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Craig were beginning to breathe more freely, when the noise as of some one springing suddenly upon another was heard, followed by a struggle and a choking cry. It continued so long that Mr. Craig ran out into the hall and knocked at the door of General Abercrombie's room. As he did so the noise of struggling ceased, and all grew still.
Abercrombie's feelings were overcast with shadows when he entered the store. There was a pressure, in consequence, upon his bosom, and a state of irritability which he essayed, though feebly and ineffectually, to overcome. "Where is Edward?" he inquired, soon after his arrival. Edward was a lad, the son of a poor widow, who had recently been employed in Mr. Abercrombie's store.
Abercrombie's interesting account of spectral illusions, he tells us of a servant-girl who believed she saw, at the foot of her bed, the apparition of Curran, in a sailor's jacket and an immense pair of whiskers. No doubt the spectre was an illusion, and Dr.
Sir Henry Holland, chapters on "Mental Physiology," p. 220. The whole of the chapter on Instincts and Habits in this work should be read in connection with the passage just quoted. The work itself, at once cautious and suggestive, is not one of the least obligations which philosophy and religion alike owe to the lucubrations of English medical men. Abercrombie's Intellectual Powers, p. 26.
He was turning to go out, when a sound as of a falling chair came from General Abercrombie's room, and caused him to stop and turn back, This was followed by the quick tread of heavy feet going up and down the chamber floor, and continuing without intermission for as much as five minutes. It stopped as suddenly as it had begun, and all was silent again.
Bailey's The Novels of George Meredith: A Study. Trevelyan's The Poetry and Philosophy of George Meredith. Beach's The Comic Spirit in George Meredith. Lionel Johnson's The Art of Thomas Hardy. Macdonell's Thomas Hardy. Abercrombie's Thomas Hardy: A Critical Study. Saxelby's Thomas Hardy Dictionary. Benson's Walter Pater. Paul's Matthew Arnold. Saintsbury's Matthew Arnold.
It was, therefore, determined to march to a point on the river, ten miles above Seringapatam, where it was hoped that a better ford could be found; and where a junction might be effected with General Abercrombie's Bombay army, which was moving up from the Malabar coast, and was but thirty or forty miles distant. To effect this movement, it was necessary to pass within sight of the capital.
On the Convention being signed he purchased a majority in one of the regiments of German Hussars in our service. He was then sent on a mission to Vienna, and having fulfilled this, went down through Italy to Malta, where he expected to find his regiment, which formed part of General Abercrombie's command. He joined it before it landed in Egypt, and served through the campaign there.
I may say that one reason for my doing this at the present moment is that as you will be on Sir Ralph Abercrombie's staff, I think that, as the navy is to be represented, it should be represented by an officer with at least the rank of lieutenant, so as to give him a proper status.
But even with the thought came the knowledge that she would only be shelving the difficulty for a little; he would wait, he would search till he found her. She did not think he would be very easy to put off. With Miss Abercrombie's letter open on her lap, she sat and watched the people passing by her.
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