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"You arrested the late Lord Hartledon for his brother," observed Mr. Carr, with a careless smile. "I heard of it. I suppose you did not know them apart." "I had never set eyes on either of them before," returned Gorton; unconsciously confirming a point in the barrister's mind; which, however, was already sufficiently obvious. "The man I wanted to find was named Gordon.
But I have escaped from my bonds; and the Lord has raised up a friend for his servant, even the Indian Passaconaway, whose son I assisted, but a little time ago, to escape from his captors." "Can it be?" sobbed Mary, "can it be? Richard, our own Richard, following the tribe of Gorton, the Familist!
There are many caves of the same kind in different parts of Scotland. I need only instance those of Gorton, near Rosslyn, in a scene well known to the admirers of romantic nature. The light within the eave was a dusky twilight at the entrance, which failed altogether in the inner recesses.
He did not reply for some time; and when he did, it was in low and humble tones. "My lord, I hope you'll pardon my rough thoughts and ways, which haven't been used to such as you and the sight of that boy put me up, for reasons of my own. As to Gorton I never did hear him speak of the thing you mention.
Such as scrawling with chalk on Hanlon's room door, "Super's pet"; continually upsetting Hanlon's beverage cup, or "accidentally" dropping things in Hanlon's plate of food. The young SS man could have moved to another place at the table, but he wouldn't give the big guard that satisfaction. But one of Gorton's tricks backfired to such an extent that it had disastrous results for Gorton himself.
In the summer of 1640 Patuxet was marked off as a separate township; and in 1643 Samuel Gorton and others, fleeing from the wrath of Massachusetts, made a settlement called Shawomet, or Warwick, about twelve miles distant from Providence. The tendency of these various towns was to combine in a commonwealth, but on account of their separate origin the process of union was slow.
He does not seem to be in concealment, and gave me his address when I asked him for it." According to Mr. Carr's wish, the man Gorton was brought to his chambers the following morning by Taylor. To the barrister's surprise, a well-dressed and really rather gentlemanly man entered. He had been accustomed to picturing this Gorton as an Arab of London life.
He soon began to miss a number of familiar faces, while at the same time he observed, with great satisfaction, many for whom he had heretofore looked in vain; some of them the young men who had been induced to spend a social evening with him each week in his study, and among them was Guy Gorton.
Gorton returned in 1648 with a letter from Warwick, as Lord Admiral and head of the parliamentary commission on plantation affairs, ordering Massachusetts to cease molesting him and his people, and he named the plantation Warwick after his patron.
Oliver laid his fingers on the open telegram in Cobb's hand, and said, in a positive tone: "He will not rob this man of his rights, Mr. Cobb." "It's not that! It is the other way. The attorneys of the Gorton Company refuse to rob your father of HIS rights.
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