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Even respect for parental authority was invoked. "In the first hour of his trouble your father wrote to me to take care of you don't forget it. Yes, to me, just a plain man, rather than to any of his fine West-End friends. You can't get over that. And a father's a father no matter what a mess he's got himself into. You ain't going to throw over your own father are you?"
No rumour or echo of rumour had reached the profane in the West-End let alone in the guileless marine suburb of Hove.
So there were mingled feelings abroad when Mrs. Upjohn's neatly written invitations found their way into each of the West-End houses, embracing natives and strangers alike in their all-hospitable sweep, and even creeping into some outlying less aristocratic quarters, where confusion worse confounded, in the shape of refurbishing and making over, followed agonizingly in their wake.
Bunting, if that's the fact well, it stands to reason the fellow's an escaped lunatic; and if he's an escaped lunatic he's got a keeper, and they'd be raising a hue and cry after him; now, wouldn't they?" "You don't think," went on Bunting, lowering his voice, "that he could be just staying somewhere, lodging like?" "D'you mean that The Avenger may be a toff, staying in some West-end hotel, Mr.
Twelve hours after Sir John's departure which will bring the time, to the morning of December 8 the headlines of the Daily Mail stared up at me from the table. They were black and heavy: those headlines, and horribly significant. They were: FRANKLIN WHITE Jr. Midnight Marauder Strangles Young Society Man in West-End Mansion
Let us change the scene to a classic concert of quite another kind. In a quiet West-end street, we are in a room of singular construction. It is in the form of a right-angled triangle; and at the right angle, upon a small dais, is placed the pianoforte and the desks, and so forth, for the performers.
"This is the seventh time I've been," she said, after the first act, "and I don't mind if I come seven times more." She was much interested in the women who surrounded them in the stalls. She pointed out to Philip those who were painted and those who wore false hair. "It is horrible, these West-end people," she said. "I don't know how they can do it." She put her hand to her hair.
I 'll never ask again where she came from; she is her own testimonial." "You mauna be extravagant, John; Sarah hes never seen a manse before, and I must tell her not to " "Ruin me, do you mean, by ten courses every evening, like the dinners West-end philanthropists used to give our men to show them how to behave at table?
His trade was in gold and silver lace-work bullion for epaulettes, and so on; and as he had a good connection with several West-end establishments, his business appeared to be a thriving one; so much so, that he usually employed several assistants of both sexes. He occupied the first floor, and a workshop at the end of the garden.
West-end mansions are not naturally picturesque or interesting subjects either for the brush or the pen, and we would not willingly drag our readers into one of them, did not circumstances over which we have not a shadow of control compel us to do so.
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