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A gentleman's visiting card informed him that his other caller was Sir Charles Somerfield, Bart. "Bart," Mr. Coulson remarked thoughtfully. "I'm not quite catching on to that, but I suppose he goes in with the young lady." "They're both together, sir," the boy announced. Mr. Coulson completed his toilet and hurried downstairs Mr. Coulson found his two visitors in the lounge of the hotel.
I came home expecting a pedestal and I give you my word nobody seems to think much of me except my family. And they aren't worshipful exactly. They can't be. How can they rave over my one decoration when that young nigger John has two, and deserved them, and when the butcher and baker and candlestick-maker are my ranking officers? War used to be a gentleman's game. But it isn't any more."
Doña Estafania, the kind gentleman's wife, often observed, in conversation with Leocadia, that the boy so strongly resembled a son of hers who was in Italy, she never could look at him without thinking her son was actually before her.
He accepted the old gentleman's good offices as he would have accepted those of a waiter, conveying no hint of an attention paid also to himself. An observer of these two persons would have assured himself that the degree to which Mr.
He found her somewhat prostrate, his sister-in-law very pale and quiet, and the clerks of the hotel unable to account for the disappearance of Mr. Van Antwerp. Lieutenant Hayne, they said, had told them he received news which compelled him to go back to New York at once; but the gentleman's traps were all in his room. Mr. Hayne, too, had gone to New York; and thither the captain followed.
There he bought him twelve skeins of wool and sent him on his way rejoicing, with a horse worth five times his own." With her chin in her hands the girl had listened intently to the story. When it was finished she said: "What didst thou say was the gentleman's name?" "His friend called him Dick.
Why should she have been so anxious to play into Lady Lufton's hands? It was not because she thought it right, as a general social rule, that a lady should refuse a gentleman's hand, unless the gentleman's mother were a consenting party to the marriage. She would have held any such doctrine as absurd. The lady, she would have said, would have had to look to her own family and no further.
From that date, no further notice of the crime committed at the Hand-in-Hand inn appeared in the public journals. Emily closed the volume which she had been consulting, and thankfully acknowledged the services of the librarian. The new reader had excited this gentleman's interest.
This surgeon notwithstanding, out of love to his master, returning one day to dress his wound, the count cheerfully asked him how Sir Philip did? he answered with a dejected look, that he was not well: At these words the count, as having more sense of his friend's wound than his own, cried out, "Away villain, never see my face again till you bring better news of that gentleman's recovery, for whose redemption, many such as I were happily lost."
Somehow the fellow did suggest Kirkwood's caller of the afternoon. The young man could not have said precisely how, for he was unfamiliar with the aspect of that gentleman's back. None the less the suggestion persisted. By now, a few of the guests, theater-bound, for the most part, were leaving.
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