United States or Equatorial Guinea ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
'Is your wife upstairs, Mr. Hewett? Jane asked, when he had nodded sullenly in reply to her greeting. 'Yes; and somebody else too as could have been dispensed with. There's another mouth to feed. 'No, there ain't, cried a woman's voice just behind him. Jane recognised the speaker, a Mrs. Griffin, who lived in the house and was neighbourly to Pennyloaf. 'There ain't? inquired Bob, gruffly.
Mr. Gladstone attended; Lord Derby, Maine, Hewett, Tyndall, Coleridge. Matthew Arnold elected. March 23rd. Electrical Exhibition at Crystal Palace, with Dr. Mann. April 1st. To Foxholes. Very fine weather. No rain for three months. To Mr. T. Norton Longman Foxholes, April 4th. I like the concluding pages by Froude in the Carlyle book, but I am disappointed in Mrs. Carlyle's letters.
During the engagement known as the Little Inkerman, on the 26th of October Mr Hewett, mate of the Beagle, while in command of a Lancaster gun, was greatly instrumental in the defeat of the Russians.
'I see at once as you was in in mournin', Miss, an' I'm sorry for it. You're lookin' nothing like yourself. I don't know whether it's right to upset you with other people's bothers, but there's that poor Mrs. Hewett in such a state, and I said as I'd run round, 'cause she seems to think there's nobody else can come to her help as you can. I always knew as something o' this kind 'ud be 'appenin'.
Through the day and through the evening Clara Hewett had her place behind Mrs. Tubbs's bar. For daylight wear, the dress which had formerly been her best was deemed sufficient; it was simple, but not badly made, and became her figure. Her evening attire was provided by Mrs. Tubbs, who recouped herself by withholding the promised wages for a certain number of weeks.
Hewett's relapse into unconsciousness made it useless for him to stay, beckoned Amy to follow him out into the area and put money in her hand, begging her to get whatever was needed without troubling her father. He would come again in the morning. Mrs. Hewett died just before daybreak without a pang, as though death had compassion on her.
At a little after ten o'clock tonight John Hewett and the children were in bed; he too, weary in mind and body, would gladly have gone upstairs, but he lingered from one five minutes to the next, his heart sinking at the certainty that he would find Clara in sleepless misery which he had no power to allay.
Eagles withdrew into her own room; Amy went to the door. A tall figure, so wrapped and veiled that nothing but the womanly outline could be discerned, entered, supported by John Hewett. 'Is there a light in the other room, Amy? John inquired in a thick voice. 'Yes, father. He led the muffled form into the chamber where Amy and Annie slept.
The first step of Admiral Hewett and General Graham on their arrival at Suakim was to issue a proclamation calling upon all the tribesmen to leave Osman Digma and to come in and make their submission, promising protection and pardon to all who surrendered. This proclamation was backed by a letter by the Sheik Morghani, who was held in the highest estimation for his holiness.
"Eben Small," she said, as she shook her fingers in his face, "you're a disgrace to the community! Now, not a word! Don't speak! I know what you've been doing, you and my husband and Elnathan Hewett! You've been drinking hard cider at Rufus Applesnack's store! I'm going to take Eli home, and I'll give him a dressing down he won't soon forgit! I tell ye not to speak! You ain't gut nuthin' to say!"
Word Of The Day