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About that time the seals were broken, and it was found that Edward Maria Wingfield, who was afterwards elected president for one year, Bartholomew Gosnold, Christopher Newport, John Smith, John Ratcliffe, John Martin, and George Kendall were councillors.
The sealed box was now opened, and it was found that Bartholomew Gosnold, John Smith, Edward Maria Wingfield, Christopher Newport, John Ratcliffe, John Martin, and George Kendall were named as members of the Provincial Council.
The nearer the great thing came to them the more difficult was it to ignore the vastness of the interests involved, and the greater the responsibility of those who stood motionless between Christopher and it. Yet Mr.
It was the father who wrote the letters, signing thereto feigned names, and charging thee with crimes as feigned. "I understand," said the Knight, "that my successor has departed." "He has gone. Sister Celestina, in her elevation, forgets her temporary humiliation, and Sir Christopher Gardiner " "Is the victim of a woman's suspicions and of a monk's policy.
Father Christopher and Kuzmitchov held their hats and looked intently towards the hills. . . . How pleasant a shower of rain would have been! One effort, one struggle more, and it seemed the steppe would have got the upper hand.
Of course if I hadn't I might feel differently about it. I can keep her in comfort, Nevil." Nevil got up deliberately and altered the position of a bronze on the high mantelshelf. "It's not Patricia I'm thinking about," he said in his slow way, "but hang it all, you belong to us, Christopher. We must think of you! Have you counted the risks?" "I probably understand them better than anyone."
The Venetian monopoly of this traffic had long been gone; had its recovery been possible, it would now have been useless to the declining prosperity of the Republic. It remained for Christopher Columbus, born of that Genoese nation which had hated the Venetians so long and so bitterly, to make the discovery of America, and thus to give the death-blow to the supremacy of Venice.
He watched Anne closely, and once when they climbed a hill together and she gave out, he carried her to the top. He managed to get his ear against her heart, and what he heard drained the blood from his face. As for Anne, she thought how strong he was and how fair his hair was with the sun upon it, for he had tucked his cap in his pocket. That night Christopher again spoke to Ridgeley.
"Give me three hundred stout and well-armed fellows, trusting in the Lord, and careful to keep their powder dry and bullets ready, and I will so take the conceit out of their red-skins, from the Kennebec to the mouth of the Connecticut, that they will never tell this story again," said Endicott. "Ask him," proceeded Winthrop, "if this Sir Christopher Gardiner is his friend."
Blake folded her hands and settled herself for a nap upon her cushions, while the yellow cat purred blissfully on her knees. Beyond the adjoining bedroom, through which Christopher passed, a rude plank platform led to a long, unceiled room which served as kitchen and dining-room in one.
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