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He wondered if it were not better to retrace his steps and depart hastily without seeing her. "This way," said Fargeas. "We can see through the bushes without being seen, can we not, Sims?" "Yes, doctor." Zilah resigned himself to his fate; and followed the physicians without saying a word; he could hear the panting respiration of Vogotzine trudging along behind him.
"I hearn his third wife married him ter git rid o' him," put in Peter Sims, given to gossip.
Sims, that when any of the boys blew in anywhere the bringing of drinks must be instantaneous and uproarious. Our dinner that night was very quiet. Mr. Purvis drank only water. That, with a little salad, made his meal.
This appears to be a favourite subject with a certain class of their writers, more distinguished for ardour than for judgment. Mrs Margaret Fuller, in her Papers on Literature and Art, is also eloquent on the same theme. Let us first hear Mr Sims. There is in this gentleman's enthusiasm a business-like air which is highly amusing. "Americanism in Literature. This is the right title.
America's destroyer flotilla arrived in British waters in May and immediately co-operated with the British fleet in the patrol of its home waters and the hunt for German submarines. The flotilla was commanded by Vice-Admiral Sims and did effective work from the very start.
Cooper itself could have caused him more astonishment. Then his eyes sought those of Mr. Sims, but that gentleman was gazing tenderly at the gratified but shocked Selina. "How ever did you do it?" inquired Mr. Gunnill. "Came behind him and threw him down," said Mr. Sims, nonchalantly. "He was that scared I believe I could have taken his boots as well if I'd wanted them." Mr.
I ought not to omit to mention another celebrated bookie of that day; he was second only to Crockford himself, and was called "The Librarian." He was also known as "Billy Sims." Billy lived in St. James's Street, in a house which has long since been demolished, and thither people resorted to enjoy the idle, witty, and often scandalous gossip of the time.
In the meantime, with our destroyers working valiantly in the fight against the submarines, Admiral Sims, their commander, had made himself indispensable to the British Admiralty, whose high regard was manifested on June 19, when, as already noted, he was appointed to take charge of operations of the Allied naval forces in Irish waters while the British commander-in-chief was absent for a short period.
Hanslick, the Viennese critic, visited England and heard Sims Reeves singing before crowded houses as he had been doing for forty or fifty years, he remarked, "It is not easy to win the favour of the English public; to lose it is quite impossible." Mme. Grisi made her last appearance in London in 1866 at the theatre she had left twenty years previously, Her Majesty's.
Days lengthened into weeks now and weeks into months and the Essex was still patrolling the North Sea with others of the Grand Fleet composed besides British vessels of an American squadron in command of Vice-Admiral Sims. August passed and September came and still the Germans failed to venture from their fortress of Helgoland and offer battle to the allies. The work became monotonous.
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