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When you send your only daughter on a visit to Miami minus any entanglements and she mentions in a telegram that she has acquired a darling Archie, you are naturally startled. He rose from the table with a bound.
She did not even consider how Durrance had come to know or guess that the telegram had ever been despatched. "At the very last moment," Durrance resumed, "when my camel had risen from the ground, I stooped down to speak to him, to tell him to see to Feversham. But I did not. You see I knew nothing about his allowance. I merely thought that he had fallen rather low.
Brown, believed that a lion among ladies was a dreadful thing, what must" But here I broke down; for Mrs. Brown, with the awful intuition of her sex, I saw at once was more occupied with my manner than my speech. So I tried a business brusquerie, and, placing the telegram in her hand, said hurriedly, "We must do something about this at once.
Again our hero and his companion hurried on, and soon came in sight of a small village. They inquired their way to a tavern, and there dried their clothing and procured a good, hot meal, which made both feel much better. "I am going to send a telegram to Mr. Vane," said Joe, and did so without further delay. He was careful of the satchel and did not leave it out of his sight.
I dare say we shall find a telegram at St. Helen's to-morrow if we go in," answered her brother-in-law. "Yes, or possibly Phil will ride out and fetch it. He is always glad of an excuse to come. I wonder what sort of girl Miss Young is. You and Clover never have said much about her." "There isn't much to say. She's just an ordinary sort of girl, nice enough and all that, not pretty."
Between you and me and the post, I think there have been moments when mademoiselle missed 'her friend' far more than she confessed." "Dat's stronory," thought Jenifer. "He dun eat mo' dis yar hot mo'nin' dan he dun in two mumfs." Then Jenifer was sent out with a telegram, which merely said: "May I come to-day by Shore line limited?
It had been Lanyard's intention to have himself announced simply as the author of that telegram from Edgartown. Obscure impulse made him change his mind, some premonition so tenuous as to defy analysis. "Mr. Anthony Ember." "Thank you, sir." After a little the footman returned. "If you will come this way, sir...."
"Yes, if you wish. I must go now I am late. Is it true that we won the battle yesterday? Tell me " "We do not know the details yet. It seems that only Ewell's division was engaged. Trimble's brigade suffered heavily, but it was largely an artillery battle. I saw a copy of General Jackson's characteristic telegram to Richmond.
That telegram which Martin had welcomed with so much relief but an hour ago taunted him now. The scandal would have been bad enough if Mario Escobar were nothing more than the shady hunter of women he was supposed to be. It would be ten times louder now that Mario Escobar had been interned as a traitor within twelve hours of the secret meeting! Some escape must be discovered from the peril.
Every letter or telegram, whether from Bergen or Christiania, was to be addressed to him, at the inn, where he intended to await further developments. Did he still hope? Yes, though it must be admitted that he had some misgivings. As soon as he returned the professor became satisfied that some important event had occurred in his absence.
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