Some years ago he had formed the romantic idea of educating a wife for himself, and having found a beautiful, artless girl in the New Forest, he had taken her under his care on the death of her grandmother.
The Water Sprite About a century ago an aged fisherman sat mending his nets by his cottage door, in front of a lovely lake.
Ten million years ago your world was also a scene of innocence and tranquil felicity.
I heard my husband say some months ago that he had made some slight loss in the City," said Mrs Cruden, "but I imagined from the light manner in which he treated it that it was quite trifling, and would be quickly repaired.
Had any one told Reginald a week ago what would be taking place to-day, he would have coloured up indignantly and hoped he was not quite such a prig as all that.
You were kind enough to send me a communication not long ago about--well, about a suit of clothes.
What had they to do with men-servants and coffee in the drawing-room, they who an hour or two ago had supposed themselves wealthy, but now knew that they were little better than beggars?
He intended to close with an offer he had received some time ago from a firm in the country to act as their clerk; and although the sacrifice was considerable, still the country air and change of scene he felt would do him good.
Not half an hour ago he had been lying with his brother and companions on the tennis lawn, utterly unconscious of any impending calamity.
The French of thirty-four years ago travelled so little that they may have believed in the description.
The origin of the red shirt might have remained in poetic uncertainty had it not been mentioned a few years ago in a volume of reminiscences published by an English naval officer.
My friends," he began, in the indulgent tone of a grieved parent, "the gentleman who spoke a moment ago was quite right in remarking that this is a meeting of citizens.
Perry recommended me, and Mr. Montgomery asked me to the house a few evenings ago to talk it over.
I thought it was understood long ago that we had dropped Lois.
They had long ago spurned their sister with bitterness, and his speculations as to the real object of their visit had not touched the remote horizons against which Lois was vaguely limned.
Only a little while ago we had to get you to bed by eight, and it used to bother me a lot about your duds; but we've outgrown that trouble.
Fauns and nymphs tripped thus to wild music in the enchanted long ago when the world was young.
The date interested him only passively; it had longago ceased to affect him emotionally.
Their father's estate had long ago been distributed, and Amzi had not troubled himself as to the subsequent fate of the money he had paid to his sisters.
Some old schoolmate threw a brick at me awhile ago when I went out for air and that annoyed me," Amzi admitted.
I saw an automobile come out of your place awhile ago and climb the hill toward town.
Several years ago the boy announced the death of an aunt shortly before a telegram confirmed his prophesy.
He left Locklear in Canada three weeks ago and had planned to rejoin him in a week.
Several weeks ago Mrs. Smith says she was sleeping soundly when Whistler appeared in a dream.
About 26 years ago I was working in the West near the mining country, and one night I dreamed I was in a mining town, the name of which I did not know in my dream, nor had I ever seen it in reality.
I can recommend you one who hanged himself some years ago in the town over yonder.
Paragraph 3 Nearly thirty years ago a mentor said to me, "There are two kinds of people in the world: those who get ulcers and those who give them to others.
Paragraph 5 Until about two decades ago the duPonts ran Delaware as a company town, and they ran a tight ship.
Paragraph 4 They took his statue down a year or so ago to fix it, and its massive plinth looks like a ruin standing across the street from the Hotel du Pont that takes up most of the block on the west of the Square.
Her maid Lucille was taken very ill a few days ago and she allowed her to go to her brother who lives on Ninth Street.
About six months ago this gang attacked the house of Ewuz Mahommed, in Dewa, plundered it, levelled it with the ground, and took off all the timbers to their fort of Kasimgunge.
Three years ago he attacked the house of Janoo, a shopkeeper, plundered it, and confined and tortured him till he paid a ransom of two hundred and fifty rupees.
Four months ago his gang seized two carts laden with valuable property belonging to Seodeen subahdar, of the Honourable Company's service.
Six months ago he attacked a marriage-procession in Dewa, plundered it, took off the bridegroom, Omed Allee, and confined and tortured him till he paid eleven hundred and fifteen rupees.
There was a very favourite game played hundreds of years agoin Asia, called 'Kings and Subjects.
Sixty years ago the annual consumption of cocoa amounted to only a quarter of a million pounds, but now it has reached a total of probably not less than twelve millions of pounds.
Some time ago a child fell off Oreston Pier, near Plymouth, and had drifted out about seven yards in twelve feet of water, when a little boy, nine years old, named S.
I can't; an' I can call to mind as long ago as when Robbie was the baby, an father died.
She was completely in the power of a man whom she detested--a man upon whom she looked as her father's evil genius, as one whose evil counsel had long ago led her father to that act which he had atoned for by remorse and death.
It was a principle of Mr. McDonald never to lose his presence of mind or his temper, or the smooth, low tone of voice he had cultivated years ago and practiced since with so good effect.
And yet a month or twoago he was giving champagne and iced puddings for dinner!
Two years ago she had been told that it was hers; since that, she had been told that it was not hers.
Not longago there was a lady in this town, loved and respected by all who knew her.
I now ascertain that some of the inferior law courts have, under what pressure I know not, set aside the will which was made twenty years ago in favour of the Mackenzie family, and given to you the property which did belong to them.
Years ago John Morgan became impressed with the idea that he was fitted for literary work and began to write short stories for magazines, under nom de plume.
Nearly thirty years ago she left me--without a farewell until too late, with no human being in all the world to love, none to care for me.
Fifteen minutes ago a hopeless prisoner, and now free!
She came," he said, "years agoand offered me gold.
But I happened to be in what you call a brown study, and as I had heard you were shot long ago on the llanos you rather startled me, coming in so quietly--that rascally boy ought to have announced you.
Only a moment ago the land had been folded in the mantle of darkness.
Three years ago I was one of a family of eight, and no happier family could be found in the whole capitanio-general of Caracas.
If I had not killed him he would have killed me, and years ago he tried to hunt me to death for his amusement.
Three years ago I met Giessler at the meeting of the British Association, and, though he denied it, he was palpably aging.
I told you a short time ago that I was once hunted by a pack of hounds.
A few weeks ago my cousin (whose favourite thou always wast) died and left thee his heir—left thee the goodly farm in which he lived.
Centuries ago thou couldst extort the praises even of the fiercest foes of England.
Had the Church of England known its true interests, it would long ago have sought a reconciliation with its illustrious mother.
It may be about seven years ago that I happened to be far down yonder to the west, on the other side of England, nearly two hundred miles from here, following my business.
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