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I hear this night that Sir J. Lawson was buried late last night at St. Dunstan's by us, without any company at all, and that the condition of his family is but very poor, which I could be contented to be sorry for, though he never was the man that ever obliged me by word or deed. 3rd.
Such a nice girl as she might have been, too, if she'd been brought up in Figtree Court! Dunstan's church, and deliver them into the hands of their husbands." With such reflections as these did Mr.
However, not satisfied with his own opinion, he decided to seek a little expert advice on the subject, and to that end he went the following morning to his father's old friend and his own former employer, Homer Dunstan, the corporation attorney, whom he knew to be an authority on land law. He sent in his name by Dunstan's stenographer, and presently Dunstan appeared in the reception room.
Besides, to tell you a secret, his voice had a twang in it in the dialect I mean reminded me of a little tongue, which I think sweeter sweeter than the last toll of St. Dunstan's will sound, on the day that I am shot of my indentures Ha! you guess who I mean, Frank?" "Not I, indeed," answered Tunstall. "Scotch Janet, I suppose, the laundress." "Off with Janet in her own bucking-basket! No, no, no!
The genial mocking little smile was gone from his face now, for Dunstan's query had brought him back from the land of improbabilities into the realm of his most ardent day-dream. He raised his hand in unconscious imitation of every zealot that had preceded him down the ages; the light of the visionary who already sees the fulfillment of his dreams blazed in his big kind brown eyes.
As Mr Burchell had hinted to us the day before, that he was making some proposals of marriage, to Miss Wilmot, my son George's former mistress, this a good deal damped the heartiness of his reception: but accident, in some measure, relieved our embarrasment; for one of the company happening to mention her name, Mr Thornhill observed with an oath, that he never knew any thing more absurd than calling such a fright a beauty: 'For strike me ugly, continued he, 'if I should not find as much pleasure in choosing my mistress by the information of a lamp under the clock at St Dunstan's. At this he laughed, and so did we: the jests of the rich are ever successful.
He had drawn himself away from all familiar haunts, and shut himself in his lonely rooms with the perpetual trouble of his mind for his sole companion, until he had grown as nervous as habitual solitude will eventually make the strongest and the wisest man, however he may vaunt himself of his strength and wisdom. The clock of the Temple Church, and the clocks of St. Dunstan's, St.
So after dinner I to the French Church, but that being too far begun I came back to St. Dunstan's by six and heard a good sermon, and so home and to my office all, the evening making up my accounts of this month, and blessed be God I have got up my crumb again to L770, the most that ever I had yet, and good clothes a great many besides, which is a great mercy of God to me.
"She is the daughter, I believe, of an English nobleman." "Of the Earl of St. Dunstan's." "Is the Earl of St. Dunstan's a very old family?" "So-so; the sixteenth century. It is on my father's side that we go back back, back, back. The family antiquaries themselves lose breath. At last they stop, panting and fanning themselves, somewhere in the ninth century, under Charlemagne.
Lying in bed or sitting on a hospital chair, unable to see the objects about you, there is a danger of deep depression being occasioned by melancholy brooding. To prevent this, the V.A.D.'s who worked in the St. Dunstan's Ward saw to it that the men were not left too much to themselves, and kindly attention kept me from becoming morbid while waiting for my exchange to St. Dunstan's.
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