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Updated: June 30, 2025


Why, it's horrible to contemplate. Do you know, Mrs. Monteith," he went on, with his far-away air, "it's that that makes society here in England so difficult to me. It's so hard to mix on equal terms with your paid high priests and your hired slaughterers, and never display openly the feelings you entertain towards them.

During those perilous times, the lonely horseman, in a dangerous region, relies much on his intelligent steed for warning. While Monteith Sterry could do a great deal of thinking in the saddle, he was too alert to drop into a brown study that would divert his thoughts from his surroundings.

"Keep in the middle while I take a turn that way," said Monteith, sheering in the direction named. Brother and sister did not read the meaning of this course, nor could they detect its wisdom. But they obeyed without question.

The only way of escape was still in front, and, with the utmost energy, power, and skill at his command, Monteith Sterry darted ahead. His crouching body, the head well in advance, somewhat after the manner of a racing bicyclist on the home-stretch, his compressed lips, his flashing eyes, with every muscle tense, were proof that he knew it had now become a struggle of life and death.

He too fell back, but could still wave his hat for her as she passed to disappearance in the great floridly framed aperture whose wings at once came together behind her. HE had been out but once since his arrival, Mark Monteith; that was the next day after he had disembarked by night on the previous; then everything had come at once, as he would have said, everything had changed.

Monteith passed down the walk under the spreading branches to their carriage. The apple-blossoms showered fragrant blessings on them as they went their way, and the bridegroom whispered: "Do you remember the first time you and I came up this hill together?" There was an audible rustle in the large congregation of St.

It was while smarting under these criticisms that the steward one morning in June brought him his letters. One was from Monteith Class of '9l a senior when Muggles was a freshman and was postmarked "Wabacog, Canada," where Monteith owned a lumber mill and where he ran it himself and everything connected with it from stumpage to scantling.

The hard fact confronted the rustlers that one of their principal men was in the power of the cowmen and was held as a hostage for the safety of the detested Monteith Sterry, who had been warned that he would be shot on sight by any rustler who gained the chance. The unexpected phase of the situation caused a long and angry discussion between Capt.

For a moment he could hardly imagine the reason why: then he remembered all at once the strict harem rules by which married women in England are hemmed in and circumvented. To visit an unmarried man alone by night is contrary to tribal usage. He rose, and advanced towards his visitor with outstretched arms. "Why, Frida," he cried, "Mrs. Monteith no, Frida what's the matter?

As we approached the summit of the first part of the mountain the way became very steep and toilsome, but the prospect, which had before been only on the south side, began to open on the east, and we saw suddenly spread out below us the vale of Monteith, with "far Loch Ard and Aberfoil" in the center and the huge front of Ben Venue filling up the picture. Taking courage from this, we hurried on.

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