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Goldsborough's chapter of petty troubles was not yet ended; for the driver of the second taxi stupidly drove to the wrong address, landing his fare at a house on West Sixty-third Street, clear across Central Park and nearly halfway across town from Mrs. Hadley-Smith's home.
Goldsborough's business, and her son coming by my appointment thither, I did tell him our resolution as to her having her estate reconveyed to her. Hither also came my brother, and before Mr. Moore I did advise and counsel him about his match, and how we had all been abused by Mr. Cooke's folly.
Goldsborough's business, and her son coming by my appointment thither, I did tell him our resolution as to her having her estate reconveyed to her. Hither also came my brother, and before Mr. Moore I did advise and counsel him about his match, and how we had all been abused by Mr. Cooke's folly.
The morning was beautiful; the sunrise came in clouds of glory; there was as yet no taint of battle in the purity of the air. It was a lovely day for a sea fight. Frank climbed into the rigging to observe. At ten o'clock Goldsborough's gunboats could be seen making their way, one by one, cautiously, through the narrow channel between marshy islands into Croatan Sound. There were nineteen of them.
"My commander, Captain Benton, was master of the Mary Hollins at the time she was captured by that pirate. He is now acting volunteer lieutenant in the navy of the United States, and commands one of the finest vessels in Flag-officer Goldsborough's squadron." Marcy Gray had never been more amazed in his life. The profound silence that reigned in the room for a minute or two after Mr.
Mark Goodwin, who of course got his ideas from his father, declared that they would not act that way much longer; for as soon as the Federal fleet at Fortress Monroe had been disposed of, Commodore Buchanan, the gallant commander of the Virginia, would have his choice of two courses of action: he could not carry coal enough to run up and lay the city of New York under contribution, but he could reduce Fortress Monroe and bombard Washington, or he could come South, scatter Goldsborough's fleet, and recapture Pamlico and Albemarle sounds.
"Well then, barring these slight clews which to my way of thinking really aren't clews at all and when you have eliminated the circumstance of Goldsborough's having paid perfectly proper attentions to both of them simultaneously, what is there to justify the belief that one or the other must be guilty?" Miss Smith's voice still carried a suggestion of scepticism. "I'm coming to that.
Pedley about Mr. Goldsborough's business and Mr. Weaver's, but he was gone out, and so I with Mr.
But early Wednesday morning more than three weeks after the arrival of the expedition at the inlet the signals to weigh anchor and set sail were given. Commodore Goldsborough's gunboat took the lead. Other vessels of the naval squadron followed. Then came the transports a goodly spectacle. "''Twere wuth ten years of peaceful life, one glance at our array," observed the poetical Tucket.
Pedley about Mr. Goldsborough's business and Mr. Weaver's, but he was gone out, and so I with Mr.
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