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"You had better bid them bring down a chaise for the gentleman and lady from Stroud," said the landlord. "That will save me from sending some one on the gentleman's horse." "No, no, landlord, no, no!" answered Byerly, "you are not up to a stratagem. Send your ostler with me on Mr. Brown's horse.
He was perspiring and fanning as usual, but carried no whisky and soda. The staff officers, of whom there were a dozen or more, mounted and followed the carriage. Sam rode next to Stroud. There was much confusion in the roads which they traveled wagons laden with tents and provisions and hospital stores, camp-followers of all descriptions, and some belated soldiers besides.
Stroud he was the 'coming' man, and she told somebody else, and so it got to be true.... And he painted Stroud without wincing; and she hung the picture among her husband's things...." He flung himself down in the arm-chair near mine, laid back his head, and clasping his arms beneath it, looked up at the picture above the chimney-piece.
Stroud so when she began to stammer something about her poverty. I remember getting off a prodigious phrase about the honour being MINE oh, I was princely, my dear Rickham! I was posing to myself like one of my own sitters. "Then I was taken up and left alone with him. I had sent all my traps in advance, and I had only to set up the easel and get to work.
Colver was puzzled, but he remembered Rogers' orders, and when he and his men reached the covert, they halted. They came upon Stroud, lying near some bushes, and they saw his horse, grazing on the tall grass near by.
He held his horse to a rapid pace as he crossed the level, and he was still a mile distant from the covert where Barbara had met Stroud when he saw a group of horsemen traveling rapidly up the valley. Linton rode on, his anxiety acute, a grave suspicion afflicting him.
He was charmed beyond expression by his journey through the manufacturing districts of Gloucestershire, more particularly by the fine scenery of the Vale of Stroud. The whole seemed to him a smiling scene of prosperous industry and middle-class comfort. But passing out of this "Paradise," as he styled it, another stage brought him into a region the very opposite.
But "still," to use the language of Judge Stroud "the slave is entirely under the control of his master. is unprovided with a protector, and, especially as he cannot be a witness or make complaint in any known mode against his master, the apparent object of these laws may always be defeated."
It seemed to her that Deveny must have misunderstood Stroud's action, for it was clear to her even in the stress and confusion of the moment that Deveny thought Stroud had attacked her through motives that were strictly personal. Anyway, before Stroud could speak Deveny's pistol glittered. And malignantly, his eyes blazing with a jealous, evil light, he shot Stroud twice.
Has Murray got in touch with Foster?" "Not yet. Young and Stroud are outside." "Send them to bring in Steve Skeels," I ordered. "Description on the telegram there. Any word, Worth?" "Nothing yet." Worth was calling one after another of the taxi offices. Little Pete came in with a tray. "All right, Worth," I said. "Turn that job over to Roberts. Here's where we eat."
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