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"No one shall come between us," cried the poor lad; "she is my promised wife." Then Malcolm's manner changed and became more resolute. "It will be a wrench, of course," he returned; "desperate diseases require desperate remedies. But, Cedric, listen to me. If you refuse to take my advice you will repent it all your life. If you go to Gresham Gardens to-morrow you will be a lost man.
I will tell you the truth, Patience. I can never be in that house again till Frank Gresham is a married man, or till I am about to be a married woman. I do not think they have treated me well, but I will not treat them ill." "I am sure you will not do that," said Miss Oriel. "I will endeavour not to do so; and, therefore, will go to none of their fetes! No, Patience."
He spoke with a spirit given by strong passion long repressed, and with a decision of character which his modesty and reserve of manner had, till now, prevented from appearing. "Did he consider," Mr. Gresham asked, "what he expected Miss Panton to sacrifice for him?" "Yes, fortune, not duty duty he could never have asked her to sacrifice; he could not have esteemed her if she had sacrificed duty.
Well, at our friend Courtney's house-party, Gresham was all for Birchard to handle this business; fairly forced him on us, don't you know; but on Tuesday he came to us much pained, I assure you, and in the greatest confidence told us he was sure the beggar was not the man for the place. Been mixed up in a rotten money scandal or so, don't you know."
`Old Hankey Pankey' caught up the telescope that Mr Dabchick had just deposited on the slab, putting it to his eye. "Yes, they are dhows sure enough, Gresham," he said to the first lieutenant, after a brief inspection of the craft, which were stealing past us under the loom of the land far away to the westward.
Nor was he a man of so mean a spirit as to be satisfied with mere wealth. He desired also place and station, and gracious countenance among the great ones of the earth. Hence had come his adherence to the de Courcys; hence his seat in Parliament; and hence, also, his perhaps ill-considered match with Miss Gresham.
"Where are you hurt, my love?" said Mr. Gresham, who came instantly, on hearing the noise of someone falling downstairs. "Where are you hurt, my dear?" "Here, papa," said the little girl, touching her ankle, which she had decently covered with her gown. "I believe I am hurt here, but not much," added she, trying to rise; "only it hurts me when I move."
Sometime afterwards, Wilkins, Wallis, and Goddard, being removed to Oxford, carried on the same design there by stated meetings, and adopted into their society Dr. Ward, Dr. Bathurst, Dr. Petty, and Dr. Willis. The Oxford society coming to London, in 1659, joined their friends, and augmented their number, and, for some time, met in Gresham college.
Gresham; "the application of that rule in dealing with the negro would solve the whole problem." "Slavery," said Mrs. Leroy, "is dead, but the spirit which animated it still lives; and I think that a reckless disregard for human life is more the outgrowth of slavery than any actual hatred of the negro." "The problem of the nation," continued Dr.
It must be Mr Gresham after that. And, moreover, it must be Miss Thorne as well." "I'll be shot if it shall, Mary." "Well; I can't say that I shall be shot if it be not so; but if it be not so, if you do not agree that it shall be so, I shall be turned out of Greshamsbury." "What! you mean my mother?" said Frank.
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