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Whoever will bring the same to Ivy Cottage, shall receive the above Reward. N. B. Nothing more will be offered. Now it so happened that Mrs. Smedley had put an advertisement in the "Times" on her own account, relative to a niece of hers who was coming from the country, and for whom she desired to find a situation.
I will go to her instantly if she desires it. I long to hear that you have had, and that you like, the Memoirs of Mr. Smedley. I am sure that, when Sophy is well enough to hear or to read anything, that book will be the very thing for her. To MRS. EDGEWORTH. TRIM, July 25, 1838. Mrs.
Then he pressed his hat on his head, and putting Helen gently aside, went forth. "Speak to me in future, kind Mrs. Smedley," said Helen, with the air of a housewife. "He is always in study, and must not be disturbed." The landlady a good woman, though she liked her rent smiled benignly. She was fond of Helen, whom she had known of old.
It meant that his house was out of everything in the playing-fields; and that, as for himself, he was as much excluded as his boys. And he confirmed Ainger's opinion that it was utterly useless to appeal further to the doctor. "It would be only fair, sir," said Smedley, "for you to take back the prize and subscription you offered for the sports." "Certainly not, my dear fellow," said the master.
We're paid for it, you know; and besides, we give as good as we take, and that's a consolation." "But what made you come to sea?" asked Jack. "I had no idea you had any fancy that way." "I may ask the same question of you, friend Deane," said Smedley, for it was Jack's old poaching acquaintance.
"Bless me, there is Carrie, deep in conversation with Mr. Smedley. Where on earth has the girl picked him up?" And there, true enough, was Carrie, standing in the porch, talking eagerly to a fresh-colored, benevolent-looking man, whom I knew by sight as the vicar of St. Barnabas.
After that all arrangements were made, and the lawyer decided to stay to see the thing through. It was the most astonishing event in all his life, he assured the company, and not for a fortune would he miss the scene that must accompany the coming of Randolph Carringford. Mr. Smedley also sent a long telegram to that friend of Colin Beverly's who lived on Staten Island.
Smedley to look after things in her absence, and nothing would induce me to forfeit my trust." "You could write to her and say you were not well," I began; but she checked me almost angrily. "I am well, I am quite well; if I long for rest, if the prospect of a little change would be delightful, I suppose I could resist even these temptations.
He opened it cautiously and let in young Smedley, a tall, broad-shouldered young man. "Come in, Smedley," he said shortly. "I have been wanting you." The young man looked straight across at Virginia, still stretched upon the floor, and he took a quick step in her direction. "What did you find was the matter with Miss Longworth, sir?" he asked. "Is she ill?"
Carringford proceeded to shake hands with the lawyer, after greeting Mrs. Parmly effusively. There was a smile as of triumph on his sallow face. "Glad to find you here in Bridgeton, Mr. Smedley," Randolph again said, his voice like oil and his manner confident and condescending. "I received the notification from you when over in France working in a secret capacity for the Government."
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