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Nine Men's Morrice: Stories Collected and Re-Collected (Classic Reprint) Walter Herries Pollock No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 170 - I will tell you what I will do. I will make a compact with you.' Then, leaning forward, he spoke rapidly and in a low tone some words, of which the listener, Mr. Tuttutson, could only distinguish the following : ' Till we meet again — great strait — Redhill — is it agreed Y ' One moment,' said Montagu, in doubtful tones. ' What did we do this time three days ago three years ago?
Page 128 - Yes, dear," he answered, divining her thought ; " I am as happy as the day is long." " God keep you so ! " she said, and they parted. When she and Sir Harry got into the carriage, she leant back and crossed her hands over her eyes, as if to shut out some painful vision. Sir Harry, fancying that she had a headache, began to talk in a cheerful strain. " Well, little Emmy," he said, " I hope you think better of Lilith — I was just going to call her Lilith von Waldheim — than you did. She seems to...
Page 28 - Just so," said Sir Harry. Soon after this the young men took their leave. As they walked back Vane said to Falcon — " What do you think of Miss von Waldheim now ? " " I have not your rapid power of forming opinions, Arthur," replied the other, "and I therefore reserve my decision. What do you think?" " I think she is not a girl to know all at once, though I believe I exaggerated her singularity last night. One's feelings are excited by the glare and the music, the hum and the clatter, and the constant...
Page 193 - He was about to leave the refreshment-room, when the Director stopped him quietly, but in a masterful manner, saying, with a slight foreign accent : ' So this is how we avoid our old friends ?' 'Old friends?' said Toby, aghast.
Page 183 - Well, no,' replied Snowle, somewhat confusedly; ' but you see the fact is that ' Here he suddenly made a wry face, such as a man makes who absently helps himself to ice-pudding, not having observed the nature of the plat. ' Confound the boy ! ' he said irrelevantly, as it seemed to his friend. ' I'll change my mind, please, and have a liqueur-glass of brandy by itself.
Page 189 - Mary,' he said, when she appeared, ' I shall not be home till dinner-time. I am going to — into the country.' ' But, sir,' said Mary wonderingly, ' you've still got your dress-clothes on !' ' No matter," said Montagu drearily, 'he hasn't.' 'And I beg your pardon, sir,' said Mary, ' but it's raining, and you've only taken a stick.' ' No matter,' again said Montagu fatally, ' he has his umbrella;' and with this he started for the railway-station in a hansom. CHAPTER IX. TOBY, following him in another...