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Smithson rose and crept to the door and quietly opened it. A dark, handsome man, who was a total stranger to Lesbia, glided in, shaking hands with Smithson as he entered. Till this moment Lesbia's whole being had been absorbed in the scene that bitter anathema of the brother, the sister's cry of anguish and shame.
Smithson screwed his lips together and remained silent. "When he feels that it is right and proper for him to come back," pursued Mrs. Phipps, turning her eyes upwards, "he will come. He has left his comfortable home just for my sake, and I shall not forget it." Mr. Smithson coughed-a short, dry cough, meant to convey incredulity.
"Hold your tongue, stoopid!" whispered the nearest man. "You'll be getting yourself in a row." "Look at his flute!" cried Wilkins. "Why, he'd get more music out of a tin whistle than you would out of his. Here, you Smithson, see what you can do with that flute. Now, my lads, once again." Dick took Jones's flute unwillingly for more than one reason.
Langley, the late secretary of the institution, said: "Smithson always seems to have regarded the circumstances of his birth as doing him a peculiar injustice, and it was apparently this sense that he had been deprived of honors properly his which made him look for other sources of fame than those which birth had denied him, and constituted the motive of the most important action of his life, the creation of the Smithsonian Institution."
She says you must make one, too, and that the store detective must be discharged for intolerable insolence." Gilder bounced up from his chair angrily. "I'll be damned if I'll discharge McCracken," he vociferated, glaring on Smithson, who shrank visibly. But that mild and meek man had a certain strength of pertinacity.
Nobody could have for a moment supposed from her manner that she loved Horace Smithson; but nobody had the right to think that she detested him. She accepted all his attentions as a thing of course. The flowers which he strewed beneath her footsteps, the pearls which he melted in her wine metaphorically speaking were just 'good enough' and no more. This afternoon, when Mr.
She liked everybody tolerably; but she had not a talent for friendship. Perhaps it was because in the London season one was too busy to make friends. 'I can fancy two girls getting quite attached to each other, out of the season, she said, 'but in May and June life is all a rush and a scramble 'And one has no time to gather wayside flowers of friendship, interjected Mr. Smithson.
Besides, Marvin and Rafalsky did not care to be included, if they could help it, with Smithson, Rainey, and Beckwith in a sweeping condemnation of Cowperwood. So all five judges fancied they were considering the whole matter rather fairly and impartially, as men will under such circumstances. In the present case it was the province of the jury to ascertain the felonious intent.
I took my faithful steed and I spent many hours, which should have been devoted to selling furniture, decrying the vices of Matters, extolling the virtues of Smithson. Matters got his eye on me. "'He had the other eye on that office. He saw he must make a strong bid for county favor. The easiest way to do that in Mount Mark is to get after a boot-legger.
And all at once it struck me I had hardly thought of it before what an idiot I should be if I let it affect my feelings or behaviour!" "I think no one would have suspected you of such narrowness." "Indeed I hope not! Have you done your letters? Do come up and watch Mrs. Smithson playing at quoits a sight to rout the brood of cares!" In the smoking-room on deck sat Dr.
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