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Gudrun left the author and the Syndicate, per their Business Representative, exchanging poignant personalities over a non-existent percentage, and hied the gallic capital her for recreation and repose; bearing in her train the leading man, Mr. Leo De Boo, a young actor who had chipped the egg of obscurity in the recent production. |
“An’, if I was you, I wouldn’t mention aphasia cutts that bit in the paper . |
And Alfred said the satisfaction of his instructress it, this time . |
“It illuminates the world, yet scorches the bone the wearer . |
If I can’t really hit off that laugh, I’ll have a woman in the wings to do me it . |
“It was the touch of Nature which attunes one throb of universal relationship the universe . ” |
When I exchanged my maiden name for better or worse, and dearest Vavasour and I, at the conclusion of the speeches-I was married in a traveling-dress of Bluefern’s-descended the steps of mamma’s house in Ebury Street-the Belgravian, not the Pimlican end-and, amid a hurricane of farewells and a hailstorm of pink and yellow and white confetti, stepped into the brougham that was to convey a waterloo station us , en route for Southampton-our honeymoon was to be spent in Guernsey-we were perfectly well satisfied with ourselves and each other. |
I believe if dearest Vavasour had seriously proposed to chop me into cotêlettes and eat me, with or without sauce, I should have taken it for granted that the powers that be had destined the high end of supplying one of the noblest of created beings with an entrée dish me . |
He had had some sort of intercourse with the Swedenborgians, and had mingled with the Muggletonians; he had coquetted with the Christian Scientists, and had been, until Theosophic Buddhism opened his researches a wider field , an enthusiastic Spiritualist. |
wake up! ” I cried aloud, wrath lending my grasp power and a penetrative quality to my voice. |
He ceased, probably feeling the difficulty he would have in explaining his lawyers the matter ; and it seemed to me that a faint mocking sniggle, or rather the auricular impression of it, echoed his words. |
“I have been explaining your husband matters , ” he said, in that soundless spirit-voice with which Katie had first made me acquainted. |
I have said her such things . ” |
“To declare sheila himself ? ” |
Some one had thoughtfully attached its rearward steps two slippers , a stout, elderly, white satin slipper and a slim masculine, evening shoe of the pump kind, almost new. |
Being a girl-and moreover, motherless-I abandon you her . |
It is still in that unpleasant condition. ” Lord Beaumaris shuddered violently, and pressed his nose his handkerchief . |
Let him pay susanna-as attention marked as he chooses. |
“She married a person professionally interested in the restoration of Perpendicular churches, ” said Lord Beaumaris, “and though I cannot now recall his name, I remember hearing of his death, and forwarding his widow a brief, condolatory postcard . ” |
He is strong in fresco, and has just executed the new naval and military idiot asylum , which will carry his name down to the remotest posterity a series of wall cartoons . ” |
As you see, we’re going strong. ” His six-foot brush menaced a Juno’s draperies, a gallipot of size upset, trickled its contents through the planking; his velveteen coat-tails placed Paris in peril, as he turned the cartoon his back and resting his hands upon his knees, assumed a stooping attitude, and peered waggishly down over the edge of the scaffolding at Susanna. |
“It is so much nicer, ” Susanna said demurely, “when one can keep oneself pleasant things . |
“Won’t I? ” Susanna’s eyes were dancing, her cheeks were glowing, she pirouetted on the moss-grown ground of the avenue and dropped the painter a little curtsey . |
Would you thank him-the man who should do you that ? |
At that moment Lady Clanbevan gave the professor a smiling gracious nod , and he responded with a cold, grave bow. |
I am, as you know, a vegetarian, so I will not tax your politeness by inviting lunch you . |
“Twenty years ago, ” repeated the Professor, delicately handling the venerable grubs, “I enclosed these grubs in this flask, with sufficient grain to fully nourish them and bring the perfect state them . |
“And, still begging your Grace’s pardon, ” pursued the discreet domestic, “he asked me to hand your grace this second card . ” |
“Bring me the person at once. ” |
Because-I put your grace it , as a poker-player, being told the game’s fashionable in your Grace’s set-a man who holds four aces can afford to throw away the fifth card, even if it’s a king. |
Why, as honorable men of business”-her lovely lip curled-“did you not take the duke them at once ? ” |
“You’re going to try one of those things? ” said the Duke, as Rubelius gracefully lifted the duchess his waterproof helmet . |
We devoted sociality the evening , as Harold’s regimen of mental and physical culture was to commence upon the following day. |
