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"Why, yes; but Miss Eleanor for I remember her before she was married at all, when they lived at the hospital " "At the hospital?" "Hiram's hospital, sir. He was warden, you know. You should go and see the hospital, sir, if you never was there before. Well, Miss Eleanor, that was his youngest, she married Mr Bold as her first. But now she's the dean's lady." "Oh; the dean's lady, is she?"
He would smile incredulously and make you a little bow. I can see him do it." "You are too hard on him, Chiltern." "He has been too hard on me, I know. Is Violet Effingham still in Grosvenor Place?" "No; she's with Lady Baldock." "That old grandmother of evil has come to town, has she? Poor Violet! When we were young together we used to have such fun about that old woman."
Eagerly, expectantly, every one waited for the sport to begin. Our projectiles were immense balls of hollow steel, filled with high explosive of tremendous power. They were fired from a small gun, placed, usually, in the first line of reserve trenches. A dull boom from the rear warned us that the game had started. "There she is!" "See 'er? Goin' true as a die!" "She's go'n' to 'it!
You shall know who I am, since it is only a question of to-night or to-morrow at the most. Sally, you can go." Sally looked from one to the other with sharp, suspicious old eyes. "Won't the young lady want me, sir? Is she able to 'tend to herself?" "Quite able, Sally; she's not so bad as you think. Go away, like a good soul. I have a soothing draught to administer to my patient."
She wears a red-and-white dress, and she has no children of her own and can't abide other folkses'." "That's her," said Martha. "Well, she's put all her trust in riches, and you see how she's served. They say the diamonds and things was worth thousands of pounds. There was a necklace and a river whatever that is and no end of bracelets; and a tarrer and ever so many rings.
"Are you sure she's the same ship?" asked Roderick, when his amazement let him speak. "Am I sure that my voice comes out of my throat?" said the old fellow testily. "Did you ever see but one hull shaped like that? And now she signals." So rapidly had she drawn towards us that she was, indeed, then within gun-shot of us.
And even if you'd marry Seth Bede, as is a poor wool-gathering Methodist and's never like to have a penny beforehand, I know your uncle 'ud help you with a pig, and very like a cow, for he's allays been good-natur'd to my kin, for all they're poor, and made 'em welcome to the house; and 'ud do for you, I'll be bound, as much as ever he'd do for Hetty, though she's his own niece.
"She's in some detestable hurry to get up this way, that's flat," he said; "where she is, the channel out of the harbor is not forty feet wide." By this time the rest of the party were gathered behind us on the high side of the boat, in different stages of excitement, scrutinizing the smoke. Mr.
"I don't want to talk I've done all that I won't say a word but I want to be here. You think you know her better than I do because you're younger but you don't. We've lived right here together she's been my chum for twenty-five years, and I know things about her you don't know. She's wilful, she's as wild as a hawk but she can't hold out, she hasn't it in her."
O'Mara, at the sight of his tired, unhappy young face, sobered down with one of her quick Irish transitions. "Ah, sure now it's the best of news. The doctor's been, and he says she's better. So it won't be necessary to send after the old aunt or cousin or whatever, that ye say she wasn't crazy over. Come in an' see her."
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