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Oh, of course, she didn't mean to!" For the man had started up with an exclamation of horror. "I think she was thoroughly frightened when Miss Twining fainted." "But what did she do?" "Why, she went up to Miss Twining's room, late one night, and carried a riding-whip, she had threatened that afternoon to 'flog' her and it upset Miss Twining and brought on a fainting turn.
The tone was emphatic. Miss Sterling caught Mrs. Albright's hand in a rapturous squeeze. "Do you mean no heart disease?" Miss Twining's soft voice was shrilled with incredulous joy. They could not catch the reply; but they smiled to each other in delight. Shortly Mrs. Nobbs and the Doctor went downstairs, leaving the door free. The others hurried across. Miss Twining was tearfully excited.
"Whether Twining's pamphlet excited the alarm, or was only an echo of the minds of a number of men hostile to religion, I cannot say, but if I recollect dates aright the orders of the Court of Directors came as soon as possible after that pamphlet was published; and as it would have been too barefaced to have given a specific order to send home missionaries, they founded their orders on an unjust and wicked clause in the charter, and so enforced it that it should effectually operate on missionaries.
At ten o'clock that evening Dan Gallaher and James McNiece sat together in the private room behind the bar of Sam Twining's public-house. The house was neutral ground used by Orangemen and Nationalists alike, a convenient arrangement, indeed a necessary arrangement, for there was no other public-house nearer than Curraghfin.
Bideawhile which he could not bring himself to tell to any other living man; and he could generally condescend to accept Mr. Bideawhile's advice, knowing that his father before him had been guided by the same. "But you are out of your way for Lincoln's Inn Fields," said Stanbury. "I have to call at Twining's. And where are you going?" "I have been three times round St.
Probably I shan't be here by that time, but I guess I shall be hoverin' somewhere round, and I'll know when your 'phone's in!" "To have one in each room would be a great deal of expense," said Mrs. Crump. "What of it!" retorted Miss Major. "Haven't they money enough? They're always building additions now the one that's going to spoil Miss Sterling's room and Miss Twining's down below.
She seemed to see Alice Twining's gentle, appealing face, as it had looked when she said, "I hope he doesn't think I am presumptuous in sending it." She dashed away the drops, and went on glancing along the rows of books. The minister had risen, but Polly darted ahead of him and pounced upon a small volume. "Here it is!" She touched it caressingly, as if to make up for recent neglect.
"But if you will have it so, I'll say you may thank me by letting me read your poems." "Oh, I'd love to! And then you can tell me whether they are right or not!" "As if I'd know!" chuckled Polly. "But I'll run away now and let you go to writing I do know enough for that!" She took Miss Twining's face between her soft palms and gave her four kisses, on cheeks and temples.
But in order to follow the thread of Mary Twining's romance, we must pause at the account of a ball given to one of General Washington's regiments at a time before the rigor of war had quenched all thoughts of merry-making. It was not her first ball.
The change of tone on this occasion was in truth occasioned by the sadness of the man's thoughts in reference to his wife, but Stanbury attributed it to another cause. "He need not be afraid of me," he said to himself, "and at least he should not show me that he is." Then they parted, Trevelyan going into Twining's bank, and Stanbury passing on towards the office of the Daily R.
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