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The same party who wrote this epistle also framed another in imitation of Mr Sullivan's hand-writing, in which Mr Sullivan acquainted the Colonel, that having been informed by a mutual friend that he had been in error relative to Colonel Ellice's behaviour of the night before, he begged to withdraw the challenge, and apologise for having suspected the colonel of incivility, etcetera.
Peabody; and to Glenquoich Ed. Ellice's. The Elchos, Sir F. and Lady Grey, and Lowe there. 31st. Excursion from Glenquoich to Loch Hourn. Then by Oban to Glasgow. Visit to the Belhavens at Wishaw, September 4th, and to Abington. Home on the 10th. September 15th. Torry Hill. Shooting there for some days. 17th. Mr. That excursion to Loch Hourn was his last. To Mr. Dempster
She watched him, and saw that his eyes were following Joan with that look of strange, dog-like devotion that Connie remembered with a start she had herself surprised in Ellice's eyes before now. And as she watched, so watched another, herself almost forgotten as she sat in a corner of the room.
Captain Hastings will tell you how much may be done even by one steam-vessel, commanded by you, and directing the operations of the fire-vessels. On such a topic I should not have the presumption to enlarge to you. As to the American frigates, it is Mr. Ellice's decided opinion, as well as my own, that you should have the money instead of the frigates.
They named their dolls after one another, and many a time your ma brought her wax doll to our house, for me to dress it just like Miss Ellice's, 'cause I was the seamstus in our family, and I always humored the childun about their doll clothes. They had their candy pullins, and their birthday frolics, and their shetlan' ponies no bigger 'an dogs, and, oh Lord! what blessed happy times them was!
"To say my fastidious relatives want me to go home, which would mean leaving you behind." She looked at him searchingly, and then laughed. "And you won't go?" "That's the message I sent." Ellice's face softened, though there was a hint of indecision in it. "You're all right, Cyril, only a bit of a fool." "A bit?" he said dryly. "I'm the whole blamed hog. But enough of that.
The same party who wrote this epistle also framed another in imitation of Mr Sullivan's handwriting, in which Mr Sullivan acquainted the colonel, that having been informed by a mutual friend that he had been in error relative to Colonel Ellice's behaviour of the night before, he begged to withdraw the challenge, and apologise for having suspected the colonel of incivility, &c.
Sez I, 'Who'? Sez she, 'His granddaughter; that is Ellice's chile'. Sez I, 'How do you know so much'? Sez she, 'I was darning them liberry curtains, and I couldn't help hearing the wrangle'. Sez I, 'You picked a oncommon handy time to tackle them curtains; they must be mighty good to cure the ear-itch'. She axed me if I didn't see the family favor in the 'oman's face; and I tole her no, but I would see for myself.
He was a man of good education and gentlemanly manners, and had worked his way up in the merchant service, step by step, until he obtained the command of a West India trader. A few years previous to the period in which our tale opens, an event occurred which altered the course of Captain Ellice's life, and for a long period plunged him into the deepest affliction.
It meant that she did not want to go back by the same road with the chance of seeing those two again. Ellice's cheeks were burning, and her eyes were bright with anger. Joan Meredyth had cut her, and it seemed to her that Johnny had aided and abetted. Then she happened to glance at Hugh Alston, and intuition prompted her. "I think you know her," she said quickly. "Yes, I I know her."