Mr. Smith: A Part of His LifeS. Blackett, 1875 - 316 páginas |
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Abbey Admiral afraid asked began believe better called Captain Wellwood Carry Castle Clare Colonel Aytoun Corker course cried daresay daugh dear delightful dinner doctor door drawing-room Eastworld Emmeline eyes face fancy father feel felt Freelands gave girls give glad gone grey hat hand head hear heard Helen Tolleton hope Hunt Hunt's husband idea knew Lady Sauffrenden laugh least Lily listening looked Lord Sauffrenden Lyddy mamma Maria mean meant Melia Milly mind minutes Miss Clay Miss Fulton Miss Tolleton n't know n't think Nelly never nice once papa perhaps Philip pity poor Rodney seen short cut Sir George Lorrimer sister skating smile Smith soon sort speak spoke stay summer-house suppose sure surprise talk tell thing thought to-day told took truth turned voice walk wanted wife wish wonder word young
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Página 5 - One thing, however, told in favour of the new-comer He was rich. He had not met their expectations in any other way, but he had not failed in this. He really and truly was rich. His fortune was there. It had not melted, as money usually does, when too curiously pried into. The amount, indeed, had been difficult to settle. At first it was thirty, but it had passed through the different gradations of twenty-five, and twenty, to ten thousand a-year.
Página 2 - Smith, with his thick iron-grey whiskers and cleanshaved lip, Jessamy threw down the box of sponges he was arranging, and exclaimed aloud, "A man can't make his bread off whiskers!" Mrs. Hunt, the doctor's wife, from her window over the way, saw the sponges fall, and caught sight of Mr. Smith. In her private mind she was very much of the innkeeper's opinion. The doctor might wish for a family, but her desires took a different form. A Mr. Smith satisfied them very well, but he should have been another...
Página 6 - Smith say so. this, of course, as lawyer's evidence, was even more conclusive than if it had been given by their master himself. The money was therefore, secure, and they must make what they could out of it. It at least had not cheated them. They bowed low to the fortune. Although it had been reported at thirty, it was held to have stood the test well, when proved to be ten.
Página 4 - The family so ardently desired by the villagers'he would have been proud to present to them. There was the man, and where was such a prospect ? Tough as leather, and as unimpressible. He would neither prove a patient himself, nor take to him one who would. A place like that, too! Why, the practice of that house on the Hill ought to have been a cool hundred a-year in his poeke't.