Francis William Lauderdale Adams

Name: A Child of the Age — PartII: Chapter I.
Author: Francis William Lauderdale Adams

A Child of the Age — PartII: Chapter I. (1894)

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“A Child of the Age — PartII: Chapter I.”, published in 1894, is a work by Francis William Lauderdale Adams. It explores elements such as Cholmeley, Rayne and tick.

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — PartII: Chapter I. (1894)

“ Cholmeley and perceiving his eyes still closed, answered rather diffidently:
'It means, passing the cry on to one another like the watchword, I think.'
'Yes,' said Rayne, 'but I never got as far as that! I read some Xenophon last January,' she added to me, 'but it was frightfully uninteresting, I thought. Nothing but: Thence he marches nineteen stages, twenty-seven parasangs to—some place or other; a city populous, prosperous and great. ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — PartII: Chapter I. (1894)

“ Mr. Cholmeley was seized with a sudden and violent fit of coughing.
'There is my box,' I said, turning and looking towards it; and, at that moment seeing a porter come out of a small room we had just passed, called to him. I turned back to them:
'Shall I tell him to ... How? Are there cabs ... or ...'
'Well,' said Rayne, with the light of laughter in her eyes, 'there's the pony carriage outside, but ... I'm afraid your box will be—rather too much for it!'
I laughed.
'Eh?' said Mr. Cholmeley, 'What? Eh? The box, my dear? ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — PartII: Chapter I. (1894)

“ Cholmeley's address and had neither his letter nor Colonel James's to refer to. It didn't trouble me. I stood still, thinking about things in a vague way. Then took to looking at the station and a tall grass bank opposite. There seemed no one in the station now. A hen fluttered out of some furze a little farther on into the line. Some ducks came paddling their bills along in a broad rut on the other side of it. I could hear a telegraph clock tick-tick-tick-ticking. ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — PartII: Chapter I. (1894)

“ I think I should like to die in Italy, where the sun shines always, and there is no cold wind and rain, and the fields are full of flowers.'
'But the wind does blow,' she said, 'horribly sometimes. The sirocco in the autumn is terrible, and so are the spring winds in Florence—so piercing and cold. ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — PartII: Chapter I. (1894)

“ Cholmeley sank down sighing in an armchair that Rayne turned a little to the window.
'Ah-h,' he said, 'I'm very soon tired out now!'
Then, in a little, recovering himself, and looking up at me standing by the window to his left:
'But perhaps Mr. Leicester is hungry' (turning his look up to Rayne above the right arm of the armchair) . ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — PartII: Chapter I. (1894)

“ There was a play of foam, as she spoke, at the foot of the brown cliff behind which was the sun now almost, or altogether, set. She rose: crossed the plateau: jumped down on to the shingle, and started off at a run. I was up and after her in a moment. She ran well, for a girl. But the shingle, giving with each footfall, was tiring to the limbs, and then there were her petticoats. She began to flag a little. We were still quite a hundred yards from the point.
'Will you take my hand?' I said, passing her, 'let me help you. ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — PartII: Chapter I. (1894)

“ Cholmeley, 'the wonder is that we remember anything.'
And with that we went out of the station to a small pony-carriage and a small brown fat pony, waiting by the kerb. Rayne drew back. Mr. Cholmeley got in, and made a motion to sit down in the front seat. I ran round to the other side to stop him, and succeeded. In a moment Rayne had jumped in: taken the reins: touched up the pony, and we were off at a smart trot. ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — PartII: Chapter I. (1894)

“ So we reached the garden wall, and she went up the ladder, and then I: along the path: round the bushes and out on to the lawn. There we saw Mr. Cholmeley looking through a pair of lorgnettes along the other shore. ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — PartII: Chapter I. (1894)

“ Armstrong lived in London. As we were getting up in the early morning he found out that I too had to go to London, and asked me to have breakfast with him at Miller's, where they give you a decent tuck-in for 1/6, and besides Knight's is so dirty, and he hadn't paid his tick there yet for last term. ”

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