¡®It really all passed off very tolerably,¡¯ she said; ¡®do you not think so, my dear? And was it not gratifying? Just as the dear Princess shook hands with me for the second time before she drove away, holding my hand quite a long time, she said, ¡°And I hear your friends will not call you Mrs Keeling very much longer.¡± Was not that delicately put? How common Lady Inverbroom looked beside her, but, after all, we can¡¯t all be princesses. I was told by the lady-in-waiting, who was a very civil sort of woman indeed, that Her Royal Highness was going to stay with the poor Inverbrooms next month. I can hardly believe that: I should not think it was at all a likely sort of thing to happen, but I felt I really ought to warn Mrs{249}¡ªI did not quite catch her name¡ªwhat a very poor sort of dinner her mistress would get, if she fared no better than we did. But we must keep our ears open next month to find out if it really does happen, though I dare say we shall be the first to know, for after to-day Lady Inverbroom could scarcely fail to ask us to dine and sleep again.¡¯ George greeted the travellers with all the dignity of an emperor saluting an embassy from a brother emperor, and wished them welcome to his roof and all beneath it. Then he straightened up to the very highest line of erectness, and rested his gaze upon Doctor Bronson. LADIES' HAIR-DRESSER. LADIES' HAIR-DRESSER. "Why, I suppose I'm to find there a road down Cole's Creek to Clifton." XXVI A SALUTE ACROSS THE DEAD-LINE "Why! she's got to be everywhere! She's a war-correspondent! She was at the front yesterday nearly the whole time, near enough to see some of the fighting, and to hear it all! she calls it 'only a skirmish'!" "Smith, I rejoice! O--oh! I rejoice and am glad when I'm reviled and persecuted by the hounds of hell, and spoken evil against falsely for my religion's sake." "I don't know." The thin voice sounded like someone shouting in the distance. "How should I know? It's all so difficult. But don't make it more difficult than you can help. Keep smiling¡ªlaughter¡ªsuch a jolly little world." Very gradually the measure quickened, the pitch grew shriller, and with faster and freer movements the bayad¨¨res were almost leaping in a sort of delirium produced by the increasing noise, and the constantly growing number of lights. In the city, which is swept and cleaned till it is hard to believe oneself among Hindoos, there are six hundred tanks, for the most part stagnant, in which the natives wash themselves and their clothes. Round others, which are gradually being appropriated to the use of the residents, and all about the houses, bamboos are planted and "flame of the forest," covered with enormous red star-shaped blossoms as solid as fruit, and trees curtained with creepers of fragile growth¡ªone long garden extending almost to the bazaar. ¡°She did not know she was throwing them over!¡± "You speak with the utmost fluency, my daughter,"[Pg 47] he had commended, and she had explained that she found expression more easy in French. CULLODEN HOUSE. (From a Photograph by G. W. Wilson and Co., Aberdeen.) Whilst these contentions were going on, Wren had entered fairly on his profession of architect. He built the Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford, begun in 1663, and completed in 1669; and the fine library of Trinity College, Cambridge, and the beautiful square, Neville's Court, to the same college. He also built the chapels of Pembroke and Emmanuel Colleges, in the same university. In the erection of these, he suffered, from the conceit and conflicting opinions of parties concerned, a foretaste of the squabbles and contradictions which rendered the whole period of the building of St. Paul's miserable. In 1665 he found leisure to visit Paris, and study the magnificent palaces and churches with which Louis XIV. was embellishing his capital. There he got a glimpse of the design for the Louvre, which Bernini, the architect, showed him, but only for a moment; and he was in communication with Mansard, Le Vau, and Le Pautre. The old man dropped the lines, and for an instant gazed at him with scared eyes. FROM: John Harrison HoMEÔ»º«Ò»¼¶Ã«Æ¬ Å·ÃÀ1¼¶1ëƬENTER NUMBET 002www.shikongcode.org.cn www.twyoyo.cn www.zen222.cn hbszw.cn www.source365.cn www.mocape.com.cn iromantic.cn pioodp.cn cangzhoupeizi.cn 0724f.com.cn