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He said a little more on the same subject, and then after a few moments' silence he added: "I wonder if the Clermont business keeps your hands full, Mr. Vane?" "It doesn't. It's a fact I'm beginning to regret." Drayton appeared to consider. "Well," he said, "people seem to regard you as a rising man with snap in him, and there's a matter I might, perhaps, bring before you. Let me explain.
I've given up the stage. Tom" she explained shyly "didn't like it. Now I'm with some people at a ranch near the Fraser, on the Westminster road. There are two or three children, and I'm very fond of them." "She won't be there long," Drayton interposed. "I've wanted to meet you for some time, Mr. Vane. They told me at the office that you were away." Vane smiled comprehendingly.
A pinched and tired look was coming over the waxen face that had been so calm and placid, as though in utter weariness over this senseless delay. Drayton had been told of young Ray's almost astounding declaration, and officers of the law half expected him to make some adverse comment thereon, but he did not.
I was deceived, but the man who promised me the berth was very friendly, and I didn't suspect him." "It was not Barker, then?" "No, sir; it was a man I met at Market Drayton." "At Market Drayton?" said Clive. "That's odd. What was his name?" "His name was Diggle, and " "A stranger? I remember no one of that name," said Clive.
Captain Drayton, however, being alarmed lest he might be thrown to the deck, directed a seaman to carry a lashing aloft and secure him to the rigging, which the admiral, after a moment's remonstrance, permitted.
The prospector looked at him with relief and gratitude in his eyes. "You're white and I guess you'd be mighty hard to beat!" When they reached the rutted street, which was bordered on one side by great fir stumps, Drayton glanced at Vane with open admiration. "I'm glad I brought you across. You have a way of getting hold of people making them believe in you.
B. was the s. of Francis B., a Judge of the Common Pleas, and was b. at the family seat, Grace Dieu, Leicestershire. He was ed. at Oxford, but his f. dying in 1598, he left without taking his degree. He went to London and entered the Inner Temple in 1600, and soon became acquainted with Ben Jonson, Drayton, and other poets and dramatists.
Looking back in after years, writers who, like Drayton, had lived through the movement from its very birth, could speak of Sidney as of the author who did first reduce Our tongue from Lyly's writing then in use, and could praise his style as a model of pure English. In spite of the generous, if misguided, efforts of occasional critics, posterity has not seen fit to endorse this view.
Although vervain, therefore, as the "enchanters' plant," was gathered by witches to do mischief in their incantations, yet, as Aubrey says, it "hinders witches from their will," a circumstance to which Drayton further refers when he speaks of the vervain as "'gainst witchcraft much avayling."
Miss Drayton looked up quickly from her book. "Patrick Henry Patterson!" she said severely. "Shame on you! Stop teasing that child. Give her the doll this instant this instant, sir!" Anne hugged her regained pet and walked away, carefully avoiding Pat's mischievous eyes.
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