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... HORACE CHANGES HIS MIND 139 VII MR . SLINGSBY INVITES SUSPICION 153 • VIII A JOB FOR PERCY PILBEAM 163 · IX THE CHASE BEGINS 172 · • X THE CHASE CONTINUES 186 XI THE CHASE ENDS XII A VISITOR FOR MR . PARADENE XIII BILL MAKES A DISCOVERY ...
... HORACE CHANGES HIS MIND 139 VII MR . SLINGSBY INVITES SUSPICION 153 • VIII A JOB FOR PERCY PILBEAM 163 · IX THE CHASE BEGINS 172 · • X THE CHASE CONTINUES 186 XI THE CHASE ENDS XII A VISITOR FOR MR . PARADENE XIII BILL MAKES A DISCOVERY ...
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... Horace ! Come here , Horace . " Through the doorway there shuffled a small , knicker- bockered figure . " Horace , " said Mr. Paradene , " let me present you to the family ! " The boy stared for a moment in silence . He was a sturdy ...
... Horace ! Come here , Horace . " Through the doorway there shuffled a small , knicker- bockered figure . " Horace , " said Mr. Paradene , " let me present you to the family ! " The boy stared for a moment in silence . He was a sturdy ...
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... Horace , the realization of the sort of family he had allowed himself to be adopted into seemed to have taken all the sunshine out of his life . He was the first to speak , and his words revealed what was weighing upon his mind . " Do I ...
... Horace , the realization of the sort of family he had allowed himself to be adopted into seemed to have taken all the sunshine out of his life . He was the first to speak , and his words revealed what was weighing upon his mind . " Do I ...
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... Horace here is a boy of splendid physique , great intelligence , sterling character , and wonderful disposi- tion . I hold - and I am glad to say that he agrees with me -that it is better for Mr. Paradene to devote his money to the ...
... Horace here is a boy of splendid physique , great intelligence , sterling character , and wonderful disposi- tion . I hold - and I am glad to say that he agrees with me -that it is better for Mr. Paradene to devote his money to the ...
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... Horace in his home . " She attached a lead to Willie - dog's collar , and made for the door . " Good - bye , Uncle Cooley , " she said , turning . “ I consider I have been grossly and heartlessly insulted . " " Hey ! " exclaimed Horace ...
... Horace in his home . " She attached a lead to Willie - dog's collar , and made for the door . " Good - bye , Uncle Cooley , " she said , turning . “ I consider I have been grossly and heartlessly insulted . " " Hey ! " exclaimed Horace ...
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Alice Coker asked Bastable Battersea began BILL THE CONQUEROR Bill West Bill's Cooley Paradene Cousin Evelyn door eyes face feeling fellow felt Flick Flick Sheridan garden gazed girl going Hammond hand happened head Holly House Horace hors d'œuvres Judson Coker knew letter London look lunch Mammoth Publishing Company Mario's Marmont Mansions marry mind Miss Coker Miss Stryker mood morning never night Number once P. G. WODEHOUSE paper Paradene Paradene's Percy Pilbeam Professor Appleby Roderick Pyke round seemed Sinclair Hammond Sir George Pyke Sir George's Slingsby's Sloane Square smile Society Spice sort staring Street suddenly suppose talk tell there's thing thought Tilbury House Toddy van Riter told trying turned Uncle Cooley Uncle George Uncle Jasper Uncle Sinclair voice waiting walked Waterloo Station What's Wilfrid Slingsby window wonder word
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Page 54 - ... the last thing at night and the first thing in the morning, I drank it gratefully and was very sensible of his attention.
Page 42 - Crying never yet got anybody anywhere, So just stick out your chin AND JAM all your troubles in a great big box And sit on the lid and grin.
Page 57 - I hold — and I am glad to say that he agrees with me — that it is better for Mr. Paradene to devote his money to the rearing and training of such a boy than to spend it on relatives who — may I say — have little future and from whom he can expect — pardon me — but small returns. Mr. Paradene intends to found a family that looks forward instead of back. A family of — er — comers instead of a family of hasbeens.
Page 279 - ... Humor, and Shakespeare," 1876.] After Hamlet's interview with the Ghost, the "antic disposition" which tints his behavior is ironical. . . . The subsequent behavior of Hamlet is the exact counterpart in Irony of the conviction that was so suddenly thrust upon him, and terribly emphasized by his father, that " a man may smile and smile, and be a villain.
Page 111 - Not a bad idea, your coming too," he admitted. "Quite likely fellow may turn nasty. Then you could sit on his head while I kicked him in the slats. Only way with these birds. Treat 'em rough.
Page 128 - is Roderick Pyke. That's why I'm running away." This struck Bill as a non sequitur. Women do eccentric things, but surely the most temperamental girl would hardly leave her home simply because a man's name was Roderick Pyke. "They wanted me to marry him.
Page 319 - Look at Pierpont Morgan and Henry Ford and Selfridge and all of them — they don't do the work themselves. They just sit and let other people do it for them. That's what shows they are such great men.
Page 23 - Company, basked in the sunshine in the garden of Holly House, his residence on Wimbledon Common. There was a notebook on his knee, and he was scribbling industriously with a stubby pencil.
Page 24 - There was a notebook on his knee, and he was scribbling industriously with a stubby pencil. when summer came, it would, he knew, blaze very nobly with many-coloured flowers. There were smooth lawns, hedges of lavender, and a decent-sized stone pool with goldfish.
Page 268 - Oh, yes, I know what you're going to say. You're going to say that you're not asking for anything, and that you're quite well off as you are.