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On that same afternoon Conway Dalrymple rolled up his sketch of Jael and Sisera, put it into his pocket, dressed himself with some considerable care, putting on a velvet coat which he was in the habit of wearing out of doors when he did not intend to wander beyond Kensington Gardens and the neighbourhood and which was supposed to become him well, yellow gloves, and a certain Spanish hat of which he was fond, and slowly sauntered across to the house of his friend Mrs Dobbs Broughton.
During this period the people, by their representatives in the Legislature, began that opposition to the Royal authority, which was in after years to signalize North Carolina as one of the leading Colonies in the Revolutionary struggle. The newly-appointed Royal Governor, Arthur Dobbs, arrived at Newbern in the autumn of 1754.
And the difficulty is this Dobbs. He's as drunk as a marine. How can we trust him? We ain't insured worse luck!" "Suppose you took him aloft and got him to point out the channel?" suggested Carthew. "If he tallied at all with the chart, and didn't fall out of the rigging, perhaps we might risk it." "Well, all's risk here," returned the captain. "Take the wheel yourself, and stand by.
I was not responsible for the results flowing from them." "I don't know what you mean," growled Dobbs. "You string a lot of big words together, and I think you're laughing at me again." "Impossible, Mr. Dobbs. I could not be so impolite. My risibilities may be agitated to a certain extent, but laugh in the face of a stranger, never! Now will you kindly let us pass?
In fact, Poundstone, Dobbs, Andrews, and Mullin are known as the Solid Four. Yates and Thatcher, the remaining members of the city council, are the result of the reform ticket last fall, but since they are in the minority, they are helpless." "That makes it bad." "Not at all. The Cardigans are not known to be connected with the N. C. O. Send your bright friend Ogilvy after that franchise.
Many years ago there was published at Canterbury a periodical work called The Kentish Register. In the No. for September, 1793, there is a ludicrous letter, signed "Agricola," addressed to Sir John Sinclair, then President of the Royal Agricultural Society; and in that letter there is frequent mention made of "Doctor Dobbs, of Doncaster, and his horse Nobbs."
"You just the same as told 'em I was a liar when I said the French were coming." The man was full of unreasoning anger, and he handled the butt end of a heavy whip. Yet Robert felt quite cool. His pistol was in his belt, and Tayoga was at his elbow. "You are mistaken, my good Mr. Dobbs," he said gaily. "I would never tell a man he was a liar, particularly one to whom I had not been introduced.
As a matter of fact I was secretly pleased to hear of this addition to our little household. I knew that as soon as I was graduated I would be sent to some army post in the West, and that the occasional visit I was now able to pay to Dobbs Ferry would be discontinued. I hated to think that in his old age my grandfather would be quite alone.
"Just like Dobbs," he said, "get us into a scrape, and then cut." "Hush don't say anything," said Joel, rushing frantically back, "I think he's dead oh, Bingley, I'm sorry I hurt you too." He was rapidly pouring water into the basin, and dashing it into Dobbs' unconscious face. "I must go for the doctor," he groaned. "Bingley, he can't be dead do say he isn't!" in a flood of remorse.
How was he to get through his present difficulty? "No," said he, "Broughton did not come. It was Mr Musselboro whose steps you heard below." "What is he here for? What is he doing here? Where is Dobbs? Conway, there is something the matter. Has he gone off?" "Yes; he has gone off." "The coward!" "No; he was not a coward; not in that way."
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