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"Ah," remarked Von Koenitz. "One of your millionaire amateurs, I suppose." "Yare," agreed Hood. "I thought sure he was a nut." "A what?" interrupted Sir John Smith. "A nut," answered Hood. "A crank, so to speak." "Ah, 'krank'!" nodded the German. "Exactly a lunatic! That is precisely what I say!" "But I don't think it's no nut now," countered Hood valiantly.
Pair by pair The Wind has blown them all away: The young and yare, the fond and fair: Where are the Snows of Yesterday?" The little group whom he addressed lingered in a gracious silence for a short space. Singer and listeners seemed to be in an exquisite isolation of moonlight and soft odours. Katherine murmured pensively to herself: "Where are the snows of yesterday?"
What brooding brown eyes the poor cripple had! Not many years ago he would have sat down with the two poor souls, and made a hearty meal of it: he had no heart for such follies now. Old Yare stood in the background, his hat in his hand, stooping in his submissive negro fashion, with a frightened watch on Holmes. "Do you stay here, Lois?" he asked, kindly, turning his back on the old man.
Most of our other greatest and most navigable rivers are navigable but a very little way in; as the northern Ouse but to York, the Orwell but to Ipswich, the Yare but to Norwich; the Tyne itself but a very little above Newcastle, not in all above twelve miles; the Tweed not at all above Berwick; the great Avon but to Bristol; the Exe but to Exeter; and the Dee but to Chester: in a word, our river-navigation is not to be named for carriage, with the vast bulk of carriage by pack-horses and by waggons; nor must the carriage by pedlars on their backs be omitted.
It was easy to see, as he approached, from the quality of his dress and the richness of his trappings, that he was a man of some wealth and position. "Sir knight," said he, "my name is David Micheldene, and I am a burgher and alderman of the good town of Norwich, where I live five doors from the church of Our Lady, as all men know on the banks of Yare.
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