Villa Kennan, with a pang of disappointment at such rebuff, forwent her overtures for the moment, and listened to what tale Jacob Henderson could tell of his dog.
Talk!" Villa pleaded with Michael, catching both sides of his head and jaws in her hands and swaying him back and forth.
My investigations in the villa have shown me several fine pictures and statues; furniture tastefully selected, and admirably made; and a conservatory of the rarest flowers, the match of which it would not be easy to find in all London.
The villa and the lady are such familiar objects in London life, that I ought to apologise for introducing them to notice.
"You mean," Villa Kennan challenged, "that these head-hunting cannibals ashore here keep records of pedigrees and maintain kennels; for surely this absurd adventurer of a dog is as proper an Irish terrier as the Ariel is an Oregon-pine-planked schooner."
Villa Kennan laughed too; and Jerry knew that these were a pair of happy gods, and himself laughed with them.
Wragge have only to join me here, to be established five doors away from him in this elegant
villa. I have got the whole house for three guineas a week, with the option of remaining through the autumn at the same price.
About half a mile beyond the last of the old cottages, modern England met you again under the form of a row of little
villas, set up by an adventurous London builder who had bought the land a bargain.
There was thus but one
villa unoccupied, and it was no wonder that the two maiden ladies watched with a keen interest, which deepened into a dire apprehension, the curious incidents which heralded the coming of the new tenants.
The
villa was a roomy white house, which, as is the case with most continental houses, looked to an English eye frail, ramshackle, and absurdly frivolous, more like a pagoda in a tea-garden than a place where one slept.
Then round the corner of the lane, from between the
villas that guarded it at its confluence with the high road, came a little cart drawn by a sweating black pony and driven by a sallow youth in a bowler hat, grey with dust.
He walked alone to the
villa where he had once lived with the woman whom he had so cruelly wronged.
-- The solitary hovel which bears the imposing name of
Villa Vicencio, has been mentioned by every traveller who has crossed the Andes.
In a quarter of an hour the news that a gentleman who was a temporary visitor to the town had been stabbed in his bed, spread through every street and
villa of the popular watering-place.
The scene suggested a Swiss Alp rather than the shrine and centre of a leisured world, and was marred only by two ugly little villas-- the
villas that had competed with Cecil's engagement, having been acquired by Sir Harry Otway the very afternoon that Lucy had been acquired by Cecil.
