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Harry Burgess, though barely of age, was one of the acknowledged dandies of Hillport. Slim and fair, with a frank, rather simple countenance, he supported his stylistic apparel with a natural grace that attracted sympathy.
Povey was to set forth to Oulsnam Bros., the dentists at Hillport, without any delay. Only on Thursdays and Sundays did Mr. Povey dine with the family. On other days he dined later, by himself, but at the family table, when Mrs. Baines or one of the assistants could "relieve" him in the shop. Before starting out to visit her elder sister at Axe, Mrs. Baines had insisted to Mr.
"It was before you came in from Hillport," the wondrous infant answered. "After my leg had stopped hurting me a bit." "But when I came in nurse said it had only just happened!" "Shows how much she knew!" said Robert, with contempt. "Does your leg hurt you now?" Edward Henry inquired. "A bit. That's why I can't go to sleep, of course." "Well, let's have a look at it."
Horace did not look round too often that would not have been quite proper but whenever he did look round the other couple had lagged farther and farther behind, and Ella seemed perfectly to have recovered her speech. At length he looked round, and lo! they had not turned the last corner; and they arrived at Mrs Penkethman's cottage at Hillport a quarter of an hour after their elders.
She forced her memory to reconstitute in detail his last visit to Hillport, and all the exacerbating scene of the funeral feast, in order that she might dwell tenderly upon his gestures, his glances, his remarks, the inflections of his voice. The eyes of her soul were ever beholding his form.
In front of them, over the great door, was a musicians' gallery, and over that a huge window. On either side of the great door were narrow windows which looked over stretches of green country far away from the Five Towns. For Wilbraham Hall was on the supreme ridge of Hillport, and presented only its back yard, so to speak, to the Five Towns.
He would take Gordon's suggestion, and himself drive the geese up to his residence in Hillport, that lofty and aristocratic suburb. It would be an immense, an unparalleled farce; a wonder, a topic for years, the crown of his reputation as a card. He announced his intention with that misleading sobriety and ordinariness of tone which it has been the foible of many great humorists to assume. Mr.
But the thoughts that do pass through the heads of even the most common-sensed philosophers, men and women, are truly astonishing. In four minutes she was at Bursley Town Hall, where she changed into another car full of people equally indifferent to the Musical Festival for the suburb of Hillport, where Mrs Clayton Vernon lived.
"You can take a week's notice," said Mr Duncalf, pompously. It was no argument. But employers are so unscrupulous in an altercation. "Oh, very well," said Denry; and to himself he said: "Something must turn up, now." He felt dizzy at being thus thrown upon the world he who had been meditating the propriety of getting himself elected to the stylish and newly-established Sports Club at Hillport!
Stanway's principles, schemes, methods, even her trifling dodges, were mentioned with deep respect by the ladies of Hillport, who often expressed their astonishment that, although the wheels of Mrs. Stanway's household revolved with perfect smoothness, Mrs. Stanway herself appeared never to be doing anything. That astonishment was Leonora's pride.
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