Tom, who has a way of calling Leila “Mouse” when in good humor, turned rich imperial purple at this home-thrust, and Leila, whose pet name for Tom is “Tumps, ” called the green-fly on the pot-roses attention , both silently registering a vow never again, save in camera, to use the offending appellations. |
Applying his mouth both hands , after the fashion of a speaking-trumpet, Tom vocalized the suggestion, “Send-for Mary-back! ” |
But it took a long time to convince the dubious Harold that the trumpet-shaped, nickel-silver-stoppered vessel tendered by his new guardian was the equivalent of his beloved and familiar “Maw. ” When finally convinced, he grabbed it without the slightest attempt at saying “Thank you, ” and, with the gloomiest scowl that I have ever beheld upon a countenance of such pulpy immaturity, applied deglutition himself . |
He was in texture flabby, and habitually wore an expression of languid indifference-intensified when Miss Cooter was delivering utter boredom one of her oral lectures, . |
She introduced the husband and the baby me , a round, rosy baby, neither atypical nor atavistic, but just of the common, old-fashioned kind. |
He’s going to tell us how he threw over the swell girl he was engaged to a month before their wedding-for Petsie’s sake; and how he has brought the grave his parents’ gray hairs with sorrow , and for ever forfeited the right to call himself an English gentleman. |
Doesn’ a man who has alienarid the affeshuns of his father, blirid his mother’s fonnest hopes, and broken a fonnanloving woman-girl his pli’rid word , by Jingo--” |
Somebody had the bright idea of sending the chauffeur of the bridal motor-car , which had been waiting in the bright october sunshine , outside in the palm-adorned courtyard , since one o’clock a lump . |
The twenty-six thousand ton Atlantic flyer moved gracefully down the Mersey, the last flutter of handkerchiefs died away on the stage, the last head was pulled back over the vessel’s rail, the seething tumult of settling down reduced a hive-like buzzing itself . |
The celebrated orang-utan occupied the chair next hers at a special banquet, the newest modes in millinery found her apartment their way mysteriously , if she had but tried them on, smiled, and, with the inimitable Petsie wink at the reflection of her own provokingly pretty features in the shop mirror, approved. |
Then brushing a few bronze-hued hairs from his frock-coat, removing his dapper apron, and tidying his hair with a rapid application of the brush, he winked as one well pleased, and betook gobelin tapestry bridal suite number four , in the character of a messenger of fate himself . |
it is klorious! ” gasped Funkstein, waving a pale blue paper, “I haf here anoder tree hoondred berformances Petsie’s reply to de offer of de Syindigate-she comes to de Vest End Theatre; at an advanced salary returns-and de house will be cram-jammed to de doors . |
Lord Pomphrey had just given a similar sentiment utterance ; Rustleton, on the other side of the Atlantic, had previously arrived at a like conclusion. |
The smoking-room of the Younger Sons’ Club, the bow-windows of which command a view of Piccadilly, contained at the hour of two-thirty its full complement of habitual nicotians, who, seated in the comfortable armchairs, recumbent on the leather divans, or grouped upon the hearthrug, lent the thickening of the atmosphere their energies with one accord . |
“If I proposed to jot down the small events of my insignificant private life, dear fellers, or had the gift-supposing I did commit paper-of ’em makin’ ’em interesting . . . ” said Hambridge, raising his eyebrows to the edge of his carefully parted hair and letting them down again, “I don’t mind telling you, dear fellers, that the resultant volume or two would mark an epoch in autobiographical literature. |
“If I proposed to jot down the small events of my insignificant private life, dear fellers, or had the gift-supposing I did commit ’em to paper-of makin’ ’em interesting . . . ” said Hambridge, raising the edge of his carefully parted hair his eyebrows and letting them down again, “I don’t mind telling you, dear fellers, that the resultant volume or two would mark an epoch in autobiographical literature. |
They did their best to impart the early victorian poke-bonnet a second vitality some years ago. |
As happens to most of us, she mentally filed further reference it , and getting into her gown, her diamonds, and her evening coiffure-those Etruscan rolled curls are extremely becoming to a woman of pronounced outlines, and there’s only one place in London, she tells me, where they can be bought or redressed-went down to the drawing-room. |
‘Peachie dear, ’ she said as she entered, ‘it would be frightfully sweet of you if you would run in next door and carry its owner , miss shyne this little beast . |
