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"I simply want to feel that they have a man about them." "They will have a man at any rate they have the devoted Lovelock." "That 's just why I want them to have another. He has only an eye to Miss Evers, who, by the way, is extremely bored with him. You look after the others. You have made yourself very agreeable to them, and they like you extremely."
"We have had a most lovely night; we sat all the evening on Mrs. Vivian's balcony, eating ices. To sit on a balcony, eating ices that 's my idea of heaven." "With an angel by your side," said Captain Lovelock. "You are not my idea of an angel," retorted Blanche. "I 'm afraid you 'll never learn what the angels are really like," said the Captain. "That 's why Miss Evers got Mrs.
Angela glanced about her, without meeting his eye. "They seem to have gone." Miss Evers strolled on, and her Captain of course kept pace with her; so that Bernard and Miss Vivian were left standing together. He looked at her a moment in silence, but her eye still avoided his own. "You are remarkably inconsistent," Bernard presently said.
Yet I did not know; every moment gave me a new point of view. On my remarking, genuinely enough, that I only wished I could go with them, Bob Evers echoed the wish so heartily that I could not but believe that he meant what he said. On his side, in that case, there could be absolutely nothing. And yet, again, when Mrs.
He exclaimed that Blanche Evers was exactly the sort of girl that men of Gordon Wright's stamp always ended by falling in love with, and that poor Gordon knew very much better what he was about in this case than he had done in trying to solve the deep problem of a comfortable life with Angela Vivian.
Evers, however, seemed very confident. "We'll be through in another two minutes " he began, and then came a terrific shock, and both he and I were jerked off the footrope, and toppled over the yard on to the bellying foresail! We both rolled down on top of the windlass, and landed almost in each others arms, half dazed.
Chew, who came to Virginia in 1620 and became a prominent merchant, also had property at Jamestown. Still another prominent figure at Hog Island was Ralph Hamor. In May, 1624, he filed suit in the general court against Robert Evers. It would appear that John Bailey received a grant from Governor Yeardley about 1617 for 490 acres on Hog Island.
It should be noted, perhaps, that no acreage figure was shown for the "Divident" of Captain Samuel Mathews and that of Captain John Hurleston. All were "planted." Only the acreage of John Dodd, Francis Chapman, Thomas Gates, John Utie and Robert Evers were not "planted." George Sandys was named resident treasurer of the Colony and came to Virginia in the ship George in 1621.
The father opened it, placed a little white enclosure by the side of his coffee-cup for further inspection, and then read the letter full of "darlings" and "for evers" with the severe attention he would have given a business letter.
He approached Blanche Evers, smiling and dandling his body a little, and making her two or three jocular bows. "Well, I hope you have lost every penny you put on the table!" said the young girl, by way of response to his obeisances. He began to laugh and repeat them. "I don't care what I lose, so long so long " "So long as what, pray?" "So long as you let me sit down by you!"
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