sure only a lady could have written anything so sweet as that about flowers in a sick-room; it so put me in mind of the lovely flowers you used to bring me one at a time, when I was ill at Cape Town." There was no more sense to be had after those three once fell upon their reminiscences.
'Oh, I mean she has refused him once, just for form's sake; but he knows very well she means to have him. People of your kind don't do that sort of thing, do they? 'I hardly know, Emmeline replied, colouring a little at certain private reminiscences. 'And am I to understand that you wouldn't on any account listen to Mr. Bowling? Louise laughed.
Gaston fell into reminiscences of wild game, and talked intelligently, acutely of her work. He must wait, she said, until the performance closed, and then she would show him the animals as a happy family. Thus a half-hour went by. Meanwhile, Meyerbeer had asked the manager to take him to Mademoiselle; but was told that Victorine never gave information to journalists, and would not be interviewed.
She looked back regretfully to the old Marche des Innocents, which the new central markets had supplanted. She would talk of the ancient rights of the market "ladies," and mingle stories of fisticuffs exchanged with the police with reminiscences of the visits she had paid the Court in the time of Charles X and Louis Philippe, dressed in silk, and carrying a bouquet of flowers in her hand.
This was made by him to one of the writers a short time ago, when, after an interesting indulgence in reminiscences of old times and early inventions, he leaned back in his chair, and with a broad smile on his face, said, reflectively: "Say, I HAVE been mixed up in a whole lot of things, haven't I?"
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