- 2023-12-02They were approaching the river, and there was a fog to-night!
- 2023-12-02Mrs. Jud. I cannot com—pre—hend—I—— [The girls
- 2023-12-02expense, and gave not much pleasure. A kind of very stiff
- 2023-12-02expected to respond to every toast, and not only to sip
- 2023-12-02event in this quiet retired corner of the world; and nearly
- 2023-12-02the rain. Mais n’importe! the man, the man remains the
- 2023-12-02months to me. I came to England on my Company’s being
- 2023-12-02Horatia. The cholera, I say—in the vault—O! you put
- 2023-12-02heavy rain set in, which was hardly sufficient to drive
- 2023-12-02me an explanation of this extraordinary affair. Take me
- 2023-12-02Sir; this shall not be passed over, I’ll warrant you.
- 2023-12-02your Sentinels, and then to your business. [Exit Corporal
- 2023-12-02a short time we were surrounded by a large group of the
- 2023-12-02But O Sir, how Miss Sophy trembled and turned as white
- 2023-12-02Shepherd, Miss Kensington, and our three selves, all to
- 2023-12-02talking,’ without difficulty. In fact, whatever the dinner-parties
- 2023-12-02might have noticed the reduced numbers of his following.
- 2023-12-02O’Shan. Ah, poor gintleman, your troubles will soon be
- 2023-12-02Charles. Remain then beside me. Or rather, why cannot we
- 2023-12-02was one year Chairman of the Court of Directors. Sir Henry
- 2023-12-02sought her out. She did not know that he had even better
- 2023-12-02wife, who told him that the leak could not be got at because
- 2023-12-02Charles. [Aside.] I’ve staggered him! [Aloud.] Lay but
- 2023-12-02knee-ribbons are bleached quite pale with the wind and
- 2023-12-02At certain seasons they catch also, in “corrales,”
- 2023-12-02Horatia. One would suppose them sometimes prophetical of
- 2023-12-02took it for a Whig. Indeed, your honour, last night....
- 2023-12-02no resistance, for it’s of no use. I’m sorry for you,
- 2023-12-02he often spent much time with the white foreman of the
- 2023-12-02one friend says, ‘keep a whole tableful laughing and
- 2023-12-02the sort of place to meet with a[40] ghost of Hamlet, not
- 2023-12-02with gold till you choke. Begone! Fly! [Exit Weasel.] Thirty
- 2023-12-02said that his boys were resting and gaining strength after
- 2023-12-02Horatia. [Raising her voice.] Who can deny that Hanover
- 2023-12-02evening! Such a phalanx of ladies as dear Mother is to
- 2023-12-02‘I have just come in from paying a round of visits, with
- 2023-12-02solid wall opened before her; it was another masked door.
- 2023-12-02old age would have been a mere weariness to[64] her, was
- 2023-12-02Horatia. Brain of adamant! could not instinct direct you
- 2023-12-02talking,’ without difficulty. In fact, whatever the dinner-parties
- 2023-12-02Max crossed the threshold hard upon her heels. Three descending
- 2023-12-02is to take luncheon with us, so we have amusement provided
- 2023-12-02place all the three Misses —— are coming. A comical
- 2023-12-02any one to be buried alive? What on earth do you mean?
- 2023-12-02forest, and utters very peculiar noises) has not cried
- 2023-12-02smile and sparkling conversation, effectually prevented
- 2023-12-02Aunt, Aunt, is there any supper prepared for the Colonel?
- 2023-12-02Charles. Add mire, you cruel wretches! is there not enough
- 2023-12-02wall. He staggered down again; his remarkable physical
- 2023-12-02Charles. My limbs can scarcely support me! O day of agony,
- 2023-12-02that all my brains lay at the root of my tongue; and the
- 2023-12-02Col. Not a word of him, Weasel, not a word of him! He’s
- 2023-12-02mist seemed to float above the water. This mist had a familiar
- 2023-12-02the heat, for it is warm walking at this hour, and I always
- 2023-12-02Judith, who never can refuse any one, ordered the spare
- 2023-12-02me. As for entering that vault, you may kill me before
- 2023-12-02then directed the ray of the little lamp toward the further
- 2023-12-02Weasel. Haven’t got the keys, Miss. If I might make bold
- 2023-12-02Daresby. What’s discovered, fellow, what deception? Who
- 2023-12-02that their object is gained and the Prince caught, the
- 2023-12-02Even as he realized the fact, the quarry vanished, and
- 2023-12-02yard to the Church, and the vault would be no bad hiding-place,
- 2023-12-02Daresby. [To the Colonel.] Are my political opinions suspected?
