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A slow, sonorous voice was proclaiming aloud that victory had been adjudged to Stephen Kiesslinger, born in the burgh of Antwerp, son of a wharfinger in that town. When Nello recovered his consciousness he was lying on the stones without, and Patrasche was trying with every art he knew to call him back to life.
When you have rain and a gale, it must be fearfully dreary." "We have had some rough days, but the bay has a beauty of its own even in a storm, and we shall not be here in the winter." "De Burgh runs down to see you pretty often?" asked Mrs. Ormonde, after a short pause. The old regimental habit of calling men by their surnames still returned when she was off guard.
Give me my bag and note-book. I must go straight away to the 'Incubator Company's Office; I promised them a notice in my Salterton letter next week. There, go, child; I don't want you any more." "But I am in no hurry, Mrs. Needham. Lord de Burgh is no very particular friend of mine." "Well, well! That remains to be seen. Just smooth your hair, won't you?
The other, Burgh Walls, on the Bristol side of the combe, was destroyed to make room for the present villas. A British trackway, communicating with Cadbury Camp, is said to have here crossed the river by a ford. From the edge of the cliff delightful glimpses may be obtained of the bridge and gorge. Leighland, a hamlet 5 m. S.W. of Williton.
And he smoked meditatively for a minute or two. "Then you will not leave us to-morrow?" said Ormonde. "When does she go up to town?" asked De Burgh. "On Monday, I believe." "Then I'll run up the day after to-morrow. Old De Burgh has just come back from the Riviera. I'll go and do the dutiful, and tell him I have found a suitable partner for my joys and sorrows; it will score to my credit.
So feeling that he had nothing to do and only one thing to think about, he wandered further through the old burgh, past the lingering fragment of its once mighty cathedral, and down to the bridge which, with its one Gothic arch as old as the youth of Chaucer, spanned the channel, here deep and narrow, of the long-drawn Highland river.
De Burgh, therefore, had nothing for it but to walk after the man whom he at once decided was a dangerous rival, as indeed he would have considered any one in the rank of a gentleman. Mrs. Ormonde was quite charmed to see Errington. She had put him rather out of her mind.
"You know there is a French proverb " She stopped, not liking to repeat it as she suddenly remembered the application. "Yes, I do know the lying Gallic invention! Heureux au jeu, malheureux en amour. I don't believe it. If luck's with you, all goes well; but then Fortune is such a fickle jade!" "I trust you will always be fortunate, Mr. De Burgh," said Katherine, gently.
"I think I ought to begin with something quieter," said Katherine, looking at them uneasily. De Burgh laughed. "There is a nice stretch of level road before us nothing to interfere with you. Change places with me, if you please. Here, put the reins between your fingers so; now a turn of the wrist guides them. I'll hold your hand for a bit. You had better not let the whip touch them so.
The nation, never destined to acquire political union in the Renaissance, possessed at last an intellectual unity in its painters and its students, which justifies our speaking of the great men of the golden period as Italians and not as citizens of such or such a burgh.
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