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Full of amazed incredulity, for they had believed him to be among the prisoners taken by the enemy, his wife, Nurse Johnson and the girls ran to greet him. "And Charley, father?" cried Mrs. Ashley. "Where is Charley?" "With Hannah's boy, in the hands of the British," he answered. "Now, now, mother! don't give way. Prisoners can be exchanged, so he is not lost to us. Others did not fare so well."
"Or some one should succeed in finding Halloo, what's that?" A shout had risen from the hall beyond. She gasped, and we both plunged forward. Mr. Ashley, still in his overcoat, stood at the other end of the hall, and facing him were ranged the whole line of young people whom I had left scattered about in the various parlours.
As soon as silence was restored, Mr Porter wished to ask the captain of the eleven whether the team to play against Rockshire was yet settled. Mr Bloomfield. Not quite. Nine names are fixed Game, Tipper, Ashley, Wibberly, and myself from Parrett's house, and Fairbairn, Porter, Coates, and Crossfield from the schoolhouse. That's what everybody wants to know!
The night was particularly black, with low-hanging clouds which seemed to hold a threat of rain, and the wind sighed dolefully through the scrub pines. Against this dim murkiness the figure of the woman in white stood out ghostily. "Poor Minnie Webb!" mused Colonel Ashley, as he hurried on after her. "She must be desperate now after what she heard. I wonder "
"La! Mr. Ashley." "I mean, Miss Sallianna, the education, not of my mind that is finished and perfect: Oh, no! not that! The education of my heart!" Ralph was getting on at headlong speed. "Do you consent?" he said. "La really indeed " "Why not, oh, beautiful lady " "How can I ever so inexperienced so innocent a person as myself can scarcely " And Miss Sallianna fell into a flutter.
Ralph Ashley, with a languishing glance, and clasping his hands romantically as he spoke; "live for one, whose heart is wrapped in thee!" Miss Fanny's sense of the ludicrous was strong, and this pathetic appeal caused her to burst into laughter. "More ridiculous than ever, as I live!" she cried, "though I thought that was impossible." "Did you?" "Yes." Mr.
Colonel Ashley in his pleasant room at The Haven more pleasant it would have been except for the dark chamber with its silent occupant was putting his fishing rod together. There came a knock on the door, and Shag entered. "Oh!" he exclaimed at the sight of the familiar equipment. "Is we is yo' done on dish yeah case, Colonel?" "No, Shag. I haven't even begun yet." "But " "Yes, I know.
Ashworth, a large manufacturer, admits in a letter to Lord Ashley, that, towards the fortieth year, the spinners can no longer prepare the required quantity of yarn, and are therefore "sometimes" discharged; he calls operatives forty years of age "old people!"
Charles II. by the Grace of God, &c. Whereas by Our Letters Patents, bearing Date the Four and Twentieth Day of March, in the Fifteenth Year of Our Reign, We were Graciously Pleas'd to Grant unto Our right Trusty, and right Well-beloved Cousin and Counsellor Edward Earl of Clarendon, our High Chancellor of England, Our right Trusty, and right entirely Beloved Cousin and Counsellor, George Duke of Albemarle, Master of our Horse, Our right Trusty and Well Beloved William, now Earl of Craven, our right Trusty and well-beloved Counsellor, John Lord Berkeley, our right Trusty, and well-beloved Counsellor, Anthony Lord Ashley, Chancellor of our Exchequer, our right Trusty and Well-beloved Counsellor Sir George Carterett Knight and Baronet, Vice-Chamberlain of our Houshold, Our right Trusty and well-beloved, Sir John Colleton Knight and Baronet, and Sir William Berkeley Knight, all that Province, Territory, or Tract of Ground, called Carolina, situate, lying and being within our Dominions of America, Extending from the North End of the Island, called Luke Island, which lyeth in the Southern Virginia Seas, and within six and thirty Degrees of the Northern Latitude; and to the West, as far as the South Seas; and so respectively as far as the River of Mathias, which bordereth upon the Coast of Florida, and within One and Thirty Degrees of the Northern Latitude, and so West in a direct Line, as far as the South Seas aforesaid.
Such a course however gave but a temporary respite; and Buckingham and Ashley pressed on Charles the advisability of a dissolution. The House of Commons, they held, chosen as it had been eight years before in a moment of reaction, no longer really represented public opinion, and a new House would contain a larger proportion of members inclined to a policy of Protestant union.
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