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"One does not dine after a day's travelling." "Won't you have some coffee?" She consented to the coffee, which Alexis John Smedley duly brought in, and presently she was walking lightly to and fro, holding the tiny white cup in her white hand, and peering at the furniture and bric-a-brac by the light of several candles.
His interest in rational topics seemed, "like a fountain's sickening pulse," to flag and ebb away; and though Miss Smedley's ostensible purpose was to take Selina for her usual walk, I can vouch for it that Selina spent her morning ratting, along with the keeper's boy and me; while, if Miss Smedley walked with any one, it would appear to have been with Uncle George.
Smedley told me about the neglected state of the parish, and how few ladies came forward to help?" "But how will you find time?" I remonstrated; though what was the good of remonstrating when Carrie had once made up her mind? "I have the whole of Saturday afternoon, and an hour on Wednesday, and now the evenings are light I might utilize them a little.
About an hour afterwards, the elder of Phineas Duge's secretaries, Robert Smedley, entered the bedroom at the top of the house with some precipitation, and turned a white face towards his master. Phineas Duge, fully dressed, was entering some figures in a small memorandum book on the table before him. "Mr.
From my worthy friend Chapman, during our journey from Lancaster, I learnt the history of the bloody proceedings of the 16th of August, and my soul was struck with horror and indignation by the recital. I returned to Johnson's house at Smedley, although Mr.
"That is Smedley," he said to himself. "Well, I will fulfil my promise, and then break with these fellows for good." He whistled in return, in the same manner, and immediately a youth of about his own age stepped out from the shelter of a hedge. "Well, Jack, I am glad you have come at last," said Smedley; "it's growing late, and the other fellows will be waiting for us down the stream."
Smedley says: "She passed under the control of an intelligent being, opened her eyes, and manifested the greatest amazement." He then relates the subsequent experience as follows: Recalling Past Incidents. When we used to sit by the hearth at night, conversing on various topics that used to interest us so much, we little expected we should ever have such a privilege.
The bar went up to 5 4½, Smedley's jump, and you might have heard a fly cough. We were pretty nervous, I can tell you, and it would have done you good to see Violet standing up and holding her breath. Barnworth was the only chap that didn't seem flurried. Smedley and Marky both looked blue, and poor Froggy looked as if he was going to blubber. "My wig!
"I could not see her, I could not," she went on, excitedly. "I like Miss Ruth; she is so gentle and quiet. But I want no one but you and mother." Mother once very injudiciously, as Uncle Geoffrey and I thought tried to shake this resolution of Carrie's. "Poor Mrs. Smedley seems so very grieved and disappointed that you will not see her, my dear.
His tongue was tipped with fire and his pen with vitriol. Looking about him for a worthy antagonist, he singled out Smedley, M.D., a local practitioner given over to two ideals sanitation and reform. Needless to say, for sanitation and reform Tyson cared not a hang. It was a stand-up fight between the man of facts and the man of letters.
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