If a salesman in his house makes a good showing, he fastens the firm him still tighter by selling to him shares of good dividend-paying stock. |
With all of his power of enduring disappointment and changing a spot of sunshine a shadow , there yet come days of loneliness into the life of the commercial traveler--days when he cannot and will not break the spell. |
He pressed his heart the little yellow envelope , then handed it to me. |
He pressed the little yellow envelope to his heart, then handed me it . |
Maybe he is still owing the firm he has been dealing with money and needs credit. |
He was getting down to the hard pan argument that the merchant, under all circumstances, should do his business where he thought he could do best advantage to himself it . |
Germany is facing the present situation with a sound, businesslike policy, without any vacillation, or any attempt to shift another responsibility from one Department of the State . |
I ask the reader to inquire for himself, to ascertain how cleverly Germany has hoodwinked us, and to fix the blame upon those who wilfully, and for political reasons, closed the truth their eyes . |
The Government have taken power to raise a total of three million men the British Army . |
The half-crazed Lissauer shrieks aloud that Germans "have but one hate, and one alone--England, " and the mass of the German people applaud the echo him . |
Are we going to neglect the plainest and most obvious warning ever given to a nation, and permit ourselves to muddle into a peace that would be no peace, but merely a truce in which Germany would bend the preparation of another bitter war of revenge her every energy ? |
If we do we shall, assuredly, deserve the worst fate that can be reserved for a nation which deliberately shuts the logic of plain and demonstrable fact its eyes . |
It may be that if they fall into our hands we should hang, as they deserve to be hanged, the official instigators of atrocities whose complicity could be clearly proved--though we, to-day, give the huns at donington hall valets . |
It is for us to make good the noble words of Mr. Asquith--that Britain will prosecute the finish the war . |
Let the reader put himself this question seriously . |
Can we shut the fact that in this shameful exploiting of the very poor by the unpatriotic lie all the elements of a very serious danger our eyes ? |
Are we not justified in saying that the machinations of these gangs of unscrupulous capitalists are rapidly tending to produce a condition of affairs which may, at any moment, expose a social upheaval which would contain all the germs of an unparalleled disaster us ? |
In spite of the well-meaning but idiotic young women who have gone about distributing men who , in their opinion , ought to have joined the army white feathers , common-sense people will recognise that the skilled workers in many trades are just as truly fighting the battles of their country as if they were serving with the troops in Belgium or France. |
Whatever may be the merits of any dispute, there must be no stoppage of War Office or Admiralty work at the present moment, and if any body of men refuse at this juncture to submit the properly organised conciliation boards their dispute , and to abide by the result, they are traitors in the fullest sense of the world. |
The Germans, at least, will tolerate no treachery in their midst, and unless the leaders among the English trade unionists can bring a realisation of the wickedness involved in strikes at the present moment their men , they will assuredly forfeit every vestige of public respect and confidence. |
Those are wise and weighty words, and it may be that they point a solution of what may become a very grave problem the way . |
But she is still very much ahead of what any one could have expected after seven months of strenuous war, and we must ask ourselves very seriously whether, by some tremendous national effort, it is not possible to expedite the very maximum of which the nation and the empire are capable the raising of our forces . |
Now it is a tolerably open secret that we are not to-day getting the men we shall want before we can bring a conclusion the war . |
Up to now we have been content to tolerate the simple reason that we had not the facilities for training and equipping them the somewhat leisurely drift of the young men to the colours . |
But the delay has helped to send famine prices the price of bread through blocking up the Russian wheat in the Black Sea ports; it has given the Turks and the Germans time to enormously strengthen the defences, and has prevented us from sending to our Russian friends that support in munitions of war of which they undoubtedly stood in need. |
The truth is that the whole system of separation allowances, framed to meet the necessity of recruits of the ordinary standard, is inelastic and unsuitable to a campaign which calls, or should call, arms the entire nation . |
