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"Valgame Dios! what an evil disposition had that same foreign jorobado, and yet he had much grace, much humour, and said occasionally to me such comical things, that I was fit to die of laughter. So he sat down to supper in the room above, and I may as well tell you here, that he slept in the same chamber where your worship will sleep to-night, and his servant waited behind his chair.
I don't know if Sir Owen has anything else to do, but I have some parts to copy; there is a rehearsal to-night." Ulick's manner at once grew so serious and formal that Innes feared he had offended him, and then Owen suddenly realised that they were both being sent away.
Go somewhere else for a lodging," and with this he shut down the window and left the Lord standing there. So the Lord turned his back on the rich man, and went across to the small house and knocked. He had hardly done so when the poor man opened the little door and bade the traveler come in. "Pass the night with me, it is already dark," said he; "you cannot go any further to-night."
"I hope there are letters from home to-night," Mrs. Roberts said, "real long ones. It is a week since we have heard." "And I ought to hope that they would require a first reading in private," her husband answered, as he seized his neglected pen. "It is the only way in which these business letters will get answered. I find the temptation to talk to you irresistible."
Falkirk went off, making sure that the door latched behind him. In a quarter of an hour he came back, with an attendant bearing a tray. 'At present fortune gives us nothing more remarkable than fried ham, he said, 'and that not of the most eatable, I fear. She is a jade. But we'll get away to-morrow. I hope so. 'My dear sir, said Wych Hazel with a radiant face, 'we will get away to-night.
Please thank her for me," I replied eagerly. "Mother, may I speak to Richard Morton?" asked a timid voice from the obscurity of the hallway. "Not to-night, Adah to-morrow." "Forgive me if I disobey you this once," I interrupted hastily. "Yes, Miss Adah, I want to thank you." She came instantly to my side, and I held out my hand to her. I wondered why hers throbbed and trembled so strangely.
"I shouldn't have believed that I could rally so greatly in so short a time," said Merwyn, leaning back luxuriously in his chair. "Last night I was overcome with drowsiness soon after I lay down. I now feel as if I should never want to sleep again. It will be my turn to watch to-night, and you must sleep." "Yes, when I feel like it," replied Marian.
The uncertainty of this was most exciting, and "Will it be there to-night?" was her frequent thought during the day. As time went on, and they grew to know each other better, she began to find the kitchen cat a far superior companion to either her dolls or the man in the picture.
"How long has it been since the boy Henry Ware left us?" asked Major Braithwaite. "A week to-day," replied the scout. "And the fleet has not yet come," said the Major, as much to himself as to the others. "I've always believed until to-night that it would come. That boy inspired confidence. I had to believe in him. I had no choice." "Nor I, either," said Gregory Wilmot.
Then, as if she did not expect Diana to make any comment, she added, "The invitations must go out to-night." That evening van Hert came as usual, but, simply because he was gayer than usual, Diana perceived that his gaiety was forced; and she saw also that he shunned meeting her eyes, looking anywhere, nowhere, rather than into her face.
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