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"As the sailor-man who watched you as you lay a-groaning in your sleep outside the Conisby Arms, I guessed you one o' the Conisby breed by your ring, and as one born and bred here in Kent I mind well the adage, 'To hate like a Brandon and revenge like a Conisby, and by God, my lord, you are a true Conisby, it seemeth! Vengeance!" says he, his thin features grown sharp and austere, "Ah!
The next day we reached Brandon, and on the 9th Morton, where we perceived signs of an infantry concentration, but the enemy did not give us battle, and retreated before us. The rebel cavalry were all around us, so we kept our columns compact and offered few or no chances for their dashes. As far as Morton we had occupied two roads, but there we were forced into one.
I repeat, that nothing that has mind is, of necessity, low; and nothing is vulgar but meanness. At six years of age my health had become firmly established, but this establishment caused dismay in that of Joe Brandon.
The first appearance of Miss Brandon in Paris society. You ought to know that also. "One evening, about four years ago, the president of the Mutual Discount Society came into the cashier's room to tell him, that, on the following day, the board of directors would examine his books.
Evelyn raged again. "They can't say any worse than my husband believes of me. No I am going I want to put distance between us; I just came in to say good-bye and to tell you how it happened. I wanted you and Mr. Corbett to know the truth, for you have been kind friends to me, and I'll never, never forget you." "I'd be afraid you'd never get to Brandon tonight, honey." Mrs.
To choose one of the wildest, most untamed tribes for his pupils, was in perfect keeping with his convictions and his character for courage. Hence he selected the present hunting-grounds of the Sioux, in upper Minnesota. Shortly before he started he was married to Cora Brandon, whose devotion to her great Master and to her husband would have carried her through any earthly tribulations.
While with a curled yet often with a quivering lip the austere and sarcastic Brandon slowly compelled himself to the task of proceeding through these monuments of former folly and youthful emotion, the further elucidation of those events, now rapidly urging on a fatal and dread catastrophe, spreads before us a narrative occurring many years prior to the time at which we are at present arrived.
"What will you say when I tell you that she is the daughter of poor Ralph Brandon, of Brandon Hall, your father's friend, whose wretched fate has made us all so miserable. You know nothing of this, of course; but where was Thornton? Why did not he do something to prevent this horror, this unutterable calamity? Good God! what suffering there is in this world! "Now, Courtenay, I come to the point.
She fixed her eyes, trembling with fear and hope, upon Daniel, and added, in a voice of supplication and touching humility, "The world has been more cruel than justice itself but you, sir, will you be harder than the magistrate?" Alas! Daniel was sorely embarrassed what to answer. He felt as if all his senses were in an uproar and in utter confusion. "Sir!" begged Miss Brandon again.
"That will do," said his employer. "Row on," thought Pringle. "I hope he isn't going to catch it again." Then as the door closed Mr Brandon, whose countenance was flushed and his eyes angry-looking, turned upon his son. "Do you think I am blind, sir?" he said sharply. "No, father: I don't know what you mean." "Then I'll tell you, sir.
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