- 2023-12-02Charles. No more of that, Daresby. The farce is ended,
- 2023-12-02and he pulled up short, for, instinctively, he knew that
- 2023-12-02is “Glass” or “Mirror.” Fanny was the first to
- 2023-12-02be found in her letters. The death of Letitia, nearly twenty
- 2023-12-02thousand pounds and a baronetship! Sir Stephen Stumply!
- 2023-12-02‘beware’ for nothing.” They were soon anxious for
- 2023-12-02your eye on him. If he but raise his hand or turn his head—fire!
- 2023-12-02Barbara. Whose head being cleft from his shoulders as he
- 2023-12-02Horatia. Run, run, dearest Daresby, or you will be too
- 2023-12-02reward that they would win from him if they carried his
- 2023-12-02up also, for in this apparel I look more like a highwayman
- 2023-12-02Sophia. Did you not hear ‘Charles Stew—’ upon his
- 2023-12-02then turned about, and[33] with his left hand steadying
- 2023-12-02and phlox that drew him to the perfumed air of the garden,
- 2023-12-02Ah, if that wayward boy—the Pretender! the Pretender!
- 2023-12-02Charles. [Attempting to pass again.] Easier to keep a good
- 2023-12-02Weasel. Much the same as usual, your honour. Our only varieties
- 2023-12-02To his host he explained that he was moving his safari
- 2023-12-02yet my heart misgives me.[41] I must ‘screw my courage
- 2023-12-02No doubt these dinners were a ‘social duty’; and no
- 2023-12-02a card of admission in my hand.... My hand trembles with
- 2023-12-02often among the blooms beneath the great moon—the black-haired,
- 2023-12-02the kitchen, and the back-door leads straight across the
- 2023-12-02the Stage has brought me to a declining stage, if not a
- 2023-12-02there.... Sir de Lacy and Lady Evans, the Hinxmans and
- 2023-12-02The people here live chiefly on shell-fish and potatoes.
- 2023-12-02Horatia. All that woman ever attempted I am ready to perform.
- 2023-12-02and Khansah, being convicted, was hung. Charlotte, when
- 2023-12-02Charles. Why, ma’am, I think—I—I am decidedly of
- 2023-12-02steps were ahead of him, and then a long brick tunnel in
- 2023-12-02Col. Most comfortable. No traces of the pigs, ha, ha! none
- 2023-12-02Charles. My dear Father, I have used no deception except
- 2023-12-02noting down particulars of the above stirring episode,
- 2023-12-02one of our party was unable anywhere to purchase either
- 2023-12-02smile and sparkling conversation, effectually prevented
- 2023-12-02best position for them too, say I! Who would keep a prompter
- 2023-12-02and I remember in our earlier days. We must ask So-and-so;
- 2023-12-02The people here live chiefly on shell-fish and potatoes.
- 2023-12-02Col. Not the Prince! Then he is concealed in the house!
- 2023-12-02gulf! What if I were to stay here altogether, or set up
- 2023-12-02Charley, and Letitia,—came to live at No. 3, and were
- 2023-12-02and was clear of the oily water, now, and upon a sort of
- 2023-12-02life was always peculiarly ready to give praise to others.
- 2023-12-02Col. The girls—the young Ladies seem much grown, much
- 2023-12-02ground covered with frost—I subject to the rheumatics—and
- 2023-12-02big farm, evidently finding in the society of this rougher
- 2023-12-02Daresby. Mrs. Judith Rattleton, you are my friend, you
- 2023-12-02bundle, and stopping and panting and puffing? So says I,
- 2023-12-02wine, which was kept for the host alone, supposing it to
- 2023-12-02At certain seasons they catch also, in “corrales,”
- 2023-12-02party we shall have! There has been no letter from Lord
- 2023-12-02Daresby. Every sentence that I hear bewilders me yet more.
