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Hanbury Court is a vast red-trick house at least, it is cased in part with red bricks; and the gate-house and walls about the place are of brick, with stone facings at every corner, and door, and window, such as you see at Hampton Court. There was a prior's parlour, I know only we called it Mrs.

Hanbury, who was a prominent stockholder in the Ohio Company, and who traded largely in Virginia, saw it for his interest that the troops should pass that way; and is said to have brought the Duke to this opinion. A writer of the time thinks that if they had landed in Pennsylvania, forty thousand pounds would have been saved in money, and six weeks in time.

'Oh, well, I suppose he does, in a kind of way, though he doesn't take much trouble about saying it. It isn't of much consequence; we shall have plenty of time afterwards. Mind, if only Jack Hanbury could get invited by the Kenyons, and I were to dance two or three times with him, and Frank get to hear of it, I suppose there would be a noble rampage: then he might speak out a little more.

"He was consul at Nice, and had a villa there when he died. And people said he had an unusually brilliant career before him. My aunt and uncle brought me up, and my cousin, Mrs. Hanbury, Edith's mother, and Mary's, sent me here to school." Honora breathed easier after this confession, but it was long before sleep came to her that night.

He had married Sir John Temple's daughter. King died in 1716, but the grant was renewed to Palmerston and his son Henry for life. He was raised to the peerage as Baron Temple of Mount Temple, and Viscount Palmerston of Palmerston, in March, 1722-1723. Sir Charles Hanbury Williams called him "Little Broadbottom Palmerston."

"I am sure I hope so," said Adair, who did not quite understand the thoughts which were pressing through his messmate's head. "We will fight away as long as we have hands to fight with and an ounce of gunpowder for our muskets. It was a craft like that brigantine out there captured poor Hanbury, and murdered him and his boat's crew.

Then he repaired to the Daily Telegraph offices to dictate his notes, so that the huge rolls of printed paper might announce to the world to-morrow that the first victims of the terrible war had fallen on the streets of New York. The factory of Horace Hanbury & Son was not shut down.

With several volleys the soldiers drove the gang of foreign looters up Broadway, where a volley discharged near the spot where Gerald Hanbury had been murdered, dispersed the last compact mass of plunderers. In the meantime the men had reached Mr. Hanbury's house and Robertson rang the bell.

Jack Hanbury can only be described in the words of the American poet: he is a commodious ass. Now this conjecture of Mr. Tom's about the cause of Madge's disappearance was only a piece of gay facetiousness. It never did really occur to him that any one that any creature with a head capable of being broken would have the wild audacity to run away with one of his sisters, while he, Mr.

Lathom's place to wait upon her, and she bade the butler, who had a smack of the gamekeeper in him, very unlike our own powdered venerable fine gentleman at Hanbury, tell his master, with her compliments, that she wished to speak to him.