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The few books that will be necessary they can either get at a Wattleborough library, or I can send them. 'Your energy is remarkable, all of a sudden, said Reardon. 'Yes. The hour has come, I find. "There is a tide" to quote something that has the charm of freshness.
'You have done a good deal, I think, to counteract those influences in Wattleborough. 'I hope so; and if only I had kept the use of my limbs I'd have done a good deal more. I have an idea of offering substantial prizes to men and women engaged in sedentary work who take an oath to abstain from all reading, and keep it for a certain number of years.
Only when he had reached middle age did John marry; the experiment could not be called successful, and Mrs Yule died three years later, childless. At fifty-four John Yule retired from active business; he came back to the scenes of his early life, and began to take an important part in the municipal affairs of Wattleborough.
'I thought it might have been spoken of in Wattleborough, and some friend might have written to you. But I suppose there has hardly been time for that. I shall surprise you very much. Father receives nothing, but I have a legacy of five thousand pounds. Dora kept her eyes down. 'Then what do you think? continued Marian. 'My cousin Amy has ten thousand pounds. 'Good gracious!
Runcorn a wary man of business, who had gone through many trades before he reached that of weekly literature took counsel one day with a fellow-campaigner, Malkin by name, who owned two or three country newspapers, and had reaped from them a considerable fortune; in consequence, his attention was directed to one John Earwaker, then editing the Wattleborough Courier. Mr.
What a difference that will make! 'Yes, indeed. And her brother John has six thousand. But nothing to their mother. There are a good many other legacies, but most of the property goes to the Wattleborough park "Yule Park" it will be called and to the volunteers, and things of that kind. They say he wasn't as rich as people thought. 'Do you know what Miss Harrow gets?
Again he had no intention of calling, but when he reached the iron gates he lingered. 'I will, by Jove! he said within himself at last. 'Just to prove I have complete command of myself. It's to be a display of strength, not weakness. At the house door he inquired for Mr Alfred Yule. That gentleman had gone in the carriage to Wattleborough, half an hour ago, with his brother. 'Miss Yule?
It was addressed to Maud, and Dora recognised the handwriting as that of a Wattleborough friend. 'There must be some news here, she said. 'Mrs Haynes wouldn't write unless she had something special to say. Just upon midnight, a cab drew up before the house. Dora ran down to open the door to her sister, who came in with very bright eyes and more colour than usual on her cheeks.
As the Milvains sat down to breakfast the clock of Wattleborough parish church struck eight; it was two miles away, but the strokes were borne very distinctly on the west wind this autumn morning. Jasper, listening before he cracked an egg, remarked with cheerfulness: 'There's a man being hanged in London at this moment.
Miss Rodney's leisure generally had its task; though as a matter of principle she took daily exercise, her walking or cycling was always an opportunity for thinking something out, and this afternoon, as she sped on wheels some ten miles from Wattleborough, her mind was busy with the problem of Mrs. Turpin's husband. From her clerical friend of St.
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