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Ellen Chauncey overwhelmed her with joyful caresses, and could scarcely let her out of her arms by night or by day. She was more than ever Mr. Marshman's pet; but, indeed, she was well petted by the family. It was a very happy visit. Even Sunday left nothing to wish for. To her great joy, not only Mrs. Chauncey and her daughter and Miss Sophia went with her again.
They even leave the date to be gathered, though both agree in limiting its duration to six months or thereabouts. The recent discovery, among the Chauncey papers, by Mr. W. G. Thorpe, of the original warrant under which Bunyan was at this time sent to gaol, supplies the missing information.
In his own words, in a letter describing this passage of his life: "On the evening of May 23d, I received information, about sunset, that Commodore Chauncey would in a day or two arrive at Niagara, when an attack would be made on Fort George. He had previously promised me the command of the seamen and marines that might land from the fleet. Without hesitation I determined to join him.
Slowly he realized that he was listening to the Speaker's deep voice. "'The Committee on Corporations, to whom was referred House Bill Number 109, entitled, 'An Act to extend the Truro Railroad to Harwich, having considered the same, report the same with the following resolution: Resolved, that the bill ought to pass. Chauncey Weed, for the Committee." The Truro Franchise!
Afterward, he strolled into the billiard-room, where Billy Price and Chauncey Venable were having an exciting bout; and from there to the smoking-room, where the stout little Major had gotten a group of young bloods about him to play "Klondike."
Meantime, however, four of the schooners were kept cruising off Kingston, to prevent intercourse between it and the other ports. On December 1 Chauncey wrote that it was no longer safe to navigate the lake, and that he would soon lay up the vessels.
"We have but just come, Ellie," said her sister. "I should not have been long in finding you out. My child, how thin you have got." "Oh, I'll grow fat again now," said Ellen. "How is Miss Fortune?" "Oh, she is up again and well." "Have you any reason to expect your father home, Ellen?" said Mrs. Chauncey. "Yes, Ma'am; aunt Fortune says perhaps he will be here in a week."
The Cossack conquest of the western portion of the region now called Siberia opened that vast territory to Muscovite occupation, and gradually it has become known to the world as part of the Russian empire. Translated by Chauncey C. Starkweather. Nothing certain is known of the origin of the Cossack tribes, and no final agreement has been reached as to the derivation of their name.
Bogardus rose and shook out her skirts. "Will Chauncey bring my horse when it stops raining? By the way, did you get the furniture down that was in that room, Cerissa? the old secretary? I am going to have it put in order for Mr. Paul's room. Old furniture is the fashion now, you know." Cerissa caught her breath nervously. "Mrs. Bogardus I couldn't do a thing about it!
The committee includes Messrs. Laurence B. Benet, W.S. Dalliba, Charles Carroll, Frederick Coudert, James Deering, Chauncey M. Depew, E.H. Gary, H. Herman Harjes, William Jay, F.B. Kellog, Percy Peixotto, and Henry S. Priest. The chairman is Judge E.H. Gary. Mr. Herrick asked me to convey a private message to one of his friends, but as the telephone service was interrupted, Mr.
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