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Updated: June 11, 2025
From that day to this the thought or the mention of God brings up before us involuntarily the vision of a stern, angry, old man. Such was the price we were to pay for the indulgence of a curiosity which each of us, deep in our hearts, had, like Sara Ray, felt ought not to be gratified. "Mr. Marwood told me to burn it," said Felix. "It doesn't seem reverent to do that," said Cecily.
The thing that pleased me most in the whole paper, however, was the interview with George in the third column. It was quite short only a six-line paragraph headed "Mr. Marwood and the Escape," but brief as it was, it filled me with a rich delight. "Interviewed by our Special Correspondent at his residence on the Chelsea Embankment, Mr.
The first German example was 'Miss Sara Sampson', written in 1755, wherein the daughter of a fond English squire is lured away from her home, like Clarissa Harlowe, by the profligate Mellefont, who promises to marry her. Presently his former mistress, Marwood, appears a proud and passionate woman of sin.
'Nonsense, man! cried Marwood de Whichehalse, who to my amazement was the third of the number; 'only a hind cutting faggots; and of course he hath gone home long ago. Blind man's holiday, as we call it. I can see all over the place; and there is not even a rabbit there. At that I drew my breath again, and thanked God I had gotten my coat on. Even his chopper is gone, I see.
It was tantalizing work, for he was just the right distance for a running kick. The offices of our firm, which I had originally chosen myself, are on the first floor, close to the Army and Navy Stores. George turned in at the doorway and went straight up, and for a moment I stood in the entrance, contemplating the big brass plate with "Lyndon and Marwood" on it, and wondering what to do next.
The doctor had arrived home, tired but triumphant, little Douglas Haig Marwood having made a safe landing on the shores of time. Gertrude was still pacing restlessly but Mrs. Blythe and Susan had reacted from the shock, and Susan was already planning a new line of defence for the channel ports. "As long as we can hold them," she declared, "the situation is saved.
But you seem uncommonly happy. 'Tush, I said; 'could I flip about so, if I had my love with me? We kept up the dance very late that night, mother being in such wonderful spirits, that she would not hear of our going to bed: while she glanced from young Squire Marwood, very deep in his talk with our Annie, to me and Ruth Huckaback who were beginning to be very pleasant company.
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