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But where, save in the retrospect of 'The Sick Stockrider' and a verse or two of 'From the Wreck, shall we find any of the air of the lovely, transient Australian spring? And the galloping rhymes? Yes, there is indeed one galloping rhyme 'How we beat the Favourite' with a ring and a rush, a spirit and swiftness of colour, not approached by the best verse of Egerton Warburton or Whyte-Melville.
She arrived at this by pure ratiocination it's not a question of feeling, you understand. I'm the only man she's ever loved but she won't have me. What novels did you read when you were young, dear? I'm convinced it all turns on that. If she'd been brought up on Trollope and Whyte-Melville, instead of Tolstoi and Mrs.
R. Lionel Whyte-Melville, Bloomsbury Square, London." This card he had inveigled from a tourist at the King Edward Hotel. Corny stepped up to the man and presented it with a correctly formal air. "May I ask why I am selected for the honour?" asked the lady's escort. Now, Mr. Corny Brannigan had a very wise habit of saying little during his imitations of the Caliph of Bagdad.
The former, about the middle of the century, carried out with much knowledge, not inconsiderable wit, and the advantage of admirable illustrations from the pencil of John Leech, something like the original idea of Pickwick as a sporting romance, and there is a strong following of Dickens in him. Major Whyte-Melville, born near St.
After tea she went to Winton's study, that dingy little room where he never studied anything, with leather chairs and books which except "Mr. Jorrocks," Byron, those on the care of horses, and the novels of Whyte-Melville were never read; with prints of superequine celebrities, his sword, and photographs of Gyp and of brother officers on the walls.
Dash it, you can't imagine anything more than you can imagine. One would like to die in the open, though, like Whyte-Melville. But there's one thing that's always puzzled me, Gyp. All one's life one's tried to have a single heart. Death comes, and out you go! Then why did one love, if there's to be no meeting after?" "Yes; except for that, who would care?
The chief perhaps were Robert Surtees, the author of the facetious series of which "Mr. Jorrocks" is the central and best figure, and Major Whyte-Melville.
Whyte-Melville points out that my sex are unmerciful in the abuse of the spur. He says: "Perhaps because they have but one, they use this stimulant liberally and without compunction. From their seat and shortness of stirrup every kick tells home. Concealed under a riding habit, these vigorous applications are unsuspected by lookers on."
Bantling was to go with her to Rome, and she pointed out to Isabel that as he had been there before, as he was a military man and as he had had a classical education he had been bred at Eton, where they study nothing but Latin and Whyte-Melville, said Miss Stackpole he would be a most useful companion in the city of the Caesars.
Meanwhile up in Bobby's dusty old room, called by courtesy "The Study" but having little evidence of literature about it save an edition of Whyte-Melville and a miscellaneous collection of Yellow-backs, Peter had poured out his soul: "Bobby, I feel as though I'd just been set up with my back against the wall for every one to make shies at. Everything's going wrong everything.
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