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To this the Major assented, and fired immediately, the shot passing harmlessly by the Colonel, who then fired in his turn, hitting Major Brooks in the right eye. The Major instantly fell and died. Colonel Bolton was hurried off and remained in concealment for a short time. It was said that the firing of the pistols was heard in Major Brooks' house at the corner of Daulby-street.
There were hedges and brooks to be negotiated, and, worst of all, ploughed fields. The first ploughed field usually thinned the ranks of the competitors considerably. The distance was about ten miles. The race started at three o'clock. Jim and Welch, Merevale's first string, set the pace from the beginning, and gradually drew away from the rest.
Maturin appeared, with an envelope in her hand. "I've got a letter from Brooks Insall, Janet," she said, with a well-disguised effort to speak naturally. "It's not the first one he's sent me, but I haven't mentioned the others. He's in Silliston and I wrote him about the daughter." "Yes," said Janet. "Well he wants to come up here, to see you, before we go away.
"I tell you what it is, Brooks," he said, more cheerfully. "We mustn't be too previous in judging the fellow. Let's write him civilly, and if nothing comes of it in a week or two, we will run up to London, you and me, eh? and just haul him over the coals." "You are right, Mr. Bullsom," Brooks said. "There is nothing we can do for the present."
At last he became so unsteady that twice his feet slipped along the wall, and he had to return to his attitude of standing on his head. "Better let up on the beast, Paulson," murmured Midshipman Brooks. "Yes," agreed Paulson. "The warning bell will go in a minute more. Mister, on your feet!" Dave promptly returned to normal attitude, standing respectfully at attention.
First soil, then plant and animal life, are thus in the last resort wholly dependent for their existence on the amount of rainfall. There can be no rivers, brooks or streams to wash down beds of alluvial deposit from the mountains to the valleys. Practically speaking, there is no water action; the work is all done by sun and wind.
John Graham Brooks, for instance, in "American Syndicalism The I. W. W." has this to say: "Of the same nature as a characteristic is the +youth+ of the membership. The groups I saw in the West bore this stamp so unmistakably as to suggest bodies of students at the end of a rather jolly picnic. The word 'bum' usually applied to them in that region does not fit them.
The story of the progress of New England concert-giving has been most fully given by Henry M. Brooks, esq., in his delightful book, "Olden Time Music." Lectures on pneumatics, electricity, and philosophy were given in Boston as early as 1740, and soon acquired a popularity which they have retained to the present day.
Certain of her friends had become tentative enemies. Kitty Brooks and the Bray womenfolk, who were a numerous and influential tribe, not only turned silent faces when they met, but they made war on her in the peculiar fashion of women. A word here, a suggestive phrase there, a shrug of the shoulders. It all bore fruit. Other friends conveyed the avid gossip. Hazel smiled and ignored it.
"I'm sorry I haven't a table for you just at present," he was saying. "But perhaps you'll let me take your order," and he imitated the obsequious attitude of a waiter. "A little fresh caviar and a clear soup, and then a fish ?" The lady took down her lorgnette and raised an appealing face. "You're always joking, Brooks," she chided him, "even when you're doing things like this!
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