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Never mind! the end was near at hand, and then they would go and fill their lungs with mountain air and their eyes with fair scenes, and the roses would come back to her cheeks and lips, and the light to her eyes. He never for an instant connected his niece's pallor with Philip Vansittart.
"He has earned the enmity of Otto von Holzen a man who will stop at nothing and the malgamiters are being raised against him by Von Holzen. Our information is very vague, but we are almost certain that an attempt is to be made on Tony's life to-night between half-past nine and ten. You understand?" Mrs. Vansittart almost stamped her foot. "Oh yes," answered White, looking at the station clock.
The site on which these premises stand, as well as those to the east as far as Vansittart Row and the new block at the corner now in course of building, was for very many years in the occupation of Mackenzie Lyall & Co. as an auction mart.
Vansittart played a middle-aged game, and Victor had found little leisure for this modest sport among his more ambitious amusements. Charlie had to balance Millie Bushell, and he spent a very hot and wearying afternoon. It was close on five before Charlie, with a groan, could throw down his racquet. "Poor boy!" said Mrs. Marland.
Vansittart admired her brother, but why that lady was taking the trouble to convey to him that such was the case. "Le bonheur c'est etre ne joyeux." There are in the suburbs of London certain strata of men which lie in circles of diminishing density around the great city, like debris around a volcano.
A few street cleaners were leisurely working, a few milkmen were hurrying from door to door, but the houses were barred and silent. Cornish walked on the right-hand side of the road, which made it all the easier for Mrs. Vansittart to perceive him from her bedroom window as he passed Oranje Straat.
"Charlie, dear," called Lady Merceron, who had been talking comfortably to Mrs. Bushell in the shade, "come and hand the tea. I'm sure you must all want some. Millie, my dear, how hot you look!" "She never will take any care of her complexion, complained Mrs. Bushell. "Take care of your stom your health and your complexion will take care of itself," observed Mr. Vansittart. "Charlie!
Vansittart that she had formed an entirely erroneous conception. This was not the sort of woman to seek the admiration of the first-comer, and Percy Roden had allowed his sister to surmise that, whether it had been sought or not, Mrs. Vansittart had certainly been accorded his highest admiration. "It is good of you to return my call so soon," she said, in a friendly voice.
Sir Alexander Cadogan, who replaced Sir Robert Vansittart as adviser to the British Cabinet and who acts in a supervisory capacity over the extraordinarily powerful British Intelligence Service. Geoffrey Dawson, editor of the London Times.
They rode on, talking of other things; and Roden, having sped his shaft, seemed relieved in mind, and had plenty to say about himself. A man's interests are himself, and malgamite naturally formed a large part of Roden's conversation. Mrs. Vansittart encouraged him with a singular persistency to talk of this interesting product. "It is wonderful," she said "quite wonderful."
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