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He remained, however, a loyal subject of the Queen, and prayed for as speedy a sight of Boxton Park, Witham, Essex, as fortune would permit. And in the meantime he enjoyed such makeshift pleasures as came his way. Among these was that of leaving his card at several good houses the card of Arthur Gerald Scodd-Paston. People met him at functions as Mr.
"Well, here it is finally Saltonstall, Scamperdown, Scodd-Paston." Rosy bent her head and studied the large gilt volume with redoubled vigor. "It's pretty near the end, after all." Rosy sat at a desk in a big new granite building to one side of a small park.
As for David Marshall himself, he employed the rest of the summer in a laborious attempt to form the acquaintance of his coming son-in-law. Scodd-Paston presented to him an assemblage of qualities towards whose scheduling and comprehending he received but little help from his familiarity with the ordinary workaday type of local young man.
"I don't suppose it's here." But it was. "'General Sir John-George-Alexander Scodd-Paston, that's a pretty good name," thought the girl "'born in 1835; entered Life Guards in 1855; married in 1857 to Mary-Victoria, dau. of James, Lord Lyndhurst' I wonder if she was of higher rank than he. Oh, here we come to his own.
Scodd-Paston, but most of them found his name rather a large mouthful; after they had used it enough times to show that they had caught it and were not unable to wield it, they would dispense with the forepart and use the Paston alone.
"Don't know," said Jane. "These new young men are getting to be too many for me." "Well, then, I'll tell you. It's Arthur Paston." "Arthur Scodd-Paston?" asked Jane, contributing a conscientious hyphen to the name and a laborious accent to the forepart of it. "Why, he doesn't look so very hateful and supercilious." "Oh, he's never that. He's a nice enough fellow.
Around her people fluttered leaves, or put books back on their shelves, or carried on the cataloguing of a large and but half-arranged library. But Rosy gave heed to none of this. "Scodd-Paston," she said; "here's a whole paragraph." And she buried herself in it at once. She had begun with the Queen and the royal family and the order of precedence.
He lives here. We thought we had Americanized him; but now he has slipped back and is almost as bad as he was to start with. Arthur Scodd-Paston that's the way his cards read to-day. Do you care for paintings?" "Of course. Is Arthur Scodd-Paston like one?" "You bad girl! Well, we might just stick our noses in the picture-gallery for a minute.
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