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Gray took the tour of the Lakes before returning, and was gone full three weeks, leaving his family to our care for the whole time. "Heaven be praised, that is over!" was my exclamation, when I saw the stage move off that bore them from our door. Frost at length came, and with it expired the visiting season.
He left the room with his tail between his legs, and never again, while the summer lasted, could he be induced to face Amy's camera. The boys' stay was almost at an end. There had been a number of "last days," indeed, and Graham declared that he felt like a popular prima donna with a farewell tour once a year.
What would I be doing with your paltry spoons? I was married this morning, in Fifth Avenue, and I am on my wedding tour. I have high connections in New York. You'll repent it, sir, if you dare to arrest me. 'Oh, come, now, said the incredulous official, 'I've hearn stories like that before. This ain't the first time swindlers has traveled in couples.
LIVINGSTONE, Tour in S. Africa, p. 80. The Singhalese distinguish one species of mongoos, which they designate "Hotambeya" and which they assert never preys upon serpents.
His first attempt was an abject failure. The Lady la Tour inspired her little garrison with her own dauntless spirit, and so resolute was the defence and so fierce the cannon fire from the bastions that Charnisay's ship was shattered and disabled and he was obliged to warp her off under the shelter of a bluff to save her from sinking.
They have a strong attachment for each other, and though my son hardly understands the real nature of his feelings, yet great care and watchfulness will be necessary. Under such circumstances, it will be as well not to leave them too much together." Madame de la Tour replied, "They are too young and too poor.
"We stood watching him, evidently to his great distress, and finally he made bold to say, 'You no stand lound, bosse. You go 'way. "We left him, but after making the tour around the lake came back to the same place. There sat four people on the ground eating fried pork, potatoes and Chinese cakes. In a young woman of the group I recognized one whom I had seen dancing at one of Mr.
Soon the queer actions of the stranger were quite forgotten in the deep interest of the three young men in their work. With the prospect of a world tour before them if the Sky-Bird turned out well, they now had more incentive than at the beginning to build the machine with the utmost skill and attention to every detail.
Gardner, with rare foresight, saw that the Viennese orchestra would prove a dead loss. He suggested the possibility of a concert tour through the country, covering several weeks, and Monty, too ill to care one way or the other, authorized him to carry out the plan if it seemed feasible.
As we made our way down the hillside to the town, M. La Tour reminded us of a more cheerful association connected with Chinon than those upon which we had been dwelling, for here it was that the historian Philippe de Commines was betrothed. He had been created Prince of Talmont by Louis XI, who arranged a marriage for him with Hélène de Chambès, daughter of the Lord and Lady of Montsoreau.
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