United States or Guinea ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
But at the same time there came a message from Mr. Mahogany Topps. It was now half-past two, and Mr. Topps expressed a hope that Major Tifto would not draw the country on the present occasion. The Major, thinking that it might be as well to conciliate his enemies, rode solemnly and slowly home to Tallyho Lodge in the middle of his hounds. The Major Is Deposed
"Oh, no, he hasn't," declared Frick, shaking his head dismally; "we haven't any of us seen him, and Larry Keep has been run over by Mr. MacIlvaine's tallyho, and most smashed up." Then he stopped suddenly, his cup of woe being empty. "The first thing to do is to find Joel," said Mr. King to himself, anxiously. "The storm is almost over, to be sure" glancing out of the window "but where can he be?"
Well, as I was telling you, it has come to a jolly little company of four in my surrey, which, after all, is perhaps nicer than a dozen in a tallyho, though of course it won't impress the voters as much." Ruth's eyebrows arched. "Is that the object of our going?" "What an idea, my dear!" Nevertheless, she colored. "We'll start early enough for a fish supper at the Lakeview Inn," she rattled on.
However, he went with the man, who picked up several other newly landed immigrants, Poles, Lithuanians, and Slovaks, and took them all outside, where stood a great four-horse tallyho coach, with fifteen or twenty men already in it. It was a fine chance to see the sights of the city, and the party had a merry time, with plenty of beer handed up from inside.
A pack of bloodhounds, led by Hornblower of Trinity brandishing a dogwhip in tallyho cap and an old pair of grey trousers, follow from fir, picking up the scent, nearer, baying, panting, at fault, breaking away, throwing their tongues, biting his heels, leaping at his tail. He walks, runs, zigzags, gallops, lugs laid back.
Uncle James was seated nearly opposite, for the two long seats of the tallyho faced each other. Lucy spoke in a low tone, not wishing him to overhear. "He said we were going to board at a big house pretty near the old mine." "Yes, Mr. Templeton's." "And he said somebody had a white Spanish rabbit with reddish brown eyes and its mouth all a-quiver." "Yes, I heard him say that about the rabbit.
Jones was sitting. He had resolved that he would get that woman's spoken evidence out of her; and he had gotten it. But now, what was he to do with her next? with her or with the late Mr. Talbot of Tallyho Lodge?
"Minister, minister! Where's the minister?" cried voices out of the revel. "Who's going to be the cler-gy-man?" The head of Jumbo, rotund negro waiter at the Tallyho Club for many years, appeared rashly through a half-opened pantry door. "Oh, Jumbo!" "Get old Jumbo. He's the fella!" "Come on, Jumbo. How 'bout marrying us a couple?" "Yea!"
But it was too late to take me to the Palace." "Ah, but it came in handy don't you remember, Benjy, how one of the Great Ladies died suddenly the next week!" "Oh yes! Yoicks! Tallyho!" cried Benjamin, with sudden excitement.
They stared at each other for some moments, and then Mollett said, in a low dull voice, "Yes, she knows me; it was she that lived with her at Tallyho Lodge." "You remember him now, Mrs. Jones; don't you?" said Mr. Prendergast. For another moment or two Mrs. Jones stood silent; and then she acknowledged herself overcome, and felt that the world around her had become too much for her.
Word Of The Day