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He bowed, first to the woman, then to Schuyler. He was a proud man a strong man. It hurt him to lose and the more because the stake had been so great.... He passed across the room, and through the door, closing it behind him. Upon the woman, still laughing in the delight of her success, Schuyler rounded. There was in his heart, too, a great bitterness a great hurt.
And Parks, wondering, puzzled and, perhaps, a bit perturbed watched the pilot swing down the Jacob's ladder, and make across the water toward his craft, with wonderment, puzzlement, perturbation no bit abated. Schuyler paced the deck all that day. Lunch he did not touch. Dinner found him undesirous of food.
"But what about that 5 per cent. which I suppose you want to give your roulette teacher?" he went on, with apparent carelessness. "I want to give her more," Mary confessed, with that soft obstinacy which people found difficult to combat. But Schuyler had weapons for padded barricades. He turned to Madeleine. "I'm certain that Madame will refuse to accept more," he said. She faced him defiantly.
In the matter of fresh flowers, she was like a child, Win said, and she enjoyed the blossoms she ordered as if she had hungered for them for years. Winnie was growing deeply attached to her employer, if that word is applicable, and Ruth Schuyler was fond of Win. But I am digressing. Mrs.
I told him that, through Sir George, I had placed my poor services at the State's disposal. "You mean the rebel State's disposal?" "Yes, sir." "Then you are ready to enlist?" "Quite ready, Sir Lupus." "Only awaiting summons from Clinton and Schuyler?" he sneered. "That is all, sir." "And what about your properties in Florida?" "I can do nothing there.
They are charming young people. See, there are Tom and Katrina now, just turning into the field." Von Rittenheim raised his hat as Mrs. Schuyler waved her hand to Mrs. Carroll, and studied critically the bride's radiant face and pretty gown as the victoria followed the phaeton through the opened fence-rails.
But she realized my thraldom, my lonely, unhappy life, and knew that I was pining away for want of the simple innocent pleasures that my youth and light-hearted nature craved. I used to beg and plead for permission to have a few young friends or to be allowed to go to a few parties or plays. But Mr. Schuyler kept me as secluded as any woman in a harem.
Schuyler Van Tassell, of Tarrytown, another bird of passage, who had left her country-seat on the Hudson to spend the winter months in what she called the delights of "upper-tandem." She belonged to an ancient family or, at least, her husband did he was under the sod, poor soul, and therefore at peace and, having inherited his estate a considerable one was to be treated with every distinction.
Schuyler, waist deep in a swooping sea, did not hear... The Long Island shore was close at hand now. Suddenly Blake shouted: "Hard a lee!" and jammed the tiller over; Schuyler, on the after overhang, scrambled fast to take in the slack of the sheet. Kathryn Blair bent, to avoid the swinging boom. The little boat swung about as though on a pivot.
Organisation had proceeded throughout the province, whose entire rebel force was commanded by Mr. Philip Schuyler, of Albany; subordinate to whom was Mr. Richard Montgomery, an Irish gentleman who had first set foot in America at Louisbourg, as a king's officer, and who now resided beyond Kingsbridge.
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