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I believe that I am now in a position to play a bold game, and I believe that I shall soon arrive at the truth." He spoke in a low voice, and with a solemn emphasis that betrayed the intensity of his feeling. Miss Talboys stretched out her ungloved hand, and laid it in his own. The cold touch of that slender hand sent a shivering thrill through his frame.
Talboys that I thank him for the honor he does me, and that I decline." "Accept, you mean?" "No I don't ha! ha!" Her laugh died rapidly away at sight of the effect of her words. Mr. Fountain started, and his face turned red and pale alternately. "Refuse my friend refuse Talboys in that way? Thoughtless girl, you don't know what you are doing. His family is all but noble.
Talboys, he might be expected, as we all thought, to do it now. We watched them as they made for a gap in the wall which led through into the large enclosed space of the old circus. It had been an arena for chariot games, and they had gone down with the avowed purpose of searching where might have been the meta, and ascertaining how the drivers could have turned when at their full speed.
Indeed, unlikely as it appears at the first glance that such a man as this could have been vain, I have little doubt that vanity was the center from which radiated all the disagreeable lines in the character of Mr. Harcourt Talboys. I dare say Junius Brutus was vain, and enjoyed the approval of awe-stricken Rome when he ordered his son off for execution.
He then explained with uneasy animation what David had done for him. Talboys received all this with marked coldness; but it gave him time to recover his self-possession. He shook hands with Lucy, all but ignored David and Eve, and quietly assumed the part of principal personage.
When she took his offered arm he found that she was still trembling trembling very violently. "Pray, pray calm yourself, Miss Talboys," he said; "I may have been deceived in the opinion which I have formed; I may " "No, no, no," she exclaimed, "you are not deceived. My brother has been murdered.
"Of course they do; they have not got to dip their sail, as we have, every time we tack." This was the true solution, but Mr. Talboys did not accept it. "We are not so smart as we ought to be. Now you go to the helm, and I and the boy will dip the lug." The old boatman took the helm as requested, and gave the word of command to Mr. Talboys. "Stand by the foretack." "Yes," said Mr.
He had simply told the story of the missing man's life, from the hour of his arriving in London to that of his disappearance; but he saw that Clara Talboys had arrived at the same conclusion as himself, and that it was tacitly understood between them. "Have you any letters of your brother's, Miss Talboys?" he asked. "Two.
He searched about the room for some time, looking in all sorts of impossible places for a letter from George Talboys, and then threw himself dressed upon his friend's bed, in the room with the canaries and geraniums. "I shall wait for to-morrow morning's post," he said; "and if that brings no letter from George, I shall start for Liverpool without a moment's delay."
He goaded me as you have goaded me; he was as merciless as you have been merciless. We were in the shrubbery at the end of the lime-walk. I was seated upon the broken masonry at the mouth of the well. George Talboys was leaning upon the disused windlass, in which the rusty iron spindle rattled loosely whenever he shifted his position.
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