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In reply Iglesias told her how that morning, the servants failing to get any response to their knocking, the upper part of the house being, moreover, pervaded by a sickening smell of gas, help had been called in; and, de Courcy Smyth's door being forced open, he had been found lying, fully clothed, stark and cold upon his bed, an empty phial of morphia and an empty glass on the table beside him, both gas-jets turned full on though not alight.
That's all I know about him, except that he was transferred to some other battalion than Dinglederry Smyth's. She went over to a table and took a piece of notepaper from a drawer. 'Mr. Selwyn used to belong to the R.A.C., she said quickly. 'Would you do me a favour, Horace dear? He murmured his desire to be of service in any capacity.
Smyth's administration was a period of great prosperity and advancement with the Cleveland schools. The gradation and classification were improved; modes of teaching were introduced which greatly promoted the purposes of education. Through his influence the use of the rod in the schools was to a great extent discontinued, while better order was secured.
In addition to the early celebrities already named, Extreme Carelessness, Michael, Brickbat, Poppy II., Moya Doolan, Straight Tip, and Gaelic have taken their places in the records of the breed, while yet more recent Irish Terriers who have achieved fame have been Mrs. Butcher's Bawn Boy and Bawn Beauty, Mr. Wallace's Treasurer, Mr. S. Wilson's Bolton Woods Mixer, Dr. Smyth's Sarah Kidd, and Mr.
"I want to talk to Mr. Norton himself." The clerk spoke into a wrist transmitter. "Mr. Norton, a man to see you." In a few moments a bulbous man came heavily down the aisle, peering through dark tinted glasses at Philon. "Yes?" "I have a very rare first edition of Smyth's Atomic Energy," said Philon, showing the book. Norton adjusted his glasses, then took the book.
It was a walk of about an eighth of a mile to the 'Lodge' a pleasant cottage surrounded by a beautiful garden. "Admiral Smyth's family go to a little church seven hundred years old, standing in the midst of tombstones and surrounded by thatched cottages.
Cape Ann he called from his charming Turkish benefactor, "Cape Tragabigzanda"; the three islands in front of it, the "Three Turks' Heads"; and the Isles of Shoals he simply describes: "Smyth's Isles are a heape together, none neare them, against Acconimticus." This Cape is made by the maine Sea on the one side, and a great bay on the other in the form of a sickle."
But the reference of the present writer was to another production of the great logician, thus spoken of in a quotation from "the accomplished editor of the Hartford 'Courant," to be found in Professor Smyth's introduction: "It has long been a matter of private information that Professor Edwards A. Park, of Andover, had in his possession an published manuscript of Edwards of considerable extent, perhaps two thirds as long as his treatise on the will.
For the pile of letters and circulars lying beside his plate upon the breakfast-table was topped by a note directed in de Courcy Smyth's nervous and irritable hand. Dominic opened it with a curious sense of reluctance. Only last week he had lent the man ten pounds; and here was another demand, couched in terms, too, so bullying, so almost threatening, that Dominic's back stiffened considerably.
"I saw at Admiral Smyth's some excellent photographs of the moon, but in England they have not yet photographed the stars." "If any one wishes to know the customs of centuries ago in England, let him go to Cambridge. "Sitting at the window of the hotel, he will see the scholars, the fellows, the masters of arts, and the masters of colleges passing along the streets in their different gowns.
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