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Ethelbert, already well disposed towards the Christian faith, assigned him a habitation in the Isle of Thanet, and soon after admitted him to a conference. Polychron. lib. 5. Chron. I. cap. 2 Hunting. lib. 3. Brompton, p. 729 Parker Antiq. Brit. Chron. H. Hunting. lib. 3.

It was evening when his carriage thundered up to the little door in Brompton, whither the affectionate fellow drove first, and before hieing to the apartments secured for him by Mr. Dobbin at the Slaughters'.

"Sit down sh!" said Lord Brompton, and he put his finger to his lips and nodded toward a low door which was visible a few feet beyond. "It is there." "Oh, this is delightful. Is it a real, genuine, ancestral ghost?" "In that chamber the Lady Marian Ripon, an ancestress of mine, is said to have died of a broken heart.

He had lost trace of him utterly since that day when he had handed him Terry's ultimatum at the Savoy. Since then Terry and he had had many meetings, he did not doubt. Braithwaite's influence clung to her like her shadow. But if he was so in love with Terry, the more reason why he should steer clear of Ann. To have called at Brompton Square would have been asking for a cloudburst.

George and the dragon!" cried Lord Brompton, "what would Dacre say could he hear the comparison? Jawkins's life would not be worth an hour's purchase. We regarded John Dacre at Oxford as the ideal of a chivalric nature." "You interest me greatly," said she. "But what has he been doing since you graduated?"

He always took Mine Ave., Brompton Ave., and Pinney's Ave. alternately, and we later on saved a number of lives by having a sentry at the entrance to these communication-trenches to give warning to use the other trench while this one was being shelled.

The chance of a train at some underground station seemed too doubtful to think about; in any case he had no more money to waste. On he plodded, heavily, angrily Cromwell Road, Brompton Road, at last Piccadilly, and so into familiar districts, though he had never walked here so late at night.

And then he said, 'Miles Merryweather, my dear! Excellent person! Heard he had taken the old house, but had no idea he was coming so soon. Eminent scientific man, manager of the new chemical works at Brompton, over yonder. Met him once, some years ago; glad to renew the acquaintance. Large family, I see, yes, yes; hum, ha!

He leaned over toward her and tried to take one of her hands; she edged it away from him, and turned toward him with flashing eyes and thin, compressed lips. "It is not possible that I shall ever care for you, Lord Brompton, in the way in which you pretend to care for me." "Pretend to care for you!" he said, angrily. "What do you mean by that? Why should I come to you with pretences?

The ship Brompton, in endeavouring to work out of the bay, by some accident got on shore, and finally became a complete wreck. This fine vessel, with a valuable cargo on board, lay helpless on the beach, and the crew and passengers expected nothing less than plunder and destruction.