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Drake states that above it was a wooden chantry, of which there are now no traces. The name, Thomas Dalby, on the inscription on the tomb, is that of an archdeacon of Richmond, who is said to have erected the monument.
Dalby speaks, is not discountenanced, none of those whose misfortune it is to have slaves as attendants, will visit the city if they can possibly avoid it." However, the clause which was struck from the Ordinance of 1784 was not intended to abolish slavery where it already existed, but to prevent the extension of the system to new territory.
Now then," flirting over the leaves of the guide book, "let's see how the trains run. Dorset Darsham Dalby Devonshire. Good! Here you are. Um-m-m. Too late for that. Can't possibly catch that one, either. Ah, here's the one 1.56 that will do." Then he closed the book, almost ran to the door, and, leaning over the banister, shouted down the staircase, "Dollops Dollops, you snail, where are you?
'Not that I know of, Miss. 'Well, then, there's somebody in love with him, said Louie, maliciously; 'and some day, Mr. Dalby, if we get a chance, perhaps I'll tell you all about it. The charming confidential smile she threw him so bewildered the lad that he hardly knew where he was.
'There's nothing to show but a cheque. It's all right. Is there anything for supper? 'There's some bread and cheese and cold apple-pie in there, said Louie, annoyed with him already; then, turning her head over her shoulder, 'Mr. Dalby, I'll trouble you to get them out. With awkward alacrity John flew to do her bidding.
But the words stuck in his throat, and he coughed over them. 'All right, said David; 'come for a walk Sunday afternoon? So a pretty constant companionship sprang up between them. John Dalby came of a decent stock, and was still, as it were, under the painful and stupefying surprise of those bereavements which had left him an orphan.
There was about it a sensuousness, a deliberate quest of luxury and gaiety, which a raw son of poverty could feel though he could not put it into words. No Manchester girl he had ever seen would have cared to spend her money in just this way. 'Now that's real nice, Mr. Dalby, and I'm just obliged to you, said Louie, with patronising emphasis, as she looked round upon his labours.
Then she cried out, "We can't even bury her?" "We should have a memorial service, right here at home where all her friends are," said Mel. George Dalby nodded in his grief. "That was just like Alice," he said. "Always wanting to do something for somebody else " And it was true, Mel thought.
In a desert island he would, like his Robinson Crusoe, have spent time, not in lamentation, but in steady work to get away. TO DALBY THOMAS, ESQ., One of the Commission's for Managing His majesty's Duties on Glass, &c
In time of battle soldiers sometimes have their tympanums ruptured by the concussion caused by the firing of cannon. Dalby mentions an instance of an officer who was discharged for deafness acquired in this manner during the Crimean War. He was standing beside a mortar which, unexpectedly to him, was fired, causing rupture of the tympanic membrane, followed by hemorrhage from the ear.
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