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Oh ah yes," and he hummed a little and spluttered a little, and then with an air of the subtlest craft he remarked, "There are those plans for the new pig-sties, Millie, which I am anxious to show you." He was manoeuvred at last from the room. Harry Luttrell and Joan Whitworth were left standing opposite to one another in the room. "Joan," Harry Luttrell said, "in ten days I go back to France."
In September, 1802, Lord Whitworth was sent as ambassador extraordinary to the French Republic. The instructions which he carried with him from Hawkesbury fully reflect the prevailing spirit of mistrust.
Against the continued occupation of Holland by French troops and their invasion of Switzerland, Whitworth was to make moderate but firm remonstrances, but in such a way as not to commit us finally. He was to employ an equal discretion with regard to Malta.
Jenny was busy with Stella Croyle's hair; and the result satisfied her. "There won't be anybody else to-night, madam," she said. "Won't there, Jenny?" said Mrs. Croyle, incredulously. "There'll be Miss Whitworth." Jenny Prask sniffed disdainfully. "Miss Whitworth! A fair sight I call her, madam, if I may say so. I never did see such clothes!
Whitworth cited the fact that thirty years since the cost of labour for making a surface of cast-iron true one of the most important operations in mechanics by chipping and filing by the hand, was 12s. a square foot; whereas it is now done by the planing machine at a cost for labour of less than a penny.
Whitworth has of late years been applying himself with his accustomed ardour to the development of the powers of rifled guns and projectiles, a branch of mechanical science in which he confessedly holds a foremost place, and in perfecting which he is still occupied. Engineer, Oct. 10th, 1862. We are informed in Mr.
Buzz to that Madam Whitworth who stood smiling while I was presented to the very lovely girl of great blondness, who both blushed and what is called giggled as I kissed her hand, though in her eyes I found a nice friendliness to me. "We are old friends who know all about each other, aren't we, Mr. Robert Carruthers?" and in her gay answer to that Mr.
As porter to the Abbey, Ned made himself at home; and, next to Adam Whitworth, was perhaps the most important personage present, continually roaring for ale, and pledging the damsels around him.
The man who had been so far the foremost in his thoughts during the last weeks that he never thought that he could have failed to recognise him. Mario Escobar! And with Joan Whitworth. Millicent Splay's letter flashed back into his memory. The distress which he had seemed to hear loud behind the written words was this its meaning and explanation? Joan Whitworth and Mario Escobar!
No wonder the shifty minister described his interview as "a most curious mixture of most heterogeneous subjects, of intermitting friendliness with the most passionate outbreaks," and strove in his account to deepen the shadows of his picture by discreet silence as to certain points a trick he may have learned from Whitworth.
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