Elmsdale

First ringing for breakfast, he bathed and shaved and arrayed himself carefully in glad habiliments of quiet taste and cut, in which he bore slight resemblance to the rough-and-ready Britt of Elmsdale.

The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On Eugene Manlove Rhodes 1901

Elmsdale never learned these particulars, however.

The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On Eugene Manlove Rhodes 1901

He endured agonies in trying to call himself Elmsdale, and rarely succeeded in styling his wife anything except Mrs. HE.

The Uninhabited House Mrs. J. H. Riddell 1869

Mr.. Elmsdale was a beauty, and a martyr; Mr. Elmsdale a rough beast, who had no capacity of ever developing into a prince.

The Uninhabited House Mrs. J. H. Riddell 1869

The only son of a very small builder who managed to leave a few hundred pounds behind him for the benefit of Elmsdale, then clerk in a contractor's office, he had seen enough of the anxieties connected with his father's business to wash his hands of bricks and mortar.

The Uninhabited House Mrs. J. H. Riddell 1869

Elmsdale is of the same mind, let her write to me and say so.

The Uninhabited House Mrs. J. H. Riddell 1869

Be this as it may, one thing is certain -- by the time Elmsdale was thirty he had established a very nice little connection amongst needy men: whole streets were mortgaged to him; terraces, nominally the property of some well-to-do builder, were virtually his, since he only waited the well-to-do builder's inevitable bankruptcy to enter into possession.

The Uninhabited House Mrs. J. H. Riddell 1869

Elmsdale wishes to sell, and as no one else will buy, I offer what I consider a fair price for the place.

The Uninhabited House Mrs. J. H. Riddell 1869

Where, then, had Miss Elmsdale obtained her information? from whom had she learned that I was bent on solving the mystery of the

The Uninhabited House Mrs. J. H. Riddell 1869

And the Petro-Canada and Esso just off highway 102 at Exit 8 in Elmsdale are also out of fuel.

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