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Her own intimate friends knew that she quite intended to go on the stage, but they were enjoined to say nothing. Consequently John Stanway was one of the few people in Bursley unaware of the definiteness of Milly's private plans; Leonora was another. Leonora sometimes felt that Milly's assertive and indestructible vivacity must be due to some specific cause, but Mr.
It was from David Dain, and stated that the difficulty as to the title of the house had been settled, that the mortgage would be sent in for Mrs. Stanway to sign that night, and that Stanway might safely draw against the money to-morrow. 'My God! he exclaimed, pushing his hat back from his brow. 'What a chance!
'Ass! said the conductor of the opera bitterly when Harry Burgess told him that Stanway had suggested Sir Roger de Coverley for an extra, 'I wonder what his wife thinks of him! Sir Roger de Coverley was not danced, but twenty or thirty late stayers, with Stanway and Dain in charge, crossed hands in a circle and sang 'Auld Lang Syne' at the close.
Offering no reply to her formal salutation, he remained quite still for a moment, and then swaggered off to the Tiger. 'Look here, my girl, said Stanway furiously to his youngest. 'Do you suppose we're going to wait for you all night? Jump in. Milly's lips did not move, but she faced the rude blusterer with a frigid, angry, insolent gaze.
'Don't mention it, Arthur replied with politeness, and then, after Stanway had gone, leaving the door open, he turned to Leonora at the piano, and said: 'Do play something else. Instead of answering, she rose, resumed her jewellery, and took the chair which Stanway had left. She smiled invitingly, evasively, inscrutably at her guest.
'The dad has taken Bran out for a walk, so it won't trouble him, Ethel interjected sleepily under her breath. 'Well, but look here, Mrs. Stanway, said Harry conclusively, 'the organist at the Wesleyan chapel actually plays the sextet from Patience for a voluntary. What about that? If there's no harm in that Leonora surrendered. 'Come on, Mill, he commanded.
Stanway struck a bell with determination, and the manager appeared, a tall, thin, sandy-haired man of middle age, who wore a grey tailed-coat and a white apron. 'Ha! Mayer! That you? 'Yes, sir.... Good afternoon, miss. 'Good afternoon, Ethel simpered foolishly, and she had it in her to have slain both men because she felt such a silly schoolgirl. 'I wanted Ryley. Where is he?
Wollett's rooms, you say, are near Mr. Claridge's place of business? Is there any means of communication between the roofs?" "Yes, I am told that it is perfectly possible to get from one place to the other by walking along the leads." "Very good! Then, unless you can think of any other information that may help me, I think, Lord Stanway, I will go at once and look at the place."
In the first place, it struck me as curious, before I came here, that you had sent off that check for five thousand pounds to Lord Stanway an hour or so after the robbery was discovered; it looked so much as though you were sure of the cameo never coming back, and were in a hurry to avert suspicion.
'He's somewhere on the bank, sir speaking to the mouldmaker, I think. Bank = earthenware manufactory. But here the word is used in a limited sense, meaning the industrial, as distinguished from the bureaucratic, part of the manufactory. 'Well, just bring me in that letter from Paris that came on Saturday, will you? Stanway requested. 'I've several things to speak to you about, said Mr.
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