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Updated: July 27, 2025


"I am sure the horse would have won had it not been for Adrien's ill-timed generosity." "What was that?" inquired Lady Merivale, looking keenly over at him. "He gave the jockey a ten-pound note the night before the race; and, of course, the fellow got drunk and pulled the 'King' up at the last fence." "And lost his life, did he not?" asked one of the artists. Lord Standon nodded, thoughtfully.

"You caught cold yesterday in the porch," Tom said in a playful scolding voice. "You do want a lot of looking after, Aunt Lucy. Have you a fire? The wind is keen, though the sun is so bright. Here, let me make a better fire than this." He knelt down on the rug, stirring the logs into a cheerful blaze. Miss Merivale sank down on the sofa and watched him in silence.

She was looking her best to-night; and although she had already been surfeited with compliments from duke to subaltern, she yet longed to hear one other voice praise her appearance. There was, indeed, every reason why Lady Merivale should be lauded as the greatest beauty of her time, for she carried all before her by the sheer force of her personality.

"With Lady Constance Tremaine," finished Lady Merivale, in a low voice, from which all attempt at disguise had gone. Mephistopheles nodded again. "You have guessed aright, my lady," he said. "See! there they are together. A handsome pair; an admirable match. Yet it is sad to think " He stopped again. "What?" cried Lady Merivale, grasping his scarlet-clad arm in a fierce grip. "It will never be!"

They began during the life-time of Quintilian, in the second century, and it continued to be the deliberate policy of Augustus, Vespasian and Hadrian to multiply and extend the influence of endowed schools in Rome and provincial towns. Their object, says Merivale, was to "restore the tone of society and infuse into the national mind healthier sentiments."

"You mean leave go back to Merivale to-night?" "Aye, I do. You can catch the mail at Tonbridge and you'll be home afore the moon's up." "Do you know Merivale then, Jerry?" "O' course. I'll harness Diogenes an' drive you in."

Merivale dropped down into an easy-chair one afternoon with the greatest languor and physical depression, and declaring that "those fashionable weddings were enough to knock a body up for a month," quietly fell asleep among her comfortable cushions. There is only a little more labor for my long-used wheel, and the threads of my uneven life will have run on to the crisis.

Hines than he lifted a stiffening face. "What is this?" he challenged. "What's what?" The official tapped the paper with a gaunt finger. "'Minna Merivale, aged twenty-five," he read. "That's the name she went by." "Unmarried" read Bartholomew Storrs in a voice of doom. "Well?" In the sexton's eyes gleamed an unholy savagery of satisfaction. "Take her away." "What?" "Bury her somewhere else.

They passed over her like storm-clouds over a safely sheltered flower only perceived by the momentary shadow which they cast. Once it was in the first summer at Merivale the child noticed how pleased every one seemed, and how papa and mamma, now always together, used to speak more tenderly than usual to her.

"Your sister is not hurt?" "A bruise or two. They met that traction engine; Miss Smythe was driving, and tried to make Bob pass it. The result was that Bob bolted down the hill." They were walking quickly up the hill as he spoke. Rhoda told him that Miss Merivale was waiting for them, and a couple of moments brought them to her side.

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