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Notwithstanding these orders, however, Antiochus sailed out and brought the Peloponnesian fleet to an engagement off Notium, in which the Athenians were defeated with the loss of 15 ships, and Antiochus himself was slain. Among the Athenian armament itself great dissatisfaction was growing up against Alcibiades.
But henceforth this feeling was to disappear. This crowning sorrow in the family wrought more cordial feelings. Crabbe was one of those who had known and been kind to their child, and such were now, "Peculiar people death had made them dear." And henceforth the engagement between the lovers was frankly accepted.
The object of returning to Meroee was to "meet Sir Marcus;" and I promised to be back in plenty of time to organize the return trip to Cairo. My departure, therefore, was all in the day's work: and the great sensation was Mrs. East's engagement.
The siege was weakly conducted during the winter a series of skirmishes from the bastilles or towers thrown up by the besiegers led to little result on either side; and it was not till the month of February that a decisive engagement took place.
The reason why I do not wish you to say a word about our engagement is, that were it known it would tie my hands terribly and render it so impossible for me to take any strong ground, that I should be altogether powerless." "Do entirely as you think best, Cuthbert.
It was there our acquaintance begun, for my sister and me was often staying with my uncle, and it was there our engagement was formed, though not till a year after he had quitted as a pupil; but he was almost always with us afterwards.
The cleverest of these was an adaptation of an old Jacobite ditty, itself a cutting satire which a hundred years before had taunted the Georgian general, Sir John Cope, with the excess of caution that led him to shun an engagement, withdraw his forces over night, and leave the country open to the Pretender to march southward. The mocking verses thus challenged the defaulter Hey!
"Hush, or I shall begin to think you are ashamed because you liked me or thought you did." "But I do like you. Next to Madeline there is no one I like so much. But, but, you see, it is different." "Of course it is. And it ought to be. Does her mother do her people know of the engagement?" He hesitated momentarily. "No-o," he admitted, "they don't yet.
Something of these thoughts he managed to put into words: 'But you're engaged to 'I've broken my engagement with Mr Pickering. 'Great Scot! When? 'To-night. I found out his true character. He is cruel and treacherous. Something happened it may sound nothing to you, but it gave me an insight into what he really was.
But if you, my dear mother, should be in any degree tempted to be hard on Constance Quayle, I beg you to consider your own engagement, your own marriage, my father's " Here Katherine interrupted him, rising in sudden revolt. "No, no, Richard," she said, "that is more, my dear, than I can either permit or can bear.
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