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"Regular written invitations, with five-cent stamps, my dear," she explained enthusiastically. "Just like this: 'Mrs. Robert Browne requests the pleasure of Miss So-and-so's company at dinner on the 17th of Whatever-it-is. Please reply by return steamer. Won't it be fun? Bobby, please send down to the bank for the stamps. I'm going to make out a list."
With Selim in the lead, the little procession moved swiftly but cautiously through the black jungle, bent on reaching the gate if possible before the night lifted. Chase and Bobby Browne brought up the rear with the two reserve carriers in hand. Browne, weak and suffering from torture and exposure, struggled bravely along, determined not to retard their progress by a single movement of indecision.
I had contracted a great friendship with Sir Richard Browne, his majesty's Resident at the Court of France, his lady and family, and particularly set my affections on a daughter. June 10. We concluded about my marriage, and on Thursday 27, Dr.
Browne and I, however, rode over a snake, but our horses fortunately escaped being bitten; this animal had seized a mouse, which it let go on being disturbed, and crept into a hole; it was very pretty, being of a bright yellow colour with brown specks.
I got Saxe then senior partner in Browne, Saxe and Einstein on the 'phone, and said: "Just see and tell me, will you, what is the 'bill defining the power of sundry commissions' the bill the governor signed yesterday?" "Certainly, Mr. Blacklock," came the answer.
I left the camp on the 14th of the month, in the anxious hope that I should succeed in finding some place of more permanent safety than the one we then occupied, for we could almost see the water decrease, so powerful was the evaporation that was going on. I was accompanied by Mr. Browne and Mr. Poole, with Flood, Joseph, and Mack; but Mr.
The young lord himself conducted his friend, General Browne, to the chamber destined for him, which answered the description he had given of it, being comfortable, but old-fashioned, The bed was of the massive form used in the end of the seventeenth century, and the curtains of faded silk, heavily trimmed with tarnished gold.
He begged the good doctor to forgive him, and said he would be willing to do anything in order to remain at Brill. "My father will never forgive me if I am dismissed," he said in a broken voice. "But supposing I had dismissed the Rovers and Stanley Browne?" asked the doctor severely. "Yes, yes, I know, sir!" wailed Flockley. "But, oh, sir, don't send me away!
Browne to make a circuit to the N.E. for the same purpose, as we had observed many birds fly past us in that direction; and I sent Flood to the westward, but both returned unsuccessful. Nevertheless, although we could not find any water, the country improved. The soil was still clay and sand, but we crossed some very fine flats, and only wanted water to enjoy comparative luxury.
His precise and immediate object was Darfur, some of the natives of which resided in Egypt: from their manners and account of their country, Mr. Browne concluded the inhabitants were not so hostile to Christians and Europeans as Mahometans are in general. He therefore resolved to go thither; as from it he could either proceed into Abyssinia by Kordofan, or traverse Africa from east to west.
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