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Nay, his information far outstripped Bedlow's, for he swore that to his knowledge Coleman had given four ruffians eighty guineas to stab the king, and Sir George Wakeham had undertaken to poison his majesty for ten thousand pounds.
The intended address was therefore abandoned for the present; but the bill for disabling catholics from sitting in either House of Parliament, having a clause which excepted the Duke of York from that indignity, passed on the 30th of November. Reward for the discovery of murderers. Bedlow's character and evidence. His strange story. Development of the "horrid plot."
And when the parson and his wife got home from Miss Bedlow's funeral, they found the three children there, perfectly absorbed in the labor of sailing boats of cabbage leaves, and guiding their uncertain craft in and out the shimmering pools and down through the tiny rapids. And they watched them unobserved.
"It is, too," declared Peletiah; "it's Miss Bedlow's funeral, and my Pa is going to bury her." "It ain't, either; an' that's a baker's cart," said Rachel, pointing to the departing hearse with scorn. "Oh, oh, what a story!" exclaimed Ezekiel, who was just on the point of reproving his brother for contradicting, and he pointed his brown finger at her.
Well, this funeral was just too splendid for anythin'. In the first place there was " "Oh, it's coming," cried Ezekiel, pricking up his ears. "Miss Bedlow's funeral's coming." Rachel gave a jump that carried her off from the door-stone and quite a piece down the box-bordered path. She was hanging over the gate when the boys came up. "Where?" she said. "I don't see any."
"Oh, a string of carriages as long an' the corpse is sometimes in a white box, and heaps of flowers. I like 'em next to the circus." "There, there, Rachel, eat your dinner, child," broke in Mrs. Henderson quickly. "And, boys, don't talk any more. You must get through dinner, for I have to go to Miss Bedlow's by two o'clock," and she got out of her chair and began to clear the table.
I let her understand how much I was gratified; and thus our long, long voyage, and that, so far as degrees of longitude were concerned, nearly embraced the circuit of the earth, may be said to have terminated with the kindest feelings. The ship was off Bedlow's, and the pilot had begun to shorten sail, when a schooner crossed our fore-foot, beating down.
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