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The King himself was seated beyond his great table, with the rest standing about him, five in number. On his right was Sir George Jeffreys in his rich suit, just as he had come from some entertainment, his handsome face flushed with wine, yet none the less full of wit and attention.
"Maybe the picture on Jeffreys' barn will suggest something." Again they were off at a run. It was not far to the barn, where they all squatted on the ground, nonplussed at the picture of half a dozen funny little animals balancing toy balloons on their noses. "What are they?" Jerry asked. "They're some kind of a fish," returned Danny promptly. "Fish nothing!" exclaimed Chris.
Immediately before him the Maypole stretched skyward, its top still ornamented with a few fluttering rags of weather-bleached ribbon, mementoes of the festivities that had ushered in the fast-fading summer. On his left, with its front to the river, was a great house with its courts and gardens, and Master Jeffreys whispered,
So the Paignton man and his Plymouth comrades shared the pie amongst themselves, the two others looking about and noting the other occupants of the inn parlour. Some of these were known by repute to Jeffreys, and he gave Morgan information concerning them. The pie-dish stood empty. Johnnie expressed an opinion that apples were roasting somewhere.
This ground lies off of the northeast edge of Jeffreys Bank and is often considered a part of it, but there seems to lie deep water between. This is one of three grounds of the name in these waters. It is about 7 miles long, E. by N. and W. by S., and about 4 miles wide.
Jeffreys, 'that he would do his best to support the part which his brother had taken, and came to town with that resolution on 'Friday in the forenoon' but he found that Charles Yorke had been taken very ill that morning. 'When I saw him on the evening of the 19th he was in bed and too much disordered to be talked with.
Again how should we answer to the justices of the peace, or perhaps even to Lord Jeffreys, for having, without even a warrant, taken the law into our own hands, and abated our nuisance so forcibly? And then, what was to be done with the spoil, which was of great value; though the diamond necklace came not to public light? For we saw a mighty host of claimants already leaping up for booty.
In consequence of this information, Sir Bindon Blood cancelled the orders for the passage of the Rambat Pass and instructed General Jeffreys to enter the Mamund Valley and thoroughly chastise the tribesmen. I was allowed to go back with the native officer's escort to the 2nd Brigade, in order to witness the operations which had been ordered.
'Keep a guard upon your words and upon your actions? Jeffreys answered, in a menacing voice. 'See that you are not too zealous in the cause of the scum of the earth. How now, then? What do these one and fifty villains desire to say for themselves? What is their lie? Gentlemen of the jury, I beg that ye will take particular notice of the cut-throat faces of these men.
"Were he even more criminal than he is, surely the death of one in the family is sufficient to satisfy the ends of justice." "I would stamp out the whole brood of vipers, could I catch them," said Jeffreys. Poor Alice felt her heart sink, but she was not to be defeated.
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