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We bade good-by to our hosts with the most grateful and the warmest feeling towards them, after a month of delightful companionship and the experience of a hospitality almost too generous to accept, but which they were pleased to look upon as if we were doing them a favor. On the 29th of July we found ourselves once more in London. We found our old quarters all ready and awaiting us. Mrs.
Ever since Mike had received Strachan's answer and Adair had announced on the notice-board that on Saturday, July the twentieth, Sedleigh would play Wrykyn, the team had been all on the jump. It was useless for Adair to tell them, as he did repeatedly, on Mike's authority, that Wrykyn were weak this season, and that on their present form Sedleigh ought to win easily.
George Carr, writing to Lord Arlington on December 14, 1665, says: "Hearing some Frenchmen discourse in New England . . . of a great trade of beaver, and afterward making proof of what they had said, he thought them the best present he could possibly make his Majesty and persuaded them to come to England." Colonel Richard Nicolls, writing on July 31, 1665, says he "supposes Col. Geo.
It is a fact, which will probably never be appreciated outside of the immediate confines of Wall Street, that the Exchange was unexpectedly thrown into a position where the interests of the whole country were put in its hands, and that through the prompt and energetic action of the thirty-six men who faced the awful responsibility on July 31st financial America was saved.
Dick Sand was, therefore, extremely anxious, when a sudden change of direction took place on the morning of the 14th of July. Little Jack was in the front of the boat, and he was gazing through the thatch, when a large expanse of water appeared on the horizon. "The sea!" he shouted. At this word Dick Sand trembled, and came close to little Jack. "The sea?" he replied.
It was on the last Fourth of July that she had meant to come to the Gap. Truly civilization was spreading throughout the hills. "Who's Mart?" "Mart's my brother," said little Buck. "He was over to the Gap not long ago, an' he come back mad as hops " He stopped suddenly, and in such a way that I turned my head, knowing that caution had caught Buck. "What about?"
The legislature sat through that whole day, morning and evening; adjourned; met the next day, and sat through all that day, morning and evening, and did a great deal of paper business. It went through the forms of choosing a Supreme Court, and transacting other business of a similar kind, and on the evening of the 4th of May it adjourned, to meet again on the first Monday of July, in Providence,
There were, it should be repeated, two other principal armies besides that of the Potomac: the army of the Ohio, of which General Buell was given command in July; and that of the West, to which General Halleck was appointed, though Frémont seems to have retained independent command in Missouri.
On the 9th of July my husband sent Don Pedro Rocca, Master of the Ceremonies, a gold chain, which cost four-score pounds; and, on the 22nd of July, the merchants of Alicant sent us a piece of purple damask, of one hundred and thirty yards, for a present.
What man may lay bare the soul of England as it was stirred during those days of July when suddenly, without any previous warning, loud enough to reach the ears of the mass of people, there came the menace of a great, bloody war, threatening all that had seemed so safe and so certain in our daily life?
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