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Next came the retired ship-masters, living in villas named after their last commands, and skippers still at sea, their wives watching each other like cats at church on Sunday. Then, in tiny semi-detached brick boxes up narrow streets behind all these you would find mates and engineers packed like sardines. Their families, I mean.
And she ran to the open window, crying "Hi!" to the driver of a taxi-cab, who, having put down his fares, was just on the point of starting from the door of the small semi-detached house in a South Kensington street, which owned Arthur and Doris Meadows for its master and mistress. The driver turned at her call. "Hi! Stop! You've been over-paid!"
'It's a cheerful wilderness, and it hasn't the knack of altering much, Dick thought, as he tramped from the Docks westward. 'Now, what must I do? The packed houses gave no answer. Dick looked down the long lightless streets and at the appalling rush of traffic. 'Oh, you rabbit-hutches! said he, addressing a row of highly respectable semi-detached residences.
His luck had turned at last: he was going to succeed; he felt it in the air, as if he were already fanned by Fortune's pinions. Still thinking of Sylvia, he let himself into the semi-detached, old-fashioned house on the north side of Vincent Square, where he had lodged for some years. It was nearly twelve o'clock, and his landlady, Mrs. Rapkin, and her husband had already gone to bed.
If Clara Newell could have seen Tom Peters carrying on with Polly in the passage, she might have felt justified in her prejudice against him. It must be confessed, though, that Everard also carried on with Polly. Alas! it is to be feared that men are much of a muchness where women are concerned; shabby men and smart men, bank managers and journalists, bachelors and semi-detached bachelors.
It was one of the oldest houses in the street, and though bullied into insignificance by sundry detached and semi-detached villas opposite palaces occupied by reckless persons who think nothing of paying sixty or even sixty-five pounds a year for rent alone it kept a certain individuality and distinction because it had been conscientiously built of good brick before English domestic architecture had lost trace of the Georgian style.
Wilkins, directing her to take charge of the office, of Bessie Kraker, and the office-boy, and the negotiations with the Comfy Coast Building and Development Company regarding the planning of three rows of semi-detached villas.
Boudru's home was in a portion of our line in which the defence trenches were of the semi-detached type they did not join up with the other part of the line, and at times the place was distinctly unhealthy.
"You would not like to live in a semi-detached villa on the Southampton Road, would you, my dear Pamela?" asked the Captain. "I might die in a semi-detached house, Conrad. I'm sure I could not live in one," she exclaimed piteously. "Then, my love, we must make a tremendous effort and save all we can before your daughter comes of age, or else we shall assuredly have to leave the Abbey House.
A strong wind was blowing and it was hard to land or come aboard. Till 2 p.m. I remained glued to the telephone on board and then went ashore and saw both Hunter-Weston and d'Amade in their posts of command. The live long day there were furious semi-detached fights by Battalions and Brigades, and we butted back the enemy for some 200 or 300 yards. So far so good.
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