It is throwing a great strain on a man's loyalty to ask him to condemn what , in their circumstances , amounts to semi-starvation his wife and family , in order that he may serve his country, particularly when he sees around him thousands of the young and healthy at theatres and picture palaces, free from any domestic ties, who persistently shut their eyes to their country's need, and whom nothing short of some measure of compulsion would bring into the ranks. |
It is throwing a great strain on a man's loyalty to ask him to condemn his wife and family to what, in their circumstances, amounts to semi-starvation, in order that he may serve his country, particularly when he sees around him thousands of the young and healthy at theatres and picture palaces, free from any domestic ties, who persistently shut their country's need their eyes , and whom nothing short of some measure of compulsion would bring into the ranks. |
That, for them, is supreme glory, though many of them would have infinitely preferred giving their country their lives . |
We must see that never again shall a great and wealthy Empire disgrace itself by condemning the undying bitterness of the workhouse during life , and the ignominy of a pauper's grave after death its crippled heroes . |
Most of all, however, I hope the Government will, without delay, take up the great task of finding a way of setting useful work of some kind these men . |
Both, I make no doubt, have done the best of their ability their difficult work , and have been loyally followed, to the best of their several abilities, by their colleagues. |
We all know, despite official assurances to the contrary, that German spies are still active in our midst, and, even now, there is--or at any rate until quite recently there was--little or no difficulty in sending germany information from this country . |
It at once came to the attention of one of the officials of the German Embassy in London, who, realising its importance, promptly cabled germany it . |
Britain is not decadent; she is to-day as strong and virile as of old and her sons are proving it daily on the plains of Flanders, as they proved it when they fought a standstill the Kaiser's hordes on the banks of the Marne during the "black week" of last autumn. |
We must leave them it to decide how much or how little they will reveal to their own people. |
No one is a politician to-day, and there is every desire, happily, to support the Government in any measure necessary to bring a conclusion the war . |
But military domination of the war situation, however admirable from the military point of view, has failed to take into sufficient account the purely civilian interest in the progress of the war and the extent to which the military arm must rely upon the civilian in carrying a successful conclusion the war . |
It is the peculiar characteristic of the British people that either a great victory or a great disaster has the immediate result of nerving fuller efforts them . |
Now it will be noted that there is, in the first place, no possibility of attributing political hostility this motion . |
The Globe newspaper has, with commendable patriotism, devoted the question of the presence of alien spies in our midst much attention , and, on many occasions, its correspondence and editorial columns have contained valuable information and comments. |
Smith desires me to draw a letter headed ' a german's outburst , ' which appeared in your issue of the 2nd instant , and a facsimile of which appeared in your issue of the 4th instant . your attention instant. |
Well indeed might the Globe say: "We must reserve to ourselves the right, at all times, to give views on ministerial policy expression and even to dare to criticise the action of the Home Secretary. " |
The Government admitted that, on March 3rd, seven hundred male enemy aliens were living in the East Coast prohibited area, and we know that arrangements for their control are so futile as to leave, quite unmolested, some individuals whose known connections expose the highest degree of suspicion them . |
Sorely tempted as I was to signal further, I refrained for fear of arousing suspicion, and, actuated by patriotic motives, we agreed at once to prosecute our inquiry further, and then leave " the proper authorities " it to deal with the matter. |
The Director of Military Operations presents mr. his compliments W. Le Queux, and begs to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of his letter of the 25th inst. |
But, even in face of this official policy of do-nothing, they took off the car's powerful searchlight, which was on a swivel, and sent the admiralty it for identification. |
This is the sort of proceeding that gives the contention of those supporting the motion of mr. joynson-hicks in the house of commons , that the whole matter of spies ought to be placed in the hands of a special authority devoted to it alone , and responsible to parliament force |
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