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But Sir Philip was the first to continue: "I must have no talk of ducking her, Dickon. Why, she must be the very woman poor Starkey bade me have a care of; but when I came here last she was gone, no one knew where. I'll go and see her to-morrow.
Starkey, I've done pretty well in business there's really no reason why I should keep on in my shop, if I chose to to do otherwise. 'I quite understand, interrupted Topham, in whom there began to stir a thought which made his brain warm. 'You would like to retire from business. And you would like to well, to pursue your studies more seriously.
We'll hear him first, and then you." "Very good, sir. Though I seem to be alone in the lions' den, I shall not flinch from my duty even in the face of all this array that has been carefully selected from among mine enemies." "They are exactly as indicated by yourself," coldly answered the colonel. "Send in Starkey."
Reassured on this point, he begged leave to give some account of himself. 'I dare say, Mr. Starkey, you're surprised to see how old I am. It seems strange to you, no doubt, that at my age I should be going to school. He grasped his beard and laughed. 'Well, it is strange, and I'd like to explain it to you. To begin with, I'll tell you what my age is; I'm seven-and-forty. Only that.
Mis Starkey left it with me when she went away, because, she said, it was handy, and I could give it to anybody who wished to look at the place. You're the first that has come; so when I see you setting here, I just ran over. Did Mr. Beloit send you?" "No; nobody sent me. Is it Mr. Beloit who has the letting of the house?" "Yes; but I can let folks in.
'I've always been what one may call serious-minded, Mr. Starkey. As a boy I liked reading, and I've always had a book at hand for my leisure time the kind of book that does one good. Just now I'm reading The Christian Year. And since my daughters married well, as I tell you, Mr.
As the pirates advanced, the quick eye of Starkey sighted Nibs disappearing through the wood, and at once his pistol flashed out. But an iron claw gripped his shoulder. 'Captain, let go, he cried, writhing. Now for the first time we hear the voice of Hook. It was a black voice. 'Put back that pistol first, it said threateningly. 'It was one of those boys you hate. I could have shot him dead.
Ascham in the Toxophilus , when discussing the relaxations open to the scholar who has been 'sore at his book', urges that 'walking alone into the field hath no token of courage in it'. But though this may have been true by that time in the immediate neighbourhood of English towns, it was not yet true abroad; for Thomas Starkey in his Dialogue , almost as valuable a source as the Utopia, praises foreign cities with their resident nobles by comparison with English, which are neglected and dirty 'because gentlemen fly into the country to live, and let cities, castles and towns fall into ruin and decay'.
Again he paused, and with emphasis. Again Topham murmured, this time congratulation. 'One of them is wife to a young solicitor; the other to a young gentleman farmer. And they've both gone to live in another part of the country. I dare say you understand that, Mr. Starkey?
Wigmore looked at him, and let his eyes fall: 'You are, of course, very busy, Mr. Starkey! 'Very busy. Topham waved his hand at the paper-covered table, and appeared to sink into despondency. Thereupon Wigmore cautiously and delicately approached the next thought he had in mind, Topham cunning fellow at one moment facilitating, at another retarding what he wished to say. It came out at last.
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