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She did so, raising herself, though with some exertion, and re-assuming the sensible, straightforward, business-like ways which through her long life of solitary independence had caused Anne Valery to be often called, as Duke Dugdale called her, "such a wise woman!" "I should like very much to see all things settled in the Harper family.
Mr Dugdale, just slip below and let the master know that the land is in sight on the port bow, bearing east-half-south, distant twenty miles."
"I told you my name was Owen Dugdale, and that I had always lived up in this country. Well, that is hardly so, for when I was a little chap I remember being in Montreal with my parents for a spell; but they came back here and I've never gone out of the woods since. "My mother taught me all I know, for she was a lady, and had been educated in a convent school in that city.
So make haste the Squire is very particular as to time, you know!" Nodding to them both with a smile which diffused such an extraordinary light over the uncomely face that Agatha was quite startled and began to reconsider her first impression regarding it, "Duke" Dugdale turned to walk on; but just as the horse was starting, came back again.
They shouted themselves fairly hoarse over a brilliant dash on the part of Captain Mossman, whereby he outwitted his opponents, and, despite all Thad's efforts to block the play, shot the puck home in the cage for the first well-won goal of the game. Later on Owen Dugdale repeated the performance in almost as masterly a manner. The applause was, if anything, a shade more uproarous.
The waters, which resemble mild Epsom salts, first brought the village into notice in 1794, although the existence of mineral springs at Leamington Priory had been recorded by Camden and Dugdale. In 1794 people drank harder than they do now, read less, played cards more, were altogether "faster," and had more need of purifying waters and pump-room amusements.
Accepting the statements of a previous chronicler, Dugdale observes of the members of the Middle Temple under Henry "They have no order for their apparell; but every man may go as him listeth, so that his apparell pretend no lightness or wantonness in the wearer; for, even as his apparell doth shew him to be, even so he shall be esteemed among them."
Other orders made in the reign of James I., and similar enactments passed by the Inns in still more recent periods, can be readily found on reference to Dugdale and later writers upon the usages of lawyers.
Stay, here are a few lines; a codicil, I fancy, affixed with seals to the body of the will I can hardly make it out." And as Mr. Harper perused it, his wife observed his countenance change. He let the paper drop, and sat silent. "What is it? Read,", cried Harrie Dugdale. "I cannot Anne, will you?
* Dugdale, p. 87. Clarendon, vol. ii. p. 412. v Clarendon, vol. li. p. 413. The very women were seized with the same rage.
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