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The young man explained his precise processes as well as his state of mind would let him, and while he was doing so Mr. Torkingham and Louis waited patiently without, looking sometimes into the night, and sometimes through the door at the interlocutors, and listening to their scientific converse.
'Somebody from my grandmother, probably, to know when I am coming home. They were unperceived so far, for the only window which gave light to the hut was screened by a curtain. At that moment they heard the sound of their visitors' voices, and, with a consternation as great as her own, Swithin discerned the tones of Mr. Torkingham and the Bishop of Melchester. 'Where shall I get?
Torkingham and Swithin both hastened up to help the sufferer, who was a lovely little fellow with flaxen hair, which spread out in a frill of curls from beneath a quaint, close-fitting velvet cap that he wore. Swithin picked him up, while Mr.
I'll keep my word. Mr. Torkingham rose to leave. After she had held out her hand to him, when he had crossed the room, and was within two steps of the door, she said, 'Mr. Torkingham. He stopped. 'What I have told you is only the least part of what I sent for you to tell you. Mr. Torkingham walked back to her side. 'What is the rest of it, then? he asked, with grave surprise.
Besides herself the congregation consisted only of the parson, clerk, school-children, and three old people living on alms, who sat under the reading-desk; and thus, when Mr. Torkingham blazed forth the denunciatory sentences of the Commination, nearly the whole force of them seemed to descend upon her own shoulders.
'Dear my love, press thy hand to my breast, and tell If thou tracest the knocks in that narrow cell; A carpenter dwells there; cunning is he, And slyly he's shaping a coffin for me! Lady Constantine was disturbed by a break in the organist's meandering practice, and raising her head she saw a person standing by the player. It was Mr. Torkingham, and what he said was distinctly audible.
Cleeve seems to be; and I have never seen the inside of an observatory in my life. The intention was no sooner formed than it was carried out, Mr. Torkingham leading the way. Half an hour before this time Swithin St.
'It was a form of prayer I use, particularly when I am in trouble. It was recommended to me by the Bishop, and Mr. Torkingham commends it very highly. 'On your honour, if you have any, he said bitterly, 'whom have you there in your room? 'No human being. 'Flatly, I don't believe you.
Torkingham, that my husband, Sir Blount Constantine, was, not to mince matters, a mistaken somewhat jealous man. Yet you may hardly have discerned it in the short time you knew him. 'I had some little knowledge of Sir Blount's character in that respect.
Everything which had been discussed at that last session such as the introduction of the lay element into the councils of the church, the reconstitution of the ecclesiastical courts, church patronage, the tithe question was revived by Mr. Torkingham, and the excellent remarks which the Bishop had made in his addresses on those subjects were quoted back to him.
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