- 2023-12-02He so reminds me of you! His fair lady and sons were also
- 2023-12-02man more common interests than the cultured guests of Bwana
- 2023-12-02An amusing story is told about these large dinners. In
- 2023-12-02of his personal attractiveness. Open house was kept; and
- 2023-12-02O’Shan. [Retreating a step. Aside.] Murther! and the
- 2023-12-02to peer through the fog ahead, he turned and descended
- 2023-12-02old age would have been a mere weariness to[64] her, was
- 2023-12-02man. One day a guest requested leave to taste this especial
- 2023-12-02inhuman rites. Anything but the rites of hospitality. To
- 2023-12-02end of the apartment. A steady stream of dirty water was
- 2023-12-02adventure; but I am, like the rest of our dear party, quite
- 2023-12-02may have seemed to herself, her own presence, her bright
- 2023-12-02Horatia. Such a flow of eloquence, such a command of language.
- 2023-12-02gangway above which lowered a green and rotting wooden
- 2023-12-02Corp. Silence! Silence! halt! advance bending down and
- 2023-12-02the same! A strange misgiving[51] is on my soul; is it
- 2023-12-02been into a horse-pond! that I had died e’er I left it!
- 2023-12-02his face. A bank of yellow fog instantly enveloped him,
- 2023-12-02Weasel. Can’t go to the village no more, Miss, till I’ve
- 2023-12-02Under what false and shameful pretences have you entered
- 2023-12-02This is Papa’s opinion, but we cannot decide till we
- 2023-12-02He divided his small following into two parties, entrusting
- 2023-12-02a tail, I guess. Well, Weasel, how has all gone on these
- 2023-12-02Horatia. Fly! fly! while yet there is a moment’s respite.
- 2023-12-02followed, how many ladies would come.” ... Papa has had
- 2023-12-02bivouacked near us. They had no shelter during the rain.
- 2023-12-02Charley, and Letitia,—came to live at No. 3, and were
- 2023-12-02Horatia. Brain of adamant! could not instinct direct you
- 2023-12-02Col. The girls—the young Ladies seem much grown, much
- 2023-12-02the ray of light from Max's lamp impinged upon the opening
- 2023-12-02Eighteen months later an offer was made by Government of
- 2023-12-02the use of carrying one’s brains so high, that one must
- 2023-12-02the right hand on the top of the outer wall, he fired his
- 2023-12-02and go into permanent camp just beyond the great river
- 2023-12-02Daresby. Sophy, Sophy, if you are still the ingenuous being
- 2023-12-02only from Bombay, so that letters being all we must expect
- 2023-12-02Horatia. [Sinking on a chair.] I am exhausted. Stupid sticks,
- 2023-12-02in all the finer points of big game hunting. Of an evening
- 2023-12-02suspect anything? That sneaking wretch, Weasel! Hark, I
- 2023-12-02on for one half-hour he may be saved. I must go and put
- 2023-12-02Weasel. Much the same as usual, your honour. Our only varieties
- 2023-12-02gate, but the apparatus was out of his reach, and he had
- 2023-12-02Horatia. Here then we have arrived at the spot. Descend,
- 2023-12-02blockhead, and would not know a prince from a pancake!
- 2023-12-02a Wanderer, and asked for a night’s lodging. So Mrs.
- 2023-12-02man more common interests than the cultured guests of Bwana
- 2023-12-02‘We think that the solution of my noble Father’s enigma
- 2023-12-02Scene laid in Northumberland, in and near the house of
- 2023-12-02a cold. I wish that I had never left the tallow business,
- 2023-12-02And thus matters stood when, one hot night, Meriem, unable
- 2023-12-02as we were partners in ambition. We both sought to play
- 2023-12-02done with theatrical effects,—I wish that I had done
- 2023-12-02The Tuckers were much in society, as may indeed have been
- 2023-12-02An instant he hesitated. Through the corridor ahead of
- 2023-12-02the pretty little dark-eyed Letitia, then only two years
- 2023-12-02such fortune! Hang me if I could not—but there’s not
- 2023-12-02and I thought it a nice one, but —— considered it very
- 2023-12-02the leadership of each to men whom he believed that he
- 2023-12-02Horatia. Your Father cannot—he is exiled from his native
- 2023-12-02The habit of the family at this time, while spending the
- 2023-12-02overheard Miss Ratty whispering Miss Sophy, and she said,
- 2023-12-02tables, and lifting Helen Cumberly, carried her half-way
- 2023-12-02breaking into smaller parties. In 1846 they were at Herne
- 2023-12-02must return in two hours. The poor woman’s husband was
- 2023-12-02blockhead, and would not know a prince from a pancake!