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She will expect you to do justice to it." Then turning to Mrs. Vercoe again to explain, "It is this young lady's birthday, and Anna has invited them to tea with her, as I, unfortunately, have to be out." "My!" exclaimed Mrs. Vercoe, looking at them with amused interest, "that will be nice. Good-day, miss," as Cousin Charlotte hurried away.
"Well, my dears," she said warmly, "and what can I do for you to-day?" There was a delicious smell of hot cake pervading the place, and Mrs. Vercoe herself had come out streaked with flour, and carrying a big black 'sheath' full of new currant cakes and buns. "I I hardly know," said Esther. "There are such lots of nice things here," she added politely.
A week later she wrote to me from Rome. "Isn't it terrible?" she began, "Mr Vercoe committed suicide on Wednesday the Birmingham papers he was a Birmingham man are full of it!" The Barrowvian "Night! A sky partially concealed from view by dark, fantastically shaped clouds, that, crawling along with a slow, stealthy motion, periodically obscure the moon.
"The year after my marriage, my husband, a Mr Vercoe, who was a great friend of ours, and I, accepted my mother's invitation to spend Christmas with her, and we all three travelled together to Sartoris. "It was an ideal season, and the snow an exceptional sight in my native town lay thick in the Castle grounds.
It was customary, after the Carthusian match, for the footer captain to give his eleven a formal tea, Phil arranged the usual preliminaries, sick at heart, and wearily certain as to the result. Three put in an appearance Vercoe, Baines, and Roberts and in place of the burly forms of the rest of the St.
I saw with dismay how persistently unpopular Phil remained, and I heard the charms of Acton sung daily by monitor after monitor, until I saw that Acton had captured the whole body bar Phil's own staunch friends, Baines, Roberts, and Vercoe.
"Our bête noir," said I, without winking. "You heathen," said Phil, laughing. "That was almost a pun. But I'm afraid I'm a bit selfish in my joy about Acton. Since he's a certainty, I can devote all my mighty mind to rackets. I don't think there is a better pair in the place than Vercoe and self at present." "Oh, thou modest one!" "'Toby' always finishes up 'When you and Mr.
With both his little eyes fixed inexorably on merit, the greatest joys of his life were consummated when the St. Amory's pair brought the championship home. "Congratulate you, old man. If Acton pulls off the Aldershot and you and Vercoe the rackets "
He compressed his lips with rage and pain, and looked at Phil with such a look of deadly hatred that Vercoe was disgusted. "Now come, Acton. You've fought well, and, by Jove! you ought to lose well. Bourne fought like a gentleman, and you've been beaten fairly. What is the good of bearing any malice?" "Look here, Acton," said Phil, "I'm jolly glad I've thrashed you, but all is over now.
'Look here, Mr Vercoe, I exclaimed, 'there is one room in our Castle I defy even you sceptic as you are to sleep in. It is the Barceleri Chamber, called after my ancestor, Barceleri Paoli. He visited China in the fifteenth century, bringing back with him a number of Chinese curiosities, and a Buddha which I shrewdly suspect he had stolen from a Canton temple.
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