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I love a dumb brute too well to let it suffer, but in this case I'd give two hundred dollars more if I could make them live and have Barron know it." They left the room, and Miss Laura sat turning the sheet of paper over and over, with a kind of horror in her face. It was a very dirty piece of paper, but by-and-by she made a discovery. She took it in her hand and went out-doors.
In the month of June, 1807, the British frigate Leopard, while cruising off the coast of Virginia, poured several broadsides into the American frigate Chesapeake, commanded by Captain James Barron. England, as will be remembered, insisted on the "right of search," and the British Captain Humphreys claimed that the American had several English deserters on board.
Hare Court trees come in at the window, so that it's like living in a garden." Barron Field was entered on the books of the Inner Temple in 1809 and was called to the Bar in 1814. Sally W r. Lamb's Key gives "Sally Winter;" but as to who she was we have no knowledge. J.W. James White. See next essay. London Magazine, May, 1822, where it has a sub-title, "A May-Day Effusion."
Decatur said he had never been his enemy, that he freely forgave him his death, but he could not forgive those who had stimulated him to seek his life. Barron then said: 'Would to God you had said that much yesterday." Thus they parted in peace. Decatur knew he was to die, and his only regret was that he had not died in the service of his country.
Richard had told her, indeed, and she saw from the Post, that at the inquest Barron had apparently accounted for the conversation. "She gave me a curious history of her life in the States. I was interested by her strange personality and touched by her physical condition." Richard was convinced that there was no reasonable cause for alarm.
We have, for instance, a letter by him, Craig, and Spottiswood, to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, anent "a wicked and rebellious woman," one Anne Good, spouse to "John Barron, a minister of Christ Jesus his evangel," who, "after great rebellion shown unto him, and divers admonitions given, as well by himself as by others in his name, that she should in no wise depart from this realm, nor from his house without his license, hath not the less stubbornly and rebelliously departed, separated herself from his society, left his house, and withdrawn herself from this realm."
Arran was openly sending messengers to France; "his councils are too patent." In these threatening circumstances Bothwell made Knox's friend, Barron, a rich burgess who "financed" the Earl, introduce him to our Reformer.
"Not one leetle mite, you don't!" assented her host, promptly and cordially. "I was beginning to think mebbe I did!" persisted the injured lady. "Everybody knows," protested the woodsman, "as how what you don't know, Mrs. Gammit, ain't hardly wuth knowin'." "O' course, that's puttin' it a leetle too strong, Mr. Barron," she answered, much mollified.
"Come in, will 'e, an' ait your food, bwoy. Theer ed'n no call to kick out they boots agin' the pig's 'ouse because I be gwaine to buy new wans for 'e presently." Fired by a word which she had heard from John Barron, that flowers became the house as well as the garden, Joan plucked an early sprig of pink ribe and the first buds of wall-flower before returning to the kitchen.
Why, my dear sir, was there ever a more ridiculous, a more incredible tale!" Flaxman sprang to his feet, and with his hands in his pockets, turned upon his visitor, impatient contempt in every feature. "Wait a moment before you judge," said Barron dryly.
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