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They are like hens that fly into the trees to roost. The father of "The Jukes" Mr. Dugdale styled "Max." He was born about 1720 of Dutch stock. Had he remained with his home folk in the town and been educated, and thrifty like the rest of the boys, he might have given the world a very different kind of family from "The Jukes." Max was a jolly good fellow and not very bad.
No one could see that look without feeling convinced that there were beautiful depths open only to Divinest vision, in the silent and abstracted nature of Marmaduke Dugdale. Nevertheless, he could be eminently practical now and then, especially in mechanics. "Nathanael, Nathanael! just look here. This is the very contrivance that would have suited Brian in his old clay-pits. See!"
Dugdale, who was allowed to make what use he liked of the library, discovered 80 of these volumes in loose bundles, and had them bound. But they were still practically useless for want of proper descriptions and indices, till Planta, keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum, published his descriptive catalogue in 1802. Although not without faults, it has never been superseded.
"E h, my child!" said Duke Dugdale, turning his mild benevolent looks on the flushed face beside him. "Don't'ee try that, don't'ee, now! When people once set themselves rolling down-hill they never stop till they get to the bottom. It's always so in this world." Agatha laughed more loudly. She wished her husband to hear how merry she was. She talked incessantly to Mr.
And still she talked to the fortunate Mr. Trenchard; made herself more agreeable than she had ever believed possible. The elderly beau was fascinated, and even Mr. Dugdale turned from election-papers, to look at his fair sister-in-law with genuine admiration now and then nodding to Harrie, as if to see what she thought of this new light that had shot across their country hemisphere. At which Mrs.
Hardly were there men enough to receive it, or room sufficient to stow it; and many with regret were obliged to carry back their offerings, and wait till the treasurers could find leisure to receive them; such zeal animated the pious partisans of the parliament, especially in the city. * Whitlocke, p. 57. Rush. vol. v. p. 717. Dugdale, p. 93. May, book 11. p. 54. Vicar's God in the Mount.
Dugdale, we can't wait all day," said the officer. "Well, will thee read it for me?" returned the Quaker. The officer complied, and the man in drab said, "Yes, thee may go in, now. I am inclined to throw no obstacles in the way of the execution of the law of the land." On approaching the door, the men found some forty or fifty nails in it, in the way of their progress.
Anne stayed behind, conversing with the old woman who showed the house. She and Mr. Harper had pointedly avoided any private speech with one another. "I declare there is Duke!" cried Mrs. Dugdale suddenly. "Just look at him, meandering up and down the town." Does yours? I beg your pardon since you are watching him as if you thought he were running away.
"But I'll not give him up, even now!" exclaimed Ryan, when this conviction had fairly forced itself upon us. "Come down below, Dugdale, and let us reason this thing out." We accordingly descended to our snug little cabin and seated ourselves at the table, Ryan producing a sheet of paper, a scale, and a pencil wherewith to graphically illustrate our line of reasoning.
Only a cursory glance did he bestow upon these inanimate things, for his attention was immediately wrapped up in the lone figure sitting back of the big desk, the factor of the whole region, Alexander Gregory, the mysterious man whose past seemed to be connected in some way with that of their new Canadian chum, Owen Dugdale.
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