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He accumulated a large fortune in these dignified pursuits having, according to Winwood, landed estates to the annual amount of sixty thousand francs a-year and gave large dowries to his daughters, whom he married into noblest families; "which is the more remarkable," adds Winwood, "considering the services wherein he is employed about the king, which is to be the Mezzano for his loves; the place from whence he came, which is out of the kitchen of Madame the king's sister."
"Therefore his Majesty has given me charge out of the knowledge he has of your great worth and sufficiency," continued Winwood, "and the confidence he reposes in your faith and affection, freely to treat with you on these points, and withal to pray you to deliver your opinion what way would be the most compendious and the most assured to contrequarr these complots, and to frustrate the malice of these mischievous designs."
"Winwood Reade is good upon the subject," said Holmes. "He remarks that, while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.
He shook a grave head. "Pneumonia. And he has got it bad. Perhaps a touch of the sun as well." The housekeeper smiled discreetly. "Looks half-starved, too. I'll send up the ambulance at once and get him to the cottage hospital." Miss Winwood, a practical woman, was aware that the doctor gave wise counsel. But she looked at Paul and hesitated.
"I will see you to your carriage." On the threshold she turned, included Paul in a vague bow to the company, and passed through the door which Colonel Winwood held open. Paul watched her until she disappeared disappeared haughtily out of his life, taking his living heart with her, leaving him with a stone very heavy, very cold, dead. And he was smitten as with a great darkness.
Winwood said that the forty men in the break, in whose confidence he was, had already such power in the Prison that they were about to begin smuggling in automatic pistols by means of the guards they had bought up. "Show me," the Captain of the Yard must have demanded. And the forger-poet showed him. In the Bakery, night work was a regular thing.
Chairman, Your Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen," to the circle behind him, caught Miss Winwood, his dearest lady's smile, caught and held for a hundredth part of a second the deep blue eyes of the Princess she wore a great hat with a grey feather and a chinchilla coat thrown open, and looked the incarnation of all the beauty and all the desires of all his dreams and with a flash of gladness faced the audience and plunged into his speech.
One after another the precious hours, pregnant with the issues of life and death, followed each other on the dial. Lady Winwood returned alone. She had left her husband at the House of Lords. Dinner-time came, and brought with it a note from his lordship. There was a debate at the House. Lady Winwood and his daughters were not to wait dinner for him. Green Anchor Lane.
Weakness of the Rulers of France and England The Wisdom of Barneveld inspires Jealousy Sir Dudley Carleton succeeds Winwood Young Neuburg under the Guidance of Maximilian Barneveld strives to have the Treaty of Xanten enforced Spain and the Emperor wish to make the States abandon their Position with regard to the Duchies The French Government refuses to aid the States Spain and the Emperor resolve to hold Wesel The great Religious War begun The Protestant Union and Catholic League both wish to secure the Border Provinces Troubles in Turkey Spanish Fleet seizes La Roche Spain places large Armies on a War Footing.
Sophia produced the packet. Before she handed it to the visitor, she looked at her sister. "Ought we to let Mr. Turlington go," she asked, "as if nothing had happened?" Amelia considered silently with herself. She proposed, before proceeding further, to inquire whether Lady Winwood was in the house. The idea was instantly adopted. Sophia rang the bell.
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