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Fitz what you may call him up on the frontier, the Brigadier gentleman Lady Dolly!" "You were well chaperoned." "And my dear he didn't ask a single Sister!" Hilda turned upon her a face which appeared still to glow with the stimulus of the Archdiaconal function. "And it was wicked considering the occasion I dropped the character. I let myself out!" "You didn't shock the Archdeacon?"

I am compelled to look ahead at questions likely to be sprung upon us for action, and the fact is, I prepare for debate on ten subjects where I actually take part in but one. For example, it seemed certain that the Fitz John Porter case would be discussed in the House, and I devoted the best of two weeks to a careful 're-examination' of the old material, and a study of the new.

"Indeed, waiter?" said I, feeling quite proud of his thus speaking to me as if I were a grown-up person. "But who was this gentleman, old Fitz what did you call him?" "Old Sir Titus Fitzblazes, sir," glibly replied the coffee-room factotum, flicking off a fly as he spoke from the table-cloth whereon he had just arranged all the paraphernalia of our breakfast.

Some of us will see him privately, and post him up as to Fitz's relations and position, and hire him to come up to school, and inquire for Fitz, representing himself as his cousin. Of course Fitz will deny it indignantly, but he will persist and show that he knows all about the family." "Good! Splendid!" exclaimed the boys laughing. "Won't Fitz be raving?" "There's no doubt about that.

But their trust and faith in him were as unshaken as ever. A glimpse of his feelings at this time is shown in one of his letters written a few weeks later, which I will give in its proper place. The day after his return to Richmond he write to my mother: "Richmond, December 1, 1867. "My Dear Mary: I returned here yesterday with Custis, Robert and Fitz. Lee.

In using the singular pronoun, he expressly ignored the presence of the young printer. "No, that wasn't all. My friend Harry has been amusing me with some tricks which he learned while he was travelling round with Professor Henderson, the ventriloquist and magician." "Really, he is quite accomplished," said Fitz, with a covert sneer. "Pretty company Oscar has taken up with!" he thought.

He had been assigned to duty on the staff of General Fitzhugh Lee, and it was delightful to hear his enthusiasm on the subject of that gay and gallant officer. "I tell you he's a trump, old fellow," quoth Tom, with ardor. "He's as brave as steel, a first-rate officer, a thorough gentleman, generous, kind, and as jolly as a lark! Give me Fitz Lee to fight with, or march with, or hear laugh!

Tragic was Totopotomoy, for there we lost Latane Hampden-like, noble, dead for his Cause. "At Old Church broke up meeting. Faith! 'twas a pity But indigo azure was pulpit and pew! Fitz Lee did the job. Sent his love to Fitz Porter. Good Lord! Of Mac's Army the noble review! "There isn't anything our horses can't do. "Tunstall Station was all bubbly white with wagons.

And she said: "Would it be good for me?" and laughed. "Yes," he said firmly, "it would." "Why?" she asked. "To-morrow at four," said Fitz, "I shall come for you and take you around the Cliff Walk and tell you." She made no promise. But the next day, when Fitz called at the cottage which Mrs.

Under the circumstances, however, he could not refuse to contribute to Colonel Fitz Gibbon's list; and it is recorded that when one of his sons called upon him for the amount which he had subscribed, he handed over the sum with justifiable petulance, saying: "There, go and make one great fool of